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  3. Proper arrangement of classroom space is important to encouraging interaction. Most of us have noticed how important physical se

Proper arrangement of classroom space is important to encouraging interaction. Most of us have noticed how important physical se

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问题    Proper arrangement of classroom space is important to encouraging interaction. Most of us have noticed how important physical setting is to efficiency and comfort in our work. Today’s corporations hire human engineering specialists and spend a considerable amount of time and money to make sure that the physical environments of buildings are fit to the activities of their inhabitants.
   Similarly, college classroom space should be designed to encourage the activity of critical thinking. We may be approaching the twenty-first century, but step into almost any college classroom and you will step back in time at least a hundred years. Desks are normally in straight rows, so students can clearly see the teacher but not all their classmates. The assumption behind such an arrangement is obvious: Everything of importance comes from the teacher.
   With a little imagination and effort, unless desks are fixed to the floor, the teacher can correct this situation and create space that encourages interchange among students. In small or standard-size classes, chairs, desks and tables can be arranged in a variety of ways: circles, U-shapes, or semicircles. The primary goal should be for everyone to be able to see everyone else. Larger classy, particularly those held in lecture halls, unfortunately, allow much less flexibility.
   Arrangement of the classroom should also make it easy to divide students into small groups for discussion or problem-solving exercises. Small classes with movable desks and tables present no problem. Even in large lecture halls, it is possible for students to turn around and form groups of four to six. Breaking a class into small groups provides more opportunities for students to interact with each other, think out loud, and see how other students’thinking processes operate--all these are essential elements in developing new modes of critical thinking.
   In courses that regularly use a small group format, students might be asked to stay in the same groups throughout the course. A colleague of mine allows students to move around during the first two weeks, until they find a group they are comfortable with. He then asks them to stay in the same seat, with the same group, from that time on. This not only creates a comfortable setting for interaction but helps him learn student names and faces.
The underlined expression "step back in time at least a hundred years" ( Para. 2 ) is intended to convey the idea that ______.
选项 A、college classrooms often remind people of their cortege life
B、critical thinking was encouraged even a century ago
C、a hundred years ago, desk arrangement in a classroom was quite different
D、there is not much change in the college educational idea over the past hundred years
答案D
解析 根据文中第二段的第一句中的“Similarly，college classroom space should be designed to encourage the activity of critical of critical thinking．”，可以看出作者建议改变教室现状，使其有利于学生间的交流；又可从第二段的第三句“Desks are normally in straight rows，so students can clearly see the teacher but not all their classmates．”中看出，当前教室桌椅的安排与一个世纪前的一样。由此可断定正确答案为[D]。
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