Passage 48
（2006 福建 D）

There are two main forms of teaching in Nottingham University: seminar （研討會）and lecture.They are very different from the sort of teaching most often used in schools and colleges.

In seminars you will be taught with discussion focusing on a text or topic set in advance in a friendly and informal atmosphere.The purpose is to provide an opportunity to try out new ideas and to think through difficulties with fellow learners.Students develop friendships through groups, as well as learning more about other people's ideas.You can also know your tutors as an individual rather than a face at the end of the room.

Lectures are the most formal.There may be over a hundred in the audience and the lecture will last about fifty minutes.The value of the lecture is that it can present to a large number of people information which is not readily available in books, that it can give you an opportunity to hear a specialist develop a coherent （有條理的）argument, and that it can show visual material to a wide audience.

Your typical week's work will feel strange after school or college since there are fewer timetabled teaching hours.Each week in the first year you may attend about six lectures and four to six seminars or tutorials （輔導）.For the rest of the time you are working on your own, doing the necessary reading in preparation for tutorials or writing seminar papers.When writing an essay or carrying out project work, you can often discuss with your tutor about the title and topic.

1.The purpose of the Passage is ______.

A. to introduce two main forms of teaching

B. to persuade you to try out new ideas

C. to stress the importance of discussion

D. to make you believe that seminar is more helpful

2.One of the values of the lecture is ______.

A. to make friends through groups

B. to learn more about other people's ideas

C. to offer a chance to discuss with a specialist

D. to present to students information not found in books

3.Your typical week's work in the university will feel strange because ______.

A. you may have no project work after class

B. you may give lectures and seminars

C. you may have fewer timetabled teaching hours

D. you may write seminar papers with fellow-learners

4.We can learn from the Passage that ______.

A. seminar is better than lecture

B. lecture is better than seminar

C. seminar is more formal than lecture

D. lecture is more formal than seminar

【重點詞匯】

Nottingham University 諾丁漢大學

lecture n.講座

the sort of 那種

focus on 集中于

try out 試驗

think through 思考……得出結論

tutor n.輔導老師

at the end of 在……后面

audience n.聽眾

available adj.可利用的

visual adj.形象的

in preparation for 為……準備

essay n.隨筆，短文

carry out 完成

【疑難長句】

The value of the lecture is that it can present to a large number of people information which is not readily available in books, that it can give you an opportunity to hear a specialist develop a coherent argument, and that it can show visual material to a wide audience.

這個句子非常長，而且結構比較復雜，屬于典型的疑難長句。理解該句的關鍵在于把握句子的整體結構，該句中，主語是the value of the lecture is，而后面的三個that引導的都是表語從句，具體說明“講座的價值所在”。

（參考譯文）講座的價值在于它能夠給你提供大量在書本上不能夠輕易得到的信息，提供聆聽專家如何進行有條理的論述的機會，其價值還在于它能夠向大量聽眾展示形象的材料。