Here are five points you can follow to improve your English, and the first point is the most important. It"s your duty to achieve your aims (目标)!
Studying English is your own duty and not the duty of your teacher or your parents. You must take an
active part in your clsses! | Get a teacher or attend a class!
It"s a little difficult to study English alone. Also, it"s difficult to learn how to speak English if you don"t have an English teacher to talk with. | Work as hard as possible in class!
You need to practice speaking often. You should do all of your homework, reading and vocabulary
study outside class and then check the homework in class. | Keep studying!
Don"t stop for a long time such as during a summer holiday! To make good progress, you should study at least 5 hours each week. | Make English your hobby and have fun!
You can improve your English through other activities:
Reading - choose English books that you can read.
English songs - choose your favorite English songs and sing them again and again.
DVDs - many films are also in English with subtitles in your language.
Travel - traveling in English-speaking countries can help you with your English. | | 阅读下面A-E五段叙述, 并将其与56-60五个主题说明分别匹配. | |
Reading Tips (suggestions)
A. Have everything ready:
● something to read
● marker to highlight(标出) difficult words
● dictionary
● your vocabulary book
● pen to write down the new words
B. Choose a magazine or a book about a subject that you like, because you are going to spend time and
money on it. You can also read newspapers.
C. Read something that you can, more or less, understand. If you need to stop every three words to look
in a dictionary, it will not be interesting for you and you will soon feel frustrated.
D. For example, read for a short time once a day. Fifteen minutes every day is better than two hours every
Sunday. Set time to read and keep to it. For example, you could read for fifteen minutes before you go
to bed, or when you get up, or at lunchtime.
E. If there are four or five new words on a page, write them in your vocabulary book. But don"t write
them while you read. Instead, as you read, try to guess their meanings first. Mark them with a pen and
then come back for them after you have finished reading. Then you can check in a dictionary before
you add them in your vocabulary book. | | 根据短文内容,选择最佳选项. | Learning a foreign language is difficult for many learners, but the following tips may help you learn a
foreign language quickly.
Reading aloud
When you start learning a foreign language, read aloud. It will help you increase (增加) your
vocabulary. Studies have shown that reading aloud instead of reading lowly only to yourself helps in
remembering. It helps with pronunciation, too.
Building your vocabulary
You"ll have to make a few word lists, have to memorize and review them regularly. You may have to
review the word lists at least once a day for two weeks. Later you may need to review the word lists
once a week for the next four to five weeks.
Learning grammar
Learning the grammar of a foreign language is a dry and boring task. But it can speed (加速) your
language learning. Don"t jump to learn tenses (时态); it"s better to be done after you"ve learned some of
the language. The most important thing is that you shouldn"t worry about the mistakes you"ll make when
you start speaking the language. It"s from these mistakes that you"ll learn the language better.
Watching TV and movies
This is a wonderful way to learn a foreign language quickly. You can watch TV shows in the language
you"re learning. They"ll help you a great deal with the vocabulary as well as catching what others say and
also your pronunciation. | | 1. Reading aloud when learning a foreign language helps in _____. | A. talking to people
B. understanding words
C. learning grammar quickly
D. pronouncing words correctly | | 2. Which of the following is important in building one"s vocabulary of a foreign language? | A. Writing the words again and again.
B. Listening to tapes in the language.
C. Reviewing words from time to time.
D. Reading more articles in the language. | | 3. When learning the grammar of a foreign language, you should _____. | A. learn tenses first
B. try not to make mistakes
C. make at least one word list
D. learn from the mistakes you make | | 4. The underlined phrase "a great deal" means "_____". | A. much
B. little
C. a few
D. never | | 5. Which is the BEST title for the passage? | A. Traditional ways of learning English
B. Some advice on learning a foreign language
C. The importance of learning a foreign language
D. How to deal with the difficulties in learning English | | 阅读理解。 | The United States has many different kinds of climates (气候). On the northwest coast (海岸), the
temperature changes very little between summer and winter, but the north central (中部的) states have a
very different kind of climate. In those states, people wear light clothes in summer, and they need heavy
woolen clothes in winter.
In the southwest coast, the climate is rainy and warm during the winter, but the summer is dry and hot.
In the northeast of the United States, summer temperatures are very different from winter temperatures.
Summer is usually hot, and winter is usually cold. Spring temperatures are warm, and fall temperatures
are cool.
Years ago, people in the cold parts of the United States didn"t often get fresh (新鲜的) vegetables and
fresh fruits during the summer. Today, however (然而),trucks and trains carry fruits and vegetables very
quickly to all parts of the United States. In this way, Americans "send their climates" to people in other
states. | | 1. The summer and winter temperatures are almost the same _____. | A. in the northeastern states
B. on the north central states
C. in the western states
D. on the northwest coast | | 2. The word"fall"in this passage means _____. | A. drop
B. down
C. autumn
D. spring | | 3. Today people _____ can get fresh vegetables and fruits. | A. in the north central states
B. in every part of the U.S.A.
C. in the cold parts of the U.S.A.
D. in the southwest part of the U.S.A. | | 4. From this passage we know that the climate of the United States _____. | A. is always very cold
B. is warm in winter
C. is widely different
D. changes very little between summer and winter | | 5. From Paragraph 2 we know that the climate of the southwest coast is _____. | A. Maritime (海洋性) climate
B. Savanna (热带草原) climate
C. Mediterranean (地中海) climate
D. Tropical rainforest (热带雨林) climate | | 阅读理解。 | The Inventions
Paper was first made in the year 105. It was made by a Chinese named Cai Lun.
For over 500 years paper was made only in China. People in Japan learned of paper around the year
600. As years went by, people in other places began to make paper.
The lead (铅) pencil is not made of lead. It is made of graphite (石墨). People found graphite in 1564.
They thought it was a kind of lead. Today we still call pencils "lead pencils". The first pencils were made
by putting strings (线) around sticks of graphite.
The first wooden pencils were made by Kasper Faber in Germany in 1761.
Erasers (橡皮) like those we use today were first made in France by a man named Magellan in 1752. It
was Hyman L. Lipman who first put eraser on the ends of pencils. And that is how the pencils came to
be. | | 1. How many years earlier was paper made in China than in Japan? | A. About 100 years.
B. About 400 years.
C. More than 500 years.
D. 495 years | | 2. Germans made paper _____. | A. earlier than Japan
B. later than Japan
C. as early as Japan
D. as late as Japan | | 3. At first pencils were made of _____. | A. wood
B. lead
C. sticks
D. string and graphite | | 4. Kasper Faber was _____. | A. an Englishman
B. a Frenchman
C. a German
D. an American | | 5. Which of the following statements is NOT true? | A. Paper was first made in China.
B. Graphite isn"t a kind of lead.
C. The first wooden pencils were made in Germany.
D. Hyman L. Lipman made the first erasers. |
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