4 Textbooks for Learning English
American English File:Level 4
The American English File series presents a wide variety of learning topics, from the grammatical phenomena of American English to writing conversational phrases in e-mail. The main goal is to increase the speaking ability of students. Therefore, special attention is paid to pronunciation skills and exercises are illustrated. The training course includes a workbook with practical assignments and a disc with video content.
English Unlimited: Intermediate Coursebook
English Unlimited is an excellent series of textbooks aimed at developing communication skills. The topics of the course are suitable for people of different countries, and the language of instruction is lively and spoken. It includes a conversational trainer, a self-study methodology, and other essential resources such as a DVD for building your own learning selection and tracking progress.
Insight: Advanced
Oxford University Press’s Insight textbook series focuses on English literature and culture. There are already more complex tasks, and you can apply your knowledge in an academic and professional English- speaking environment. The manual includes 10 lessons, each of which contains repetition exercises and list of active vocabulary. At the end of it is an active vocabulary throughout the textbook. Additionally, you can purchase an audio CD, online exercises and a workbook.
High-Level Everyday English
High-Level Everyday English is a textbook that is useful for the advanced level with the absorption of active vocabulary, idioms and fixed expressions. It is proper for self-study of business English, for students of English-speaking universities and teachers and for translators. It uses real-life dialogues and practical examples, self-test exercises and an audio CD.
1. What does American English File: Level 4 focus on?| A．Oral English. | B．English literature. |
| C．English vocabulary. | D．Self-study methods. |
| A．Insight: Advanced. | B．High-Level Everyday English. |
| C．American English File: Level 4. | D．English Unlimited: Intermediate Coursebook. |
| A．They have a workbook. | B．They go with a disc. |
| C．They offer online exercises. | D．They contain active vocabulary. |
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When it comes to learning English, lots of people hate learning idioms. However, if you don’t learn idioms, you may not always understand everything you hear or read in English. So, let’s try these tips to make remembering the idioms a piece of cake.
You’d better develop a good habit of taking notes when you learn English. When you hear or read new words or expressions and you don’t understand them, write them down in your notebook. Then you can go to ask your teacher for help or look them up in your dictionary.
Sometimes the context can help you know the meaning of an idiom. For example, if two students are talking about one of their classmates, they say something like “She always has the right answer. She’s a real teacher’s pet.” You know they are talking about a clever girl. Then you can know that “teacher’s pet” means “their favorite student of the teacher”.
If you think you know how to use an idiom, then don’t hold your tongue! Practice it with your friends or in class. It’s the only way to really learn how to use it.
A. Practice
B. Take notes
C. Read them aloud
D. Use context
【推荐3】No matter where you are, you can be connected via your mobile phone number, email address or social media accounts.
Turn on “Don’t disturb” when you study. If you want to get the most out of your study time, you must reduce distractions. I like spending about 30 minutes reading by using the Kindle app.
Change your mind. One social issue in today’s world is the fear of missing out, which causes us to feel the need to be “connected”. That is one of the main causes of digital distractions.
Turn your “should do” into a “must do”. We all have things we should do. All these “shoulds” pile up and never get done because they aren’t priorities. “Should-dos” have no urgency attached to them, so they fall to the bottom of the pile of things we want to do. When you change a “should” to a “must”, it becomes a priority.
| A．I have no social apps on the phone. |
| B．Tell others that you won’t be available. |
| C．These cause what we call “digital distractions”. |
| D．I have also equipped other apps to help me study. |
| E．You must prevent this from entering your study time. |
| F．No one can avoid them during the daily working periods. |
| G．You will free yourself from distractions and spend more time learning. |
【推荐1】Earth's longest artificial structure is usually said to be the Great Wall of China while the second-longest is not a wall, but a fence. It stretches for 5,614km across eastern Australia and is intended to stop the country's wild dogs, the dingoes, from hunting sheep.
Australia's dingo fence does not stand alone. Millions of kilometres of fences wrap the world. Some are intended to limit the movement of animals, some the movement of people, and some merely to mark the the boundary.
Until recently, data on the effects of fences on wildlife have been inadequate. That has changed with the publication of a report by professor Alex McInturff. One discovery he has made is that more than half of published fence research focuses on just five countries-America, Australia, Botswana, China and South Africa. A second is that only a third of these studies examined the impact of fences on anything other than the target species involved, meaning the animals purposely intended to be kept in or out.
Non-target species, however, are often those that have their fortunes most greatly reshaped by the appearance of poles and wire. Australian fences intended to keep out dingoes are also barriers to long-necked turtles, which travel great distances over land when moving between nesting sites. In Botswana fences built to spare cattle from wildlife-borne disease result in serious interference with wildebeest (角马) migrations.
Not every creature fares badly. Hawks (鹰) in Montana gladly sit on newly built livestock fences to hunt small animals, while fence-based spiders in South Africa outperform their tree-based cousins when it comes to catching insects.
Often, though, the winners are creatures that cause trouble for existing ecosystems. Keeping dingoes out of large parts of Australia has allowed aggressive red foxes to multiply. Native rodents (啮齿类动物) have suffered as a result. Some have been brought to the edge of extinction.
1. Which is a purpose of building fences?| A．To expand the boundary of a country. |
| B．To protect livestock like sheep and cattle. |
| C．To stop wild animals from being hunted. |
| D．To help people move around freely. |
| A．Data on the impact of fences have been proved. |
| B．Previous researches were complete and systematic. |
| C．About two-thirds of the studies focus on the target animals. |
| D．Not all studies examined the effect of fences on wildlife. |
| A．Cattle in Botswana. |
| B．Wildebeest in Botswana. |
| C．Red foxes in Australia. |
| D．Native rodents in Australia. |
【推荐2】Four Practical Ways to Improve Yourself
Are you someone who likes to grow? Do you constantly seek to improve yourself and become better? Here are some ways to self-improve.
1. Read a book every day.
2. Pick up a new hobby. Beyond just your usual favorite hobbies, is there something new you can pick up?
3.
4. Show kindness to people around you.
| A．Learn from your friends. |
| B．Speak to your friends if you need to. |
| C．You can never be too kind to someone. |
| D．Often go to the library with a list of books. |
| E．Books are concentrated sources of wisdom. |
| F．Besides, notice how you feel as you behave kindly to others. |
| G．You can learn a new sport, such as rock climbing, football, or ice skating. |
【推荐3】Trees are useful to man in three important ways: they give him wood and other useful things, they give him cool places, and they help to stop drought and flood.
Unluckily, in many parts of the world, man has not found that the third of these points is the most important. Man wants to make money from trees, so he has cut them down in large numbers, only to find that without them he has lost the best friends he had. And also, he is usually too careless to plant and look after new trees. So the forests slowly disappear.
This does not only mean that man will have fewer trees. The results are even worse: for where there are trees, their roots break up soil—make the rain in—and also bind the soil, thus stopping it from being washed away easily; but where there are no trees, the rain falls on hard ground and flows away, causing floods and carrying away the rich top-soil. When all the top-soil is gone, nothing is left but useless desert.
1. The most important points of trees to man is that ________.| A．they help him to stop drought and floods |
| B．they help him to make money |
| C．they give him cool |
| D．they give him wood and other things |
| A．many trees have been cut down by man |
| B．new trees are not well looked after |
| C．man has not paid enough attention to planting trees |
| D．all the above |
| A．roots of trees break up the soil |
| B．there are too many rainfalls |
| C．strong winds bring a lot of sand |
| D．there are no longer trees to keep the rain and protect the top-soil. |
| A．Trees and Man |
| B．The Function of Tree Wood |
| C．How do People do with Trees? |
| D．The Usage of Tree Roots |
