1 . Every Saturday morning Phoenix Young would take piano lessons with a family friend when he was a child. “At that time we would_______around and take all morning just to have a lesson,” Phoenix_______. “And I loved it.”

But when Phoenix was 12, his teacher proposed that he need better_______.So his mother took him to a music school in the Bronx, and signed him up for classes with a teacher named Bade Simon, experienced bit known for being _______. And she quickly lived up to that _______.Phoenix found the stressful life was_______like his lighthearted Saturday mornings with his former teacher, so it wasn’t long before he_______that he would quit.

One day, however, Bade_______him and said something surprising: “I have_______in you. Keep going. Then the reluctant (不情愿的) student did something surprising ________: he said, “Okay.”

“It was as if all I wanted was just a________from her that she cared about me,” Phoenix said.

That moment________their relationship. Within a few weeks, they were having________during lessons. And within a few months, she was teaching him things about music that he’d never known before. It was the beginning of a long and fruitful relationship.

“I went into________and became a piano teacher, a career I have been doing for 50 years,” Phoenix said. “And I ________it all to that precious moment with my unsung hero, Bade Simon.”

7 . Very few of us become fluent in another language by learning it in high school.

I went to university and then moved across the country to seek a demanding job, married and ________ children. I made a(n) ________ to keep the little hit of French I learned in school, but eventually I realized that this was really ________. I was quite aware that new languages are best learned when young, and that our abilities in that regard decline with ________.

However, just before my 50th birthday, I ________ French classes. After I was tested to see which group I belonged to, I was placed at almost the introductory (入门的) ________. When I looked around at my first class, I was ________ that many of the students were learning French as a third, fourth or even fifth language.

Contrary to my ________ that learning a new language was impossibly difficult, there were people who learned new languages as a matter of course. While I had always thought of myself as a ________ learner, that was no longer the case. I ________ new vocabulary rather slowly. What I learned one week ago seemed to ________ as soon as I learned the next skill. l had to look up the ________ words and language structures over and over. Now, after several years of learning. I can listen to the news in French and ________ 90% of it on the first try, read a novel if the language isn’t too, ________ and hold up my end of a conversation if it doesn’t go too fast. I’ve learned so much beyond grammar and vocabulary. I’ve met people from around the world and all walks of life who have the ________ to make fools of themselves in order to learn something new. I’ve been taught by ________ and inspirational teachers from many comers of the world. Listening to the news as it is ________ to the people of France, I have a renewed understanding of how something can look ________ different from another viewpoint, I’ve leaned that a language is not just a set of words, but a way of ________. But most of all, I’ve learned that it is never too ________ to learn something new.

8 . Learning a second language improves children’s intelligence and makes their job prospects brighter. But the fact is, in New Zealand,_________ in many other English speaking countries, speakers of two or more languages are in the _________. Eighty-four percent of New Zealanders are monolingual (speakers of only one language). This leaves a small number who _________ to speak two or more languages - a small percentage of whom were born in New Zealand.

No matter how proud people are of their cultural roots, to speak anything _________ English is a marker of difference here. That’s why Tiffany Dvorak no longer wishes to speak her mother-tongue, German, and eight-year-old Ani Powell is _________ when people comment on the fact that she is able to speak Maori. As Joanne Powell, Ani’s mother points out:—In Europe, it’s not _________ for kids to be bilingual. But, if you speak another language to your children in New Zealand, it is thought that you are not helping them to _________ society.

But in fact, the general _________ among experts is that learning a second language is good for children. Experts believe that bilinguals - people who speak _________ languages - have a clear learning advantage __________ their monolingual schoolmates. This __________ on how much of each language they can speak, not on which language is used,__________ they are learning Arabic, French, Chinese or any other language.

Cathie Elder, a professor of Language Teaching and Learning at Auckland University, says: A lot of studies have __________ that children who speak more than one language sometimes learn one language more __________, but in the end they do as well as their monolingual schoolmates, and often better, in other subjects. The view is that there is a(n)__________ from the effort of learning another language. Dr Brigitte Halford, a professor of linguistics at Freiburg University in Germany,__________ “Bilinguals tend to use language better as a whole. They also __________ greater creativity and problem-solving ability, and they learn further languages more easily”.

With all of the benefits, why do we not show more __________ for learning other languages?

Parents and teachers __________ in bilingual education say it is pressure from friends at school, general __________ to other languages in English-speaking countries, and problems in the school system that are to blame.

9 . Our teacher asks us to keep a diary in English. I do so because I _______ keeping a diary in English is one of the effective ways to _______ our English writing ability.

Compared with_______ forms of writing, it is shorter and _______ less time. It can help us to_______the habit of thinking in English. _______ we insist on this practice, gradually we’ll learn how to express ourselves in English. In keeping a diary in English, _______ can use the important phrases and sentences we’ve _______ in or out of English classes to describe our_______, and this way we can master and use ________ we’ve learned freely, which will do good ________ us in English learning. But________we certainly run up against many difficulties. In the first place, it often happens that we have________finding proper words and phrases to give expression to our mind. Secondly, there ________ many idiomatic (惯用的) ways of saying things in Chinese. And it is extremely hard for us to put them ________ English properly.

As far as I am concerned, my suggestion is that we ________ always have a notebook and a Chinese-English dictionary within easy reach. Whenever ________ beats (难倒) us, we can first put it down in our notebook and then look it up in our dictionary. We can also turn to our English teacher for ________, if necessary.

In short, I believe that it is of ________ use to keep a diary in English for the development of our________skills.

10 . If you intend to use humour in your talk to make people smile, you must know how to identify(鉴别)shared experiences and problems. Your humour must have _________ with the audience and should help to show them that you are one of them or that you _________ their situation and have the same point of view as them. _________ on whom you are speaking to, the problems will be _________. If you are talking to a group of _________, you may refer to the foolish methods of their secretaries; if you are speaking to secretaries, you may want to comment on their foolish _________.

Here is an example, which I heard at a nurses’ meeting, of a story _________ works well because the audience all _________the same view of doctors. A man arrives in _________ and is being shown around by St. Peter. He sees __________ accommodations(膳宿), beautiful gardens, sunny weather, and so on. Everyone is very __________, polite and friendly until, __________ in a line for lunch, the new arrival is suddenly pushed aside by a man in a white coat, who rushes to the head of the __________, takes his food and walks over a table by himself. “Who is that?” the new arrival asked __________. “Oh, that’s God,” came the reply, “but sometimes he thinks he’s a __________.”

If you are __________ of the group who you are speaking to, you will be able to know the experiences and problems which are __________ to all of you and it’ll be __________ for you to comment on the terrible canteen(食堂) food or the __________ bad taste in ties. With other audiences you mustn’t try to cut in with humour as they will hate an outsider making bad     __________ on their canteen or their chairman.