To master a language one must be able to speak and
understand the spoken language as well as to read and write.Lenin and his wife translated a long English book into
Russian but when they went to England in 1902, English people couldn't
understand a word Lenin and his wife said, and Lenin and his wife couldn't
understand what was said to them.This shows
the importance of spoken language.
Speaking, of course can't go without listening.If you want to pronounce a word correctly, first you
must hear it correctly.The sounds of Chinese and English languages
are not exactly the same.If you don't listen carefully, you'll find
it difficult or even impossible to understand the native speakers.
Well, what about writing﹖ Like
speaking, it's to exchange ideas.People
usually use shorter words and shorter sentences in their writing.
The important thing is to make your idea clear in your
mind and then to write it in a clear lively language.
Chinese students read too slowly.If you read fast, you understand better.If you read too slowly by the time you have reached to
the end of a page you have forgotten what the beginning is about.When you meet with new words don't look them up in the
dictionary.Guess the meaning to form the context. You
may not guess quite correctly the first time but as new words appear again and
again in different context their meaning will become clearer and clearer. If
you look up every word you'll never finish a book.
Students of a foreign language need a particular
knowledge, the knowledge of the life, history and geography of the people whose
language they're studying. They should study those subjects in the foreign
language not only in translation.In this way
one can kill two birds with one stone: learn a foreign language and get some
knowledge of the foreign country at the same time.
1.In England Lenin .
A.could be
understood by Englishmen
B.could
understand Englishmen
C.and
Englishmen couldn't understand each other
D.and
Englishmen could understand each other
2.In the first paragraph the writer told us .
A.how to speak
English
B.how to read
and write
C.why English
people couldn't understand the Lenins
D.spoken
English is important
3.In the fifth paragraph the writer advised us on .
A.how to guess
the meaning of the words
B.how to read
fast
C.how to look
up new words in the dictionary
D.how to read
carefully
4.“Kill two birds with one stone” means .
A.to get some
particular knowledge
B.to get more
than what one pays
C.the stone is
very useful
D.the birds are
blind enough
5.In the last paragraph the writer advised us .
A.to kill two
birds with one stone
B.to learn two
languages at the same time
C.to study all
the subjects in a foreign language
D.to get some
knowledge of the foreign country whose language we are studying