四、閱讀測驗【請在下列各題中選出最適當的答案】第一篇：Let children learn to judge their own work. A child learning to talk does not learn by being corrected all thetime. If corrected too much, he will stop talking. He notices a thousand times a day the difference between thelanguage he uses and the language those around him use. Bit by bit, he makes the necessary changes to make hislanguage like other people’s. In the same way, children learn all the other things they learn to do without beingtaught – to talk, run, climb, whistle, ride a bicycle – compare their own performances with those of more skilledpeople, and slowly make the needed changes. But in school, we never give a child a chance to find out his mistakesfor himself, let alone correct them. We do it all for him. We act as if we thought that he would never notice amistake unless it was pointed out to him, or correct it unless he was made to. Soon he becomes dependent on theteacher. Let him do it himself. Let him work out, with the help of other children if he wants it, what this word says,what the answer is to that problem, whether this is a good way of saying or doing this or not.If it is a matter of right answers, as it may be in mathematics or science, give him the answer book. Let himcorrect his own papers. Why should we teachers waste time on such routine work? Our job should be to help thechild when he tells us that he can’t find a way to get the right answer. Let’s end all this nonsense of grades, exams,and marks. Let us throw them all out, and let the children learn what all educated persons must someday learn, howto measure their own understanding, how to know what they know or do not know.Let them get on with this job in the way that seems most sensible to them, with our help as school teachers ifthey ask for it. The idea that there is a body of knowledge to be learnt at school and used for the rest of one’s life isnonsense in a world as complicated and rapidly changing as ours. Anxious parents and teachers say, “But supposethey fail to learn something essential, something they will need to get on in the world?” Don’t worry! If it isessential, they will go out into the world and learn it.
41. What does the author think teachers should NOT do?
(A) They give children correct answers.
(B) They allow children to mark their own work.
(C) They point out children’s mistakes to them.
(D) They encourage children to copy from one another.