【推荐1】There's no such thing as being born ''good at languages." However, there are people who learn languages well.     1     Here is some of what   good language learners do.

Don't he afraid to take risks. A Dutch friend of mine speaks English, Spanish, German, and. of course. Dutch. I asked her what she thought was most important in learning a language. She answered immediately: "Courage."     2       For example, trying out different ways of learning vocabulary until finding a way that suits them best. They know that with every mistake, they gain a small victory toward improving their language.

Find a learning style that suits them, Everyone has a learning style that suits (hem best. Figure out how you learn most easily and apply your preferred learning styles to your language learning. When learning something new,do you like talk about it or think about it? Or do you get new information in pictures or words? Do you find it easier to learn facts or concepts?     3    

Be actively involved in learning.     4     They know practice is very important and are willing to take risks and appear foolish if necessary. They don't expect to learn English only by sitting in the classroom but look lor creative ways both inside and outside the classroom to try out what they have learned.

    5     Learning a language means learning the culture where it is spoken as well. Good language learners learn the customs of nonverbal behavior and the important values of the culture. They learn how to behave in society. For example, they learn that “How are you?" is a greeting formula in English, not a real question.

【推荐2】English is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world. Leaning English well is very important. Here are some ___ that can help you learn English well.

Do a lot of ___. Listen to recordings of your teacher, the radio, TV video cassettes (盒式磁带) — anything that you can ___. Just listen to English as ___ as you can and you will learn a lot.

Every time you learn something ___, write it down in a notebook. This will help you ___ what you have learned. Buy a notebook and use it ___ for practicing English.

Try to read English one hour every day. Yes, this is ___, but English has many words, and a good way to enlarge your ___ is to read them.

____ you have the chance, speak English. This will be hard to do ____ you don’t live in an English speaking country; ____, the Internet provides new ____ to practice speaking English through chat rooms and audio-video chat technology (技术). You can also ____ your voice using a recorder.

Find a few different ____ that you can go to daily. Don’t ____ anything on the Internet. Some websites ____ monthly or yearly fees but they aren’t ____ it.

Learn from a teacher. If it’s possible, you ____ try to learn from as many different teachers as possible, or at the very least find ____ and learn from him.

【推荐3】People always say that the earlier one learns a language, the _________ it is to do so, in theory it is that, _________, in my opinion, that refers to spoken language. Capability(能力) to practice some essential(基本的) _________ of a language and read between the lines can only be trained through proper reading ways and hard work _________. So spending money to help _________ learn English may _________ up with disappointment. It is likely that the more you _________ the more you are let down.

The daughter of one of my friends _________ English in primary school, _________ her foreign teacher’s blindness ____________ psychology. She did not want to go on ____________ English until middle school, ____________ a college student studying English slowly ____________ her interest in the language.

It is better to have the child learn Chinese than to have some difficulty ____________learning English for several years. Having been engaged in English education, ____________ find that despite(尽管) their excellent ____________, many students have ____________ command of English words and phrases. So I suggest that children ____________ classical Chinese prose(散文), rather than ____________ them to learn English hurriedly. Otherwise, they may let go the best time to ____________ the language ability of their mother tongue.

Beware of those who use the truth to deceive. When someone tells you something that is_______, but leaves out important information that should be_______, he can create a false impression.

For example, someone might say, “I just_______a hundred dollars on the lottery. It was great. I took that dollar ticket back to the store and_______it in for one hundred dollars!”

This guy’s a winner,_______? Maybe, maybe not. We then discover that he bought two hundred_______, and only one was a winner. He’s really a big_______!

He didn’t say anything that was_______, but he deliberately left out some important_______. That’s called a half-truth. Half-truths are not technically__________, but they are just as not__________.

Untrustworthy candidates in__________campaigns often use this tactic (策略，手段). Let’s say that during Governor Smith’s last term, her state lost one million jobs and__________three million jobs. Then she__________another term. One of her opponents runs an ad__________, “During Governor Smith’s term, the state lost one million jobs!” That’s true.__________, an honest statement would have been, “During Governor Smith’s term, the state had a net gain of__________million jobs.”

Advertisers will sometimes use half-truths. It’s__________the law to make false claims so they try to mislead you with the__________. An ad might boast, “Nine out of ten doctors recommend Yucky Pills to cure nose pimples.” It__________to mention that they only asked ten doctors and nine of them work for the Yucky Corporation.

This kind of deception happens too often. It’s a sad fact of life: Lies are lies, and sometimes the truth can lie as well.

【推荐2】Certainty：Over-rated and Over-rewarded

Type the words “kind of” or “perhaps” into an email in Microsoft Outlook and the program might well tell you to think again. If the Al-powered “Microsoft Editor” judges that you are not sounding _________ enough, it will soon give you a word of warning：“Words expressing uncertainty will _________ your impact.”

To me, this suggestion precisely expresses something we’ve got wrong in society. We live in a world that _________ those who speak with confidence-even when that is misplaced-and gives very little opportunity to perform to those who _________ doubt. “We tend to listen to those experts who tell us a simple, clear and confident story. Why? Because that’s _________ satisfying,” says Dan Gardner, author of Future Babble, “That’s saying let me sweep away the uncertainty for you’.”

Research shows that the human brain is “programmed” to hate _________：a 2016 study found that when volunteers were given electric shocks, their stress levels were highest when they had no idea whether they were going to be given a shock-higher even than subjects who were told they would _________ get one.

We should first know that while confident-sounding experts might be giving us what our brains desire, the _________ they are providing is probably false. Psychologist Philip Tetlock divided up forecasters into “foxes” and “hedgehogs”. Foxes consider all sorts of different approaches sand perspectives, and combine those into distinct conclusions. _________, hedgehogs tend to view the world through the lens of one single defining idea. That makes the hedgehogs __________ forecasters but more likely to get attention.

Perhaps we care less about the truth and more about enjoying some sense of __________ however short-lived that might be. But wouldn’t it be better if we held experts to account? Mr. Gardner suggests tagging speakers with some kind of record of previous __________ much as we are given performance statistics for racehorses or baseball players.

Highly confident statements also __________ polarization（两极化）, encouraging others to respond in the same kind of language when they disagree. “There’s a natural tendency to push back with equal amounts of __________ says Daniel Drezner, a political scientist.

Is it time to give a bit more attention to the __________? Full of certainty on the need to stop paying so much attention to those expressing certainty, I say yes.

【推荐3】Modern inventions have speeded up people's lives amazingly. Motor cars _______ a hundred miles in more than an hour, aircraft cross the world within a day, _________ computers operate at lightning speed. Indeed, this love of _________ seems never-ending. Every year motor cars are produced which go even faster and each new computer boasts (吹嘘) of _________ precious seconds in handling tasks.

All this saves time, but _______ a cost. When we lose or gain half a day in speeding across the world in an airplane, our bodies tell us so. We get the uncomfortable feeling known as jet-lag (时差). Our bodies feel that they have been _________ behind in another time zone. Again, spending too long at _________ results in painful wrists and fingers. Mobile phones also have their dangers, according to some scientists; too much use may transmit (传播) harmful _________ into our brains, a consequence we do not like to _________ about.

However, how do we handle the time we have saved? Certainly not relax, or so it seems. We are so used to constant activity that we find it ______________ to sit down and do nothing or even just one thing at a time. Perhaps the days are long gone when we might listen ______________ to a story on the radio, letting imagination take us into another world.

There was a time ____________ some people's lives were devoted simply to the cultivation (耕作) of the ______________ or the care of cattle. No multi-tasking (多重任务) there; their lives went on at a much gentler pace, and in a familiar pattern. There is much that we might envy about a way of life like this. Yet before we do so, we must think of the hard tasks our ancestors ______________. Modern machines have ______________ people from that primitive existence.