六级冲刺备考的改错练习（19）

　　第十九篇： Error Correction 　　Pronouncing a language is a skill. Every normal person is 　　expert in the skill of pronouncing his own language, and --71-- 　　few people are even moderately proficient at pronouncing 　　foreign languages. Now there are many reasons about this, --72-- 　　some obvious, some perhaps not so obvious. But I suggest 　　that the fundamental reason why people in general do not 　　speak foreign languages very better than they do is that --73-- 　　they fail to grasp the true name of the problem of learning 　　to pronounce, and consequently never set about tackling 　　it by the right way. Far too many people fail to realize --74-- 　　that pronounce a foreign language is a skill, one that --75-- 　　needs careful training of a special kind, and one that 　　cannot be acquired by just leaving it to take care of himself. --76-- 　　I think even teachers of language, while recognizing the 　　importance of a good accent, tend to neglect, in their practical 　　teaching, the branch of study concerning with speaking the --77-- 　　language. So the first point I want to make is that English 　　pronunciation must be taught; the teacher may be prepared to --78-- 　　devote some of the lesson time to this, and by his whole 　　attitude to the subject he should get the student to feel 　　that here is a matter worth of receiving his close attention. --79-- 　　So, there should be occasions where other aspects of English, --80-- 　　such as grammar or spelling, are allowed for the moment to 　　take a secondary place.