2 . When you’re leaning ______ new language, there are a lot of things to remember: spelling rules, grammar rules, punctuation rules...the list is endless. But there’s ______ that can help you: mnemonics (助记符号).

Mnemonics are techniques to help you remember things. There are a variety of them, ______ rhymes, spelling acronyms (首字母缩略词) and sentence mnemonics.

Rhymes are a great way ______ things. The sounds, unusual words and rhythm of them help you recall ideas. Do you know when Columbus sailed to America? There’s a thyme to help you which goes like this, “______ fourteen-hundred and ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue.” Most people ______ that since they ______ young and never forget it!

Spelling acronyms involve creating a sentence ______ on the letters of a target word. For example, the following sentence can help you with the spelling of the word “because”, “Big elephants can always understand small elephants”. Notice how the ______ letter of each word in the sentence spells out the word “because”. This one ______ to remind you to include the “h” in the word “which”, “Which house is Cath’s house?” To spell Mississippi, a rhythm mnemonic is combined with a spelling one: “miss iss ippi”. And ______ you can’t remember the spelling of the word “mnemonics”, use this one “Mike never eats meat or nuts in case he is sick.”

Sentence mnemonics are also ______. The following can help you with the difference between the words “principal” and “principle”, “A principal is your pal at school, and a principle is a belief or rule.” Or this one to help you remember the difference in spelling between “deserts” (such as the Sahara) and “desserts” (such as Tiramisu), “A dessert has two sugars so it’s ______ but a desert only has one.” The two “sugars” mentioned in the sentence refer to the two s’s in the word “dessert”. Or this one to clear up the confusion between “stationery” and “stationary”, “The car is stationary. An envelope is stationery”.

You can learn grammar rules with sentence mnemonics too. For example, this one ______ help you with the position of adjectives, “Adjectives come before nouns just as ’A’ comes before ‘N’.” And this one can help you learn about the use of apostrophes (撇号), “Apostrophes show possession (拥有).”

Mnemonics can help a lot with language learning. Why not ______ inventing a few of your own!

1.

A．an

B．the

C．a

D．/

2.

A．something

B．anything

C．nothing

D．everything

3.

A．to include

B．includes

C．including

D．included

4.

A．remember

B．to remember

C．remembered

D．remembering

5.

A．For

B．To

C．With

D．In

6.

A．learns

B．learned

C．have learned

D．is learning

7.

A．are

B．were

C．have been

D．is being

8.

A．to base

B．basing

C．base

D．based

9.

A．one

B．first

C．ones

D．second

10.

A．designing

B．designed

C．is designed

D．is designing

11.

A．because

B．if

C．when

D．until

12.

A．useful

B．use

C．usefully

D．useless

13.

A．sweetest

B．sweet

C．sweeter

D．sweets

14.

A．should

B．can

C．had better

D．must

15.

A．try

B．to try

C．trying

D．tried

5 . A—G是对七本字典的介绍。
A. An ENGLISH-CHINESE DICTIONARY
For foreigners to learn Chinese. Just look up English words and get the Chinese meaning
B. ADVANECED ENGLISH GRAMMAR
For high school students. Uses of Numerals. Kinds of nouns and sentences, etc.
C. LONGMAN DICITONARY
80,000 English-English words and phrases including (包括) scientific and technical terms and latest words like AI.
D. A CHINESE-ENGLISH DICTIONARY
For Chinese students. Don’t know how to say “Duan Lian” in English? Here goes!
E. XINHUA DICTIONARY
Pronunciation and meaning of Chinese characters.
F. DICTIONARY OF IDIOMS (习语)
English-Chinese. Uses of over 80,000 idioms. Clear explanation.
G. OXFORD ADVAENCED LEARNER’S DICTIONARY OF CURRENT ENGLISH
Easy to understand with a lot of examples and pictures. Help learners to use verbs correctly.
请你为以下题目中描述的人选择一本合适的字典，七本字典中有两本不适合题目中的任何人。
1. Linda is an English learner. Now he wants to put the Chinese writing into English.
2. Tom is a Chinese lover. He hopes to learn as many Chinese characters as possible. But he can’t understand Chinese well, so he has to learn them in English.
3. Li Hua doesn’t know the meaning of the saying “Practice makes perfect.”
4. Mr. Clark is a scientist. He needs to read an English book of technology, but there are so many new words.
5. Lily finds that she always uses verbs in a wrong way.

6 . 回答问题。
请阅读下面这篇文章，根据所提供的信息，回答5个问题。要求所写答案语法正确、语义完整。
Dear Li Hua,

I hear you are learning German now. I’m happy to share my experience of learning this language with you. My interest in Germany came from its football team. I became a fan of the team after watching the 2014 World Cup. To know the team better, I decided to learn German. I went to a language school once a week. However, the grammar of German troubled me a lot and even drove me crazy. My only advantage was spelling—I got an A on every word test I took. After one year of learning, I tried hard to communicate in broken German. To change the situation, I went to a 20-day summer camp in Germany.

When I arrived in Germany, I was sad. The German that I’d learned in the language school wasn’t practical(切实可行的) for everyday conversation. I was often nervous to talk to others and worried about whether they could understand me. The teachers in the summer camp were patient and helpful. They always encouraged me to say more. By the end of the summer camp, I had made progress in my spoken German with their help.

Yours,

Mary

1. What language did Mary decide to learn?
_________________________________
2. How often did Mary go to a language school?
_________________________________
3. How did Mary feel when she arrived in Germany?
_________________________________
4. How long did the summer camp last?
_________________________________
5. Who encouraged Mary to say more?
_________________________________
6. 书面表达

请根据要求完成短文写作。

假如你是李华，你的笔友Tom对中文很感兴趣，但他在学习中文的过程中遇到了一些困难，他写信向你求助，请你给他回复一封电子邮件。

内容包括：
1．收到Tom来信后的心情；
2．对他的求助给予几条建议并说明理由(不少于2条)；
3．希望你的建议对他有帮助。
作文要求：
1．不能照抄原文；不得在作文中出现学校真实的名称和学生的真实姓名。
2．语句连贯，词数80个左右。作文的开头和结尾已经给出，不计入总词数。
Dear Tom,
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Yours,

Li Hua

9 . 配对阅读 左栏是有关学习方法的建议，右栏是个人具体做法的描述。请将左栏的建议和右栏的描述进行合理匹配，并将答题卡上对应题目所选的选项涂黑。

1     A notebook helps a lot Use your free time to learn more. A small notebook will help you to read something again and again when you have time.     2     Reading makes you smart You can learn more from others’ stories. You can learn how to think at the same time.     3     Critical（批判性的）thinking Don’t copy others’ ideas. Learn to look at problems in different ways.     4     Talk about questions with others As long as you have questions, try to talk about them with different people. Then you will find clear answers to them.     5     Have your own ways to learn new words Different people have different ways to remember new words. Right and good ways will give you a big hand.

A. I found it helpful to remember new words by closing my eyes. In this way, I can imagine how to spell the words and concentrate (集中) my mind. At least it’s a good way for me. B. Sometimes I don’t understand the answers to the questions. So I ask others for help and even discuss with them until I get clear answers. C. If you want to learn more, write down what you have to keep in mind on a small notebook and take it with you so that you can read it again and again when you are free. D. I spend about two hours studying English every day. And I often help Tom learn English. Now we are good friends. E. I like thinking by myself. Someone else’s idea may be right, but I can have my own idea. Learn to think critically and it will help you think better. F. Don’t read word by word. Just try to get the main idea of the passage. If you are interested in it, read it carefully. G. I have a reading time before going to sleep. Beside my bed, there is a small box full of books. Every night I will choose one of them and read for one hour. Reading is part of my life.

10 . 假如你是王玲，英语是你的优势科目。你的笔友David不知如何记单词，他来信向你询问如何记单词。请你根据提示，给他一些有效记忆单词的建议。

提示：
        1.通过同义词或反义词来记忆单词
        2.通过边听、边读、边写来记忆单词
        3.自由发挥，再提出另外两种记忆单词的方法
          同义词 synonym 反义词 antonym
要求：80词左右(开头和结尾已给出，不计入总数)
Dear Dave,

I’m happy to hear from you. From your letter, I know that you have trouble memorizing English words.   ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Yours,

Wangling