How You Can Learn a Language in Only 10 Days

    Most people recognize the many benefits of learning a foreign language: You can travel to foreign countries and feel comfortable, be a more productive and attractive employee in today’s competitive job market, and immerse (沉浸)yourself in the vast cultures around the world. In addition, scientific studies have shown that learning a new language helps to keep memories sharp and naturally improves brain function.

    But do you know that you can learn a new language in as little as 10 days? The Pimsleur Approach to learning new languages help users pick up new languages quickly .Even the FBI and National Security Agency have purchased the Pimsleur Approach.

 The Pimsleur Languag Programs

     The entire Pimsleur Approach is what language learning should be : quick, fun and easy. You will learn a new language effortlessly without any reading, writing or computer use. The Pimsleur Approach has a 100 percent guarantee : speak in 10 days or you don’t pay.

Who is Dr. Pimsleur?

     Pimsleur Approach is a language educator. He noticed that children have an amazing ability to learn new languages quickly. He spent his life developing this course to let you , as an adult , learn a new language as easily as a child would .You might not realize it , but you have already learned one language using the Pimsleur Approach.

Limited availability of special offers

     The company is currently offering new customers a special offer of 50 % discount on tuition fees.The programs which normally cost $100 are now available for just %50. Better yet ,they are also offering a money-back guarantee. So ,if you find you are not learning as fast as they said , simply return it for a full payment .

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1.According to the first paragraph,          .

A. most people have learned a foreign language .

B. you can find a job easily if you know a foreign language.

C. learning a foreign language can improve brain function.

D. it is hard to stay in a foreign country if you do not know its language.

2.If you can not speak a foreign language in ten days with the approach, you can         

A. ask your money back .     B. learn it again for free.

C. change your teacher .      D.ask Dr.Pimsleur for help.

3.We can know from the passage that Dr.Pimsleur         

A. is the owner of the Pimsleur language programs .

B. is a language educator who studies children’s languages.

C. once worked for the FBI and National Security Agency.

D. developed a course helping adults learn a new language easily.

4.Where can we most probably find the passage ?

A. From an educational magazine

B. On the Internet

C. On a poster

D. From the latest newspaper.

5.The author writes the passage to          .

A. introduce an effective language -learning environment.

B. present a language educator’s experiences.

C. appeal to potential customers to use the approach.

D. call on more adults to learn foreign languages.

 

The human brain contains ten thousand million cells and each of these may have a thousand connections. Such enormous numbers used to discourage us and cause us to dismiss the possibility of making a machine with human-like ability, but now that we have grown used to moving forward at such a pace we can be less sure. Quite soon, in only 10 or 20 years perhaps, we will be able to assemble(装配)a machine as complex as the human brain, and if we can we will. It may then take us a long time to render(致使)it intelligent by loading in the right software or by altering(改变)the architecture but that two will happen.

I think it is certain that in decades, not centuries, machines of silicon will arise first to rival(媲美)and then exceed their human ancestors. Once they exceed us they will be capable of their own design. In a real sense they will be able to reproduce themselves. Silicon will have ended carbon's long control. And we will no longer be able to claim ourselves to be the finest intelligence in the known universe.

As the intelligence of robots increased to match that of humans and as their cost declines through economies of scale(规模经济)we may use them to expand our frontiers, first on earth through their ability to withstand environments, harmful to ourselves. Thus, deserts may bloom and the ocean beds be mined. Further ahead, by a combination of the great wealth this new age will bring and the technology it will provide, the construction of a vast, man-created world in space, home to thousands of millions of people, will be within our power.

 

68.In what way can we make a machine intelligent?

A.By making it work in such environments as deserts, oceans or space

B.By working hard for 10 or 20 years

C.By either programming it or changing its structure

D.By reproducing it

69.The word “carbon” stands for     .

A.intelligent robots                             B.a chemical element 

C.an organic substance                       D.human beings

70.A robot can be used to expand our frontiers when     .

A.its intelligence and cost are beyond question

B.it is able to bear the rough environment

C.it is made as complex as the human brain

D.its architecture is different from that of the present ones

71.It can be inferred from the passage that     .

A.after the installation of a great number of cells and connections, robots will be capable of self-reproduction

B.with the rapid development of technology, people have come to realize the possibility of making a machine with human-like ability

C.once we make a machine as complex as the human brain, it will possess intelligence.

D.robots will have control of the vast, man-made world in space

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