填空题

Pronouncing a language is a skill. Every normal person is expert in the skill of pronouncing his own language, but few people are even moderately (36) at pronouncing foreign languages. The (37) reason why people in general do not speak foreign languages very much better than they do is that they fail to (38) the true nature of the problem of learning to pronounce, and (39) never set about dealing with it in the right way. For too many people fail to realize that pronouncing a foreign language is a skill, one that needs careful training of a special kind, and one that cannot be (40) by just leaving it to take care of itself, even teachers of language, while recognizing the importance of a good accent, tend to neglect, in their practical teaching, the (41) of study concerned with speaking the language.
So English pronunciation must be taught; teacher should be prepared to devote some of the lesson time to this, and by his whole (42) to the subject should get the student to feel that here is a matter (43) of receiving his close attention. So, (44)
Apart from this, there are two other requirements for the teacher: the first, knowledge; the second, technique. (45) It is possible to get from books some idea of the mechanics of speech, and of what we call general phonetic theory. (46) between the speech habits of English people and those of your students.