题目内容：

Literature is an important part of a total language arts program at all grade levels because of the many benefits it offers.

Literature provides pleasure to listeners and readers.It is a relaxing escape from daily problems,and it fills leisure moments.Making time for recreational reading and using high-quality literature help to develop enthusiastic readers and improve achievement.Developing a love of literature as a recreational activity is possibly the most important outcome of a literature program.

Literature builds experience.Through reading,children expand their horizons through vicarious(引起共鸣的)experiences.They visit new places,gain new experiences,and meet new people.They learn about the past as well as the present and learn about a variety of cultures,including their own.They discover the common goals and similar emotions found in people of all times and places. Nory Ryan's Song by Patricia Reilly,Giff,a hard survival story,is set in Ireland during the potato hunger of I845,and Patricia Polacco's The Butterfly ,deals with Nazis,resistance,and Jewish persecution(迫害)during World War II.

 

Literature provides a language model for those who hear and read it.Good literature exposes children to correct sentence patterns,standard story structures,and varied word usage.Children for whom English is a second language can improve their English with the interesting context,and all children benefit from new vocabulary that is woven into the stories.

Literature develops thinking skills.Discussions of literature bring out reasoning related to sequence;cause and effect; character motivation; predictions;visualization of actions, characters, and settings; critical analysis of the story;and creative responses.

Literature helps children deal with their problems.By finding out about the problems of others through books, children receive insights into dealing with their own problems,a process called bibliotherapy. Children might identify with Gilly,living angrily in a foster home in Katherine Paterson's The Great Gilly Hopkins,or with Mary Alice,a city girl forced to live with her grandma in a“hick town"in Richard Peck's A Year Down Yonder.

1.What is likely to be the most significant consequence of a literature program?

A. The habit of reading for pleasure.    B. The lessons learned from works.

C. The achievements of language skills.    D. The ways of thinking developed by reading.

2.Why are Nory Ryan's Song and The Butterfly mentioned in paragraph 3?

A. To introduce two great masterpieces..

B. To expand children's horizons in literature.

C. To prove literature includes a variety of cultures.

D. To give examples of books that provide such experiences.

3.From the last paragraph we know that literature can be___

A. educational    B. practical

C. changeable    D. reliable

4.What could be the best title of the text?

A. Power of Books    B. Ways of Reading

C. Source of Human Progress    D. Benefits of Literature