As young students, you have many dreams. These dreams can be very big, such as winning the Nobel Prize; they can also be small, such as becoming one of the best students in your class.
Once you find a dream, what do you do with it? Do you ever try to make your dream real?
Follow Your Heart by Andrew Matthews, an Australian writer, tells us that making our dreams real is life’s biggest challenge. You may think you’re not very good at some school subjects, or that it is impossible for you to become a writer. Those kinds of ideas stop you from realizing your dream, the book says.
In fact, everyone can realize his dream. The first thing you must do is to remember what your dream is. Don’t let it leave your heart. Keep telling yourself what you want every day and then your dream will come true faster. You should know that a big dream is, in fact, made up of many small dreams.
You must also never give up your dream. There will be difficulties on the road to
your dreams. But the biggest difficulty comes from yourself. You need to decide what is
the most important. Studying instead of watching TV will help you to get better exam results, while saving five yuan instead of buying an ice cream means you can buy a new book.
As you get closer to your dream, it may change a little. This is good as you have the chance to learn something more useful and find new hobbies.
【小题1】Your dreams can be very _______, such as becoming one of the best students in your class.

A.bigB.smallC.highD.low
【小题2】Follow Your Heart is a _______ .
A.movieB.songC.bookD.dream
【小题3】What idea stops you from realizing your dream?
A.I can’t be a writer. B.I am good at some school subjects.
C.I think I am very great. D.I am the best student in our class.
【小题4】Don’t let ____ leave your heart.
A.your ideaB.your decisionC.your dreamD.your book
【小题5】Studying will help you to get better exam results ____ watching TV.
A.withB.instead ofC.withoutD.by

Is learning a foreign language ever easy? Yes. If you are five and move to another country, you will quickly pick up the language. But what about for the rest of us who are no longer five, and need to be polite when traveling for business or for pleasure? I think that answer is also yes. Language learning can be easy if you don’t want or need to learn too much.

The key to successful language learning in my mind is not to set the goal too high. It is rather like running. Even if you run twice a week, you don’t necessarily want to be able to run a marathon (马拉松). You might just want to keep a level of fitness. I think the same can be true for language learning.

Let’s get back to the goal. If you decide to learn ten words in a foreign language before visiting the country, you know that you will be sure to do this. However, if you decide to talk to people with great fluency (流利), unless you are quite a talented person, you will probably fail and give up in half-way.

It is also far easier to start learning a foreign language than to finish. In other words, the better you are, the slower it can be to improve, because you will not be able to move further because of grammar, making sentences, learning less common words, etc. If you are only trying to learn a few foreign words and sentences, you will enjoy faster progress, have more fun, and won’t have to spend too much time.

The idea of learning only a few hundred words in a language, and then stopping, isn’t the usual way to language learning, but it can be a very meaningful and enjoyable activity.

1.In the writer’s opinion, it is easy for adults to learn English if _______.

A.they are especially talented people

B.they don’t want or need to learn too much

C.they have to spend a lot of time on it

D.they have a chance to go abroad

2.The writer believes that if you want to be good at a foreign language, you will probably _______.

A.forget your own goals

B.become a talented language learner

C.get tired of learning it

D.reach your learning goal

3.The best title of this passage would be _______.

A.Easy Language Learning                   B.Hard Language Learning

C.Fluency in a Foreign Language              D.A way of Language Learning

 

完形填空(共15小题,计15分)

通读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后在各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中选出一个最佳选项。

Each of us fails from time to time. If we are wise, we accept these failures as a necessary   1  of the learning process. But too often as parents and teachers we deny this same right to our children. We convey(传达)  2   by words or by actions that failure is something to be ashamed of, that nothing but   3  performance pleases us.

  4 I see a child under this kind of pressure ,I think of Jack. He is a shy, nervous perfectionist. He   5 answered questions—he might be   6  .

I try my best to    7 his self-confidence. And I repeatedly  8  God for direction. But   9  changed until midterm, when Mary, a student teacher, came to our classroom.

One day we were working with math problems. Jack had copied the problems with care. 10  with his progress, I left the children with Mary .When I returned, Jack was in tears. He’d missed the third problem.

At that time, Mary got a box  11  with pencils from the desk we shared. “Look, Jack ! I’ve got something to show you.” she said.“ See these pencils, they belong to Mrs. Green and me. See how the erasers are   12  ? That’s because we make mistakes too. But we erase the mistakes and try   13  . That’s what you must learn to do, too.” Jack looked up with  14  in his eyes---the first time I’d see on his face that year.

Jack gradually believe him that it’s all  15 to make mistakes – as long as you erase them and try again.

1.                A.life            B.part            C.game     D.show

 

2.                A.neither         B.nor            C.either    D.or

 

3.                A.high           B.bad            C.top  D.big

 

4.                A.When          B.While          C.As   D.Although

 

5.                A.always         B.sometimes      C.ever D.seldom

 

6.                A.right           B.wrong          C.mistake   D.fail

 

7.                A.start           B.set            C.establish  D.build

 

8.                A.told           B.asked          C.said D.spoke

 

9.                A.something      B.nothing         C.anything D.everything

 

10.               A.Kind           B.Nice           C.Great D.Pleased

 

11.               A.filled           B.full            C.deal  D.do

 

12.               A.broke          B.new           C.good D.worn

 

13.               A.once          B.again          C.too   D.either

 

14.               A.disappointment B.sadness        C.fear  D.love

 

15.               A.right           B.OK            C.well  D.good