1 . People often ask me for suggestions about how to learn English. As for it, everyone is different. I’ll share some of my experience. I once took a school year English course in Wuhan University, but I mostly learned English on my own.
One thing I can tell you is that once you start learning, you should try to think in English as much as you can. If you see something when you’re riding your bike or walking down the street, just think about “How would I say it in English?” At first, it might be with simple words or phrases, but later you should think about longer phrases and sentences. Now I’m in America, and for most of the time, I would think in English and speak it directly. It’s true that it helps a lot.
For several years after I started learning, I was often afraid of talking with others in English because I didn’t want to make mistakes. Finally I got it over. And while traveling in America, I’d try to hang out with friends who couldn’t speak Chinese, so that I’d have no choice but to speak English. And I also decided that if I said something stupid and other people laughed at me, then so be it. After that, my English started improving much more quickly.
Besides, it may be a good idea to ask your American friends to look at the way you’re writing, and give you some suggestions for improvement.
1. According to the writer, ________ is a good way to improve your English.| A．thinking in English | B．learning English grammar |
| C．watching English films | D．reading English books |
| A．making friends in America | B．travelling in America |
| C．being afraid of speaking English | D．learning English in America |
| A．The Importance of English | B．My English Learning Experience |
| C．My University Life | D．My American Friends |
A. Reading more maps is the key to learning geography well. Learning to draw some maps is also necessary. Besides, doing some exercises about it can help remember more knowledge of the subject. B. Reading more stories is necessary in learning to write. Also, keeping a diary is useful. Sometimes share the writing ideas with others. And remember to do some important exercises to learn it better. C. Doing experiments (实验) and carefully watching are the key to learning science well. Many phenomena (现象) in daily life have something to do with it. So try to discover and understand them. D. Don’t worry about physical tests too much and just keep relaxed. Of course, it’s important to keep doing sports and exercise hard before the tests. Also, having a healthy eating habit is also important. E. It’s a good idea to improve English by doing more English listening. Listening to tapes or watching movies may help much. Practice makes perfect. Just keep it and then get better at it. F. First, try to show interest in it. Then, pay attention to remembering something in history in the time order. Finally, it’s helpful to remember important people and events. It’s more interesting to remember these by making up a story. G. Understand and remember as many formulas (公式) and laws in math as possible. Then try to do more exercises and solve the same problem in different ways. Asking classmates or teachers for help is necessary. |
3 . Nowadays, more and more students go abroad to learn English. It’s true that studying in an English-speaking country is a good way, but it’s not the only way. There are some other good ways.
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The only way to learn to speak a language is by speaking. You may study for years and learn all of the grammar rules, but unless you actually speak it, you will never speak well. When you are practicing speaking, remember to do it out loud.
Talking to yourself
When you learn a foreign language, it’s common for you to develop listening skills more quickly than speaking skills. This is why so many language learners may be able to understand a foreign language a lot better than actually speak it. A good way to solve this problem is to talk to yourself as much as possible.
Using the mobile app—Duolingo
For beginners, the app can help you learn verbs, phrases and sentences. Depending on your selection (选择), the app will make you go through a test. And Duolingo will provide learning materials according to your ability.
If you make a mistake, the app will use a game to help you learn and correct it. If you still make the same mistake, it will use a different game to further help you understand.
Reading out loud
Try reading out loud. You will get a lot from reading. As a beginner, you should read aloud as much as possible. You may not feel it right away, but all those hours of reading out loud to yourself will help you speak well.
1. What can be put back into the blank (空格)?| A．Learning grammar rules. | B．Developing your studying skills. |
| C．Trying to be perfect. | D．Practicing speaking. |
| A．Find a partner. | B．Read more books. | C．Talk to your mother. | D．Talk to yourself. |
| A．If you want to speak a language, you should first learn the grammar rules. |
| B．Duolingo can correct learners’ mistakes by using different games. |
| C．The passage tells us five kinds of ways to learn English. |
| D．It’s not a good way to learn by going to English-speaking countries. |
| A．What you get from reading. | B．The mobile app. |
| C．The English-speaking country. | D．The writing skill. |
| A．To encourage us to learn English. | B．To explain the reason to learn English. |
| C．To give some ways to learn English. | D．To show how to make friends with native (本族语的) speakers. |
| Ⅰ | Ⅱ A. I always bring an English dictionary with me no matter where I go. When I find new words, I can look them up in the dictionary. B. I often watch TED Talks online. When I find a speech I like, I might watch it more than 10 times. Then I not only know the words and sentences, but also have a better understanding of the speech. C. I follow an app for English learning. This is a great way to build up English materials (素材) for writing. There are also some model works. D. I write down every mistake and the reason why I made it in a notebook. And I also write the correct answer next to the reason. It is a good way to avoid (避免) making the same mistakes. E. I usually write words on cards. I can place them in my bag when I go out. So I can go over them at any time. F. I like reading English newspapers in my free time. Reading newspapers can help me know what happens around the world. G. I encourage myself to speak English with others and practice English in front of a mirror. These ways help me with my spoken English. |
5 . People at home keep asking me, “Is it hard to learn Chinese? Why have you learned it so well?” Well, there’s one thing that makes Chinese easy to learn: there are so many people to talk to. You’ve probably heard that it’s the most spoken language. Today it’s also one of the most written languages online. And with so many Chinese people interested in learning English, it couldn’t be easier to find a friend for language learning. You just have to know where to look for them.
The really good place to look for them is Wechat. Wechat has the same status in China as Facebook does in the US. It is reported that at any moment, up to 900,000,000 people are using Wechat. They’re at work, or in a web cafe, or at home, and the information of the users can be found. If you sign in with your address set to “abroad”, you’ll soon find that many thousands of them are interested in speaking to you! This is a great way for you to learn Chinese, and for them to learn English. I think that it’s a very interesting way of cultural contact too, for ordinary people from around the world to be able to have one-on-one contact.
1. What does the write tell us in paragraph 1?| A．Why his family members want to learn Chinese. |
| B．How the writer learnt Chinese. |
| C．The easiest thing to do is learning Chinese. |
| D．Chinese isn’t so hard to learn as his friends think. |
| A．addresses for the Internet users | B．tools used by people to chat online |
| C．programmes of a computer | D．files you need to get online |
| A．To show what the Chinese people are doing at the moment. |
| B．To tell his friends the importance of learning Chinese. |
| C．To tell a way of learning Chinese. |
| D．To explain the difference between Wechat and Facebook. |
| A．an engineer who has developed WeChat |
| B．a Chinese student studying abroad |
| C．an expert who works at home |
| D．an English-speaking person who works in China |
A lot of people think that being in a foreign country means that you can learn the country’s language well. Some Chinese parents pay a lot of money to send their children to language schools in America.
However, most immigrants (移民) in America don’t speak English very well, even after living there for 20 years.
Being in a foreign country often forces (迫使) you to say wrong sentences, because it forces you to speak.
By making errors, you make your bad habits stronger.
| A．You have to speak because your life depends on it. |
| B．They expect that their children will come back speaking good English. |
| C．And it’s really hard to start speaking correctly. |
| D．Many of them have been making mistakes. |
| E．Instead, they will try to understand you, no matter how bad your grammar is. |
There are many reasons why people from all over the world might need to improve their English: for further study, for business, for pleasure or because
Reading things written in English can really help you to improve your English. If regular books are too difficult,
Also listen to talk radio in English. This can also help you improve your English because
Books on tape or CD are another great way to improve your English. Plan to listen to these as you are on the way home or to school. Many books on tape can be borrowed from libraries, so if
| A．they have gone to live in an English speaking country |
| B．you are listening to good pronunciation |
| C．you don’t have enough money |
| D．you can start out with simple books |
| E．you can rent films that are in English |
8 . Making and following your study plan
Studying is important to students. But it is always difficult to find enough time to study every subject you need.
Then, how to make a plan? Well, you can begin with listing all the subjects you need to study and make sure what you need to do for each subject. Next, you should decide how much time you should spend on different subjects. Now, it is a good idea to study at the same time every day.
To avoid forgetting to follow your plan, try to get into the habit of looking at your calendar every day. Sometimes our plan are hard to follow because some important people in our lives distract（使分心）us from our goals.
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| A．Also, you need to use your break wisely. |
| B．Making a study plan is one thing, and following it is another. |
| C．In this way, you actually have a plan you can remember easily. |
| D．So a good plan helps you make sure of your success in study. |
| E．In order to avoid this, tell people in your life about your plan. |
| F．Once the plan is made, the next thing you need to do is to follow it. |
9 . Ever wonder why you can go over a book again and again and still be lost when tested on what you read? It may be because you haven’t practiced remembering.
Remembering is a useful way to help us learn. Some of us remember best by listening; others by re-reading; and others learn best by using pictures and diagrams(图表). Schools try many of these different ways to help students “download” new information.
But a recent study from Purdue University, US, says that successful learning means being able to recall information at any moment.
“Our view is that learning is not about studying or getting knowledge ‘in memory’,” said Jeffrey Karpicke, the lead researcher. “Learning is about retrieving(寻回、检索). So it is important to make retrieval practice an important part of the learning process.
The research studied two groups of students. Both groups learned something from a text. One group made diagrams about the text. This method(方法) is called concept mapping. The other group put the text away after learning it and tried recalling the concepts from memory.
Then, both groups were tested(被测试) on the information they had learned. Both groups scored well at recalling the learned information. However, when they were asked to return one week later, the group who made diagrams scored better than the group who did not use concept mapping. So by drawing concept maps, we are able to recall information far better, which will help us to study.
Our mind, just like our body, has to practice activities to become good at them.
1. Which of the following ways of remembering is NOT mentioned(提及) in Paragraph 2?| A．Listening. | B．Re-reading. | C．Speaking. | D．Using pictures and diagrams. |
| A．studying knowledge from memory |
| B．getting and recalling knowledge |
| C．practicing drawing photos and maps |
| D．getting knowledge from memory |
| A．心电图 | B．概念图 | C．规划图 | D．线路图 |
| A．they both scored well |
| B．the group that didn’t use concept mapping scored better |
| C．neither of the groups scored well |
| D．the group using concept mapping scored better |
| A．Our minds need to practice to remember things. |
| B．It’s impossible to remember everything we’ve learned. |
| C．How to get knowledge by concept mapping. |
| D．Concept mapping is the only way to learn. |
Everyone has failed in something, whether it is a failure relationship, fitness goal, or examination.
Accept your failure
Things may not always happen as you expected. Even if you work especially hard on something. it's important to accept that it doesn’t work.
Take a rest
If you are tired or need some time to clear your head, take some time off. For some people, this may mean closing a project for some time.
Find out what went wrong
You might feel painful at first, but spend some time thinking why you failed. For example, if you failed a test, think about how you studied for it. When did you start studying and how long did you study? Did you truly learn and memorize the information?
Let it go
Don’t analyze（分析）every little problem that went wrong in the past.
| A．Do you need to study or learn in a different way? |
| B．Instead, pay attention to what you’ve learned from these mistakes. |
| C．Face the failure and determine to improve next time. |
| D．Most adults are much braver when they face failures because of different life experiences. |
| E．Here are some tips to help you deal with failures in your life. |
| F．For others, it may mean taking a vacation or a road trip. |
