题目
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I"d like to know about fluency. What can I do to feel better when I"m talking to other people? Do you have
some ways to learn it faster? Please help me!
-Roberto in Brazil
A:
Roberto wants to know how to become more fluent in English, and this is something you want to be able
to do "fast".
First, if you get to meet English speakers much, the important rule is to listen not just to native speakers of
English, but also to very good users of English. If you don"t, then listen to the radio, TV or films in English.
The next step is to notice what it is that speakers of English do, which makes them sound fluent. The first
trick (诀窍) is to probably have confidence. Some people think they might make mistakes. Don"t worry about
that. Your listeners will usually try hard to understand you-a few grammar mistakes aren"t going to worry them.
What you do need to worry about is pronunciation, especially stress (重音). When you learn a new word
or expression, learn it with its stress. Notice how a native speaker says it or look it up in a dictionary.
Another good thing that speakers of English do is to have a few tricks up their sleeves (袖子) for when they
need to give themselves thinking time. Sometimes they use "filler sounds" like er,um and so on.
It is also useful to know how to bring other speakers into your conversation so that you keep them intereste
d-and this is often done by asking questions like "What do you think?" "How do you feel about this?" and so on.
So, to become a fluent speaker, you"ll need to put into practice all these kinds of things. And there"s the key:
practise, practise, practise.
-Susan Fern
B. listen to very good speakers
C. talk to English speakers
D. buy a radio or a TV set
B. expressions
C. dictionaries
D. words
B. To have a secret plan or idea.
C. To hide some tricks into their sleeves.
D. To have sleeves covering their whole arms.
答案
核心考点
举一反三
2 . English is one of the most important languages because many people 3 it, not only in England and
America, 4 in other countries of world. About 375,000,000 people speak it 5 their own language, and
another 375,000,000 use it as 6 language. It is 7 to say how many people are learning it. 8 boys and
girls in schools are trying to do so.
Many English children study French. French is also a very important language. 9 children study German,
Russian, Japanese and Chinese.
What is the best 10 to learn a language? We know that we alllearnt 11 language well when we were 12 .
If we learn a second language in the 13 way, it won"t seem so difficult. What does a small child do? It 14
what people say, and it tries to guess what it hears. When it wants something, it has to 15 it. It is using the
language, 16 in it and talking in it all the time. If people use a second language 17 , they will learn it 18 .
In school, you learn to read, to write, to hear and to speak. It is best to learn all new words through the 19 .
You can read them, spell them and 20 them later.
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| UK schoolchildren score lower than their equals (同龄人) in nine other countries in world knowledge, according to the British Council. In a survey measuring the international viewpoint of young people around the world, British pupils scored slightly lower than those in the US and much lower than those in other European countries. The survey asked 11 to 16-year-olds with household Intemet access in ten countries some questions to learn their attitudes towards language learning and international affairs. Results were scored on an index of 0 to 7. Nigeria came top of the table with 5.15, followed by India and Brazil. Within the UK, English schootchildren (2.17) scored lowest compared with their counterparts in Scotland (2.35) ,Wales (2.43) and Northern Ireland (2.26). British Council chief manager, Martin Davidson, said, "Our schoolchildren cannot afford to fall behind the rest of the world. For the UK to compete in a global economy, it is vital that we encourage our young people to have an interest in and engagement with the world around them." According to the research, UK schoolchildren (32%) are the least likely to go out of their way to understand current events in the world. More than twice as many Brazilian (69%) and German children (61%) said they would do so, compared with a third of Scottish children. When asked whether they saw themselves as citizens of the world or of their own country, most of the school children saw themselves first as world citizens. But children in the UK, US and Czech Republic saw themselves more as citizens of their own country. Under three-quarters (70%) of UK, school children felt that it was important to speak a foreign language for their future work (65% in Scotland). This compared with 100% of school children in Saudi Arabia, 97% in Brazil and India, 85% in China and 73% in America. The foreign language that the UK school children felt was most important to learn was French (40% of those naming a foreign language), followed by Spanish (31%), German ( 8% ) and then Chinese (60%, rising to 9% in Scotland). | |||
| 1. What does the underlined word "counterparts" in Paragraph 2 most probably mean? | |||
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| A. Equals. B. Students. C. Parents. D. Enemies. | |||
| 2. What is the most important foreign language in the opinion of UK schoolchildren? | |||
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| A. German. B. Chinese. C. French. D. Spanish. | |||
| 3. What is the British Council chief manager"s attitude towards the survey results? | |||
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| A. Enthusiastic. B. Worried. C. Excited. D. Positive. | |||
| 4. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage? | |||
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| A. French: the most popular language. B. Global awareness: an important matter. C. British children lack global awareness. D. A survey about British schoolchildren. | |||
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| A teacher is a person who plays the most important role in the develoment of human beings. The future of any student depends on the qualities (品质) and dedication (贡献) of a teacher. It is a famous saying that "A teacher is like a light-house which shows the right path to people in darkess". So to be a teacher is in fact a great responsibility and it"s not easy. A good teacher, first of all, must like working with people. He or she must have a great enthusiasm for the subject being taught-even if you aren"t a great expert in a special subject, you can still teach it well if you enjoy teaching knowledge and are good at communicating with other people. As far as nature is involved, the one quality a good teacher must have is patience. You must never be angry with students because they don"t understand something or _____. You must have a sense of humor and create an atmosphere where everyone knows they can ask questions, try out new ideas and maybe make mistakes. Finally, a good teacher must be in charge of the class. It"s very good if the students decide some aspects of how learning takes place, what they learn etc., but the classroom is a much happier and more interesting place if everyone knows that the teacher is a professional (专业人才), who knows what he is doing and can be trusted (信赖) to run the lesson effectively. It"s the teacher"s responsibility to keep the class going. So a good teacher should be good at dealing with all kinds of situations in class. | |||
| 1. What is the best title for the passage? (Please answer within 10 words.) _______________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following one? A teacher must be patient with his students, which is the first imprtant quality of a good teacher. _______________________________________________________________________________________ 3. Please fill in the blank in the third paragraph with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence. (Please answer within 10 words.) _______________________________________________________________________________________ 4. Accoding to the passage,what qualities should a good teacher have? (Please answer within 30 words.) _______________________________________________________________________________________ 5. Translate the underlined sentence in the second paragraph into Chinese. _______________________________________________________________________________________ | |||
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Earthquakes are one of the most powerful natural forces on earth and regularly affect people around the | |||
| 1. What would be the best title for the passage? (Please answer within 10 words.) ____________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Which sentence in the passage is the closest in meaning to the following one? Most earthquakes are so small that people can"t feel them when they occur. ____________________________________________________________________________________ 3. Fill in the blank in the last paragraph with proper words. ( Please answer within 6 words.) ____________________________________________________________________________________ 4. Why do you think earthquakes happen? (Please answer within 30 words.) ____________________________________________________________________________________ 5. Translate the underlined sentence in Paragraph 3 into Chinese. ____________________________________________________________________________________ | |||
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| In the United States, federal law requires public schools to provide special education services for children with any disability (障碍). But today we look at three private schools that serve only students with learning disabilities. The Hillside School in Pennsylvania accepts up to one hundred and twenty-eight children. The students aged five to thirteen have disorders with language, writing or working with numbers. They may also have attention disorders. Hillside administrators say the main goal is to prepare students to learn effectively in a regular school. Teachers and specialists develop individual learning plans for the students, which is something a public school may not do. Development director Kathy Greene says most students remain at Hillside for about three years before leaving for a regular classroom setting. "Serving intelligent students with learning differences" is the slogan of the Shelton School in Texas. Its website says the school has about eight hundred forty students in all twelve grades, and one teacher for every six students. The Shelton School also says its goal is to prepare students to return to regular classes, although some do finish high school there. The website says forty-four students graduated from Shelton in 2006. And it says they received acceptances from a total of seventy-seven colleges and universities. Landmark College in Vermont is a college for students with learning difficulties. It offers a two-year program that prepares students to continue their studies at a four-year school. Each student has an adviser and an individual learning program. Landmark has international students this year from South America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa. All three schools offer financial aid. Hillside costs about seventeen thousand dollars a year to study in Hillside,while it costs between ten and twenty-one thousand to study in Shelton, depending on the grade level. Shelton and Hillside students live at home. It costs about fifty thousand dollars a year to study in Landmark College, which includes housing. | |||
| 1. How many classes are there at the Hillside School in Pennsylvania at least? | |||
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| A. 3. B. 8. C. 16. D. 128. | |||
| 2. In _____ students can study at school at night. | |||
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| A. Landmark College B. the Shelton School C. the Hillside School D. Hillside and Shelton | |||
| 3. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage? | |||
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| A. Teachers in public schools don"t make individual learning plans for the studnets. B. There are about 140 teachers working in the Shelton School. C. The Shelton School has the largest number of students of the three. D. Students can have a 6-year study at Landmark College. | |||
| 4. After reading the passage we can infer that _____. | |||
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| A. few students of the Shelton School were admitted to colleges and universites in 2006 B. Hillside,Shelton and Landmark are not normal schools in the United States C. students with learning disabilities can"t go to public school in America D. Landmark College offers financial aid only to the native students | |||
| 5. Which would be the best title for this passage? | |||
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| A. Public Schools and Private Schools B. Students With Learning Disabilities C. The Regular Processes to Success D. Schools for the Learning Disabled |