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quickly pick up the language. But what about for the rest of us who are no longer five, and need to be
polite when traveling for business or for pleasure? I think that answer is also yes. Language learning can
be easy if you don"t want or need to learn too much.
The key to successful language learning in my mind is not to set the goal too high. It is rather like
running. Even if you run twice a week, you don"t necessarily want to be able to run a marathon. You
might just want to maintain a level of fitness. I think the same can be true for language learning.
Let"s get back to the goal. If you decide to learn ten words in a foreign language before visiting the
country, you know that you will manage to do this. However, if you decide to attain conversational
fluency, unless you are an exceptionally talented individual, you will probably fail and give up in disgust.
It is also far easier to start learning a foreign language than to finish. In other words, the better you
are, the slower it can be to improve, because you will get stuck with grammar, making sentences,
learning less common words, etc. If you are only trying to learn a few foreign words and phrases, you
will enjoy faster progress, have more fun, and won"t have to spend too much time.
The idea of learning only a few hundred words in a language, and then stopping, isn"t the usual
approach to language learning, but it can be a very rewarding and entertaining activity.
B. they don"t want or need to learn too much
C. they have to spend a lot of time on it
D. they have a chance to go abroad
stopping, _____.
B. is of no use for learning a language
C. may cause a lot of mistakes while traveling
D. can be rewarding and entertaining
B. become a gifted language learner
C. get tired of learning it
D. reach your learning goal in advance
B. Hard Language Learning
C. Fluency in a Foreign Language
D. A Method of Language Learning
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试题【阅读理解。 Is learning a foreign language ever easy? Yes. If you are five and mov】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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Journal of Health and Social Behavior.
However, the study also found that when less-educated people did suffer stress it was more severe and
had a stronger effect on their health.
From this, researchers have concluded that the day-to-day factors that cause stress are regular. Where
you are in society determines the kinds of problems that you have each day, and how well you will cope with
them.
The research team interviewed a national sample of 1, 031 adults daily for eight days about their stress
level and health. People without a high school diploma reported stress on 30 percent of the study days, people
with a high school degree reported stress 38 percent of the time, and people with college degrees reported
stress 44 percent of the time.
"Less advantaged people are less healthy on a daily basis and are more likely to have downward turns in
their health." leading researcher, Dr. Joseph Grzywacz of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center,
said in a prepared statement."The downward turns in health were connected with daily stressors (紧张刺激物),
and the effect of daily stressors on their health is much more damaging for the less advantaged."
"If something happens every day, maybe it"s not seen as a stressor." Grzywacz says. "Maybe it is just life."
B. social position
C. body weight
D. work experience
B. People without high school degrees.
C. People with high school degrees.
D. People with college degrees.
B. the effect of education on their health is
C. the level of their education is
D. the degree of their health concern is
B. they don"t want to face the truth
C. stress is too common a factor in their life
D. their stress is much greater
cassettes. Those are important to learning but sometimes a little bit boring. Therefore, it is time for us to
spice things up a bit.
Things like a cellphone can keep your interest level high. It"s a perfect study material. You have it with
you day after day, you are familiar with how it works and you can use it to practice whenever you have time.
You don"t need to have your books by your side or stay in your room to listen to tapes. Let"s take a look at
how to add your cellphone to your study tools.
Set up your cellphone to use the language you want to study. Go to the menu, find settings, locate
language and change it to English or Spanish, which benefits your language learning.
Look at the buttons and connect those items with the new vocabulary. This enables you to master simple
words and phrases with little effort. For example, each time you open up your cellphone you"ll see "messages",
"games" and "calls made". These words begin to take root if you see them again and again.
When you have time, take out your cellphone and start hitting buttons. You"ll be surprised at all the
vocabulary you can learn by playing with the different menu items. Some things you"ll recognize immediately
and others you can guess just by where you find them.
It can keep your learning fresh and interesting. And that"s important because boredom is a big problem
with language learners. You need variety and a cellphone is one way to get it.
B. make things realistic
C. make things helpful
D. make things obvious
B. It keeps our learning interest high.
C. We can use it to practice freely.
D. It offers the chance to practice learning.
B. remember the messages sent by others
C. improve the techniques of playing games
D. become familiar with different kinds of languages
B. To introduce the latest ways of language learning.
C. To inform how to keep your learning fresh.
D. To explain how to use cellphones to learn language.
regularly playing a musical instrument changes the shape and power of the brain, and may be used in therapy
(疗法) to improve cognitive (认知) skills.
Experts say there is growing evidence that musicians have brains that are structurally and functionally
different from those of non-musicians, especially in the areas of the brain used in processing (处理信息).
The parts of the brain that control motor skills, the storage of audio information, hearing and memory
become larger and more active when a person learns how to play an instrument and can apparently improve
the alertness (警觉) and planning.
Lutz Jancke, a psychologist at the University of Zurich, said, "Leaning to play a musical instrument has
great benefits and can increase IQ by seven points in both children and adults. We found that even people
over the age of 65, after four or five months of playing an instrument for an hour a week, had strong changes
in the brain." The parts of the brain that control hearing and memory, and the part that controls the hands,
among others, all become more active.
"Of course music isn"t the only answer, but I do believe that it should be used in addition to other things."
Mr. Jancke also said that learning a musical instrument could also make it easier to learn foreign languages
and make one more sensitive to understanding the emotions of others. "So not only does this make it easier to
pick up other languages and have a better memory of one"s own, we have also seen musicians are able to pick
out exactly what others are feeling just by the tones of their voices-sympathy, disappointment, that kind of
things."
He added, "Several studies indeed show that playing music increases memory and language skills, but
more research is needed."
B. How music affects the brain.
C. How playing music makes people smarter.
D. The development of research into music.
B. musicians are more active in sports
C. musicians have stronger emotions
D. musicians" brains work differently in processing
B. It allows one to show his feelings more exactly to others.
C. It gives one a better memory in one"s own language.
D. it makes one understand others" feelings better.
B. playing an instrument has no benefits for people over 65
C. some studies show playing music can increase memory
D. he will do more research into brain development and music
entrepreneur Oscar Dios thinks they can be persuaded otherwise and he has created a new kind of hostel to
prove it.
Dios says it is the world"s first jumbo (unusually large) jet hostel, an actual jet-plane at Sweden"s main
airport outside Stockholm which has been changed into a 25-room guesthouse that sleeps as many as 72
people.
"I learned about this plane that was standing deserted at Arlanda airport and I"ve been trying the concept
of hostels in many different houses and buildings," he told Reuters ."I thought, "Why not a plane?""
Jumbo Hostels opened for business on Thursday, giving customers the chance to check in and sleep in a
room that can best be described as comfortable."
"The most challenging part with this project is trying to build something inside a metal hull (壳)-it"s just
really, really tight."
The jet, which was originally produced for Singapore Airlines, was taken out of service in 2002. It is held
on a concrete foundation with the landing gear secured in steel cradles.
One feature of the hostel is its price-a room starts at 350 Swedish crowns (about $ 41), which is a lot less
than hotel rooms outside of major airports.
Another feature is that customers can get married on the wing of the plane and stay in the plane"s more
luxurious honeymoon suite (套房).
Instead of walking down the aisle in the church, lovebirds can take what Jumbo Hostels calls the "wing
walk," where they can be joined in great happiness at the wing tip. The hostel has someone ready to perform
the ceremony.
But in some respects this hostel remains a plane-most customers have to share the jet"s nine bathrooms
and the staff only wear air host and hostess outfits. The only room that has its own bathroom is the
honeymoon suite.
B. air hostesses can offer good service
C. a wedding ceremony can be held on the wing
D. the staff can have a"wing walk"
B. the jet plane was out of use for over six years
C. the hostel provides nine bathrooms for customers
D. every hostel room is $ 41 per night
B. tense
C. small
D. full
B. describe a wonderful place for weddings
C. prove people can sleep on a plane
D. call on people to make use of the deserted things
that your ears are freezing because you forgot your hat.
Now, scientists have shown that even though you"ve had an apparent memory lapse (丧失), your brain
never forgot what you should have done.
Memory works mainly by association. For example, as you try to remember where you left your keys,
you might recall you last had them in the living room, which reminds you that there was an ad for soap on
television, which reminds you that you need soap, and so on. And then, as you"re heading out of the door to
buy soap, you remember that your keys are on the kitchen counter. Your brain knew where the keys were
all along. It just took a round-about way to get there.
Now, scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies are studying associative memory in monkeys
to figure out just how this complicated process works.
First, the researchers trained a group of monkeys to remember arbitrary (任意的) pairs of symbols. The
researchers showed the monkeys one symbol (cold weather) and then gave them the choice of two other
symbols, one of which (a hat) would be associated with the first. A correct choice would earn them a sip of
their favorite juice.
Most of the monkeys performed the test perfectly, but one kept making mistakes.
"We wondered what happened in the brain when the monkey made the wrong choice, although it
apparently learned the right pairing of symbols," said study leader Thomas Albright.
Albright and his team observed signals from the nerve cells in the monkey"s inferior temporal cortex (ITC),
an area of its brain used for visual pattern recognition and for storing this type of memory.
As the monkey was deciding which symbol to choose, about a quarter of the activity in the ITC was due
to the choice behavior.
Meanwhile, more than half the activity was in a different group of nerve cells, which scientists believe
represent the monkey"s memory of the correct symbol pairing, and surprisingly, these cells continued to fire
even when the monkey chose the wrong symbol.
"In this sense, the cells "knew" more than the monkeys let on in their behavior," Albright said. "Thus,
behavior may vary, but knowledge endures."
B. memory and association
C. memory and television ads
D. memory and our daily life
B. Activity is a round-about way to memory.
C. Your brain remembers what you forget.
D. Monkeys have better memory than us.
B. had the worst memory
C. failed to see the objects well
D. had some trouble with its nerve system
B. increases
C. improves
D. remains
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