题目内容

Speak, speak, speak!
Practise speaking as often as you can. Speaking to yourself is good practice.
Try recording yourself whenever you can.
Compare your pronunciation with the master version(原版)to see how you can do better and have another go. If you do this several times, you will find that each time is better than last.
Why not learn with someone else?
It helps if you can learn with someone else. If you can persuade a friend or family member to study with you, it will make you keep working.
Don't get stuck by a word you don't know.
Practise improving ways of getting your meaning across when speaking spontaneously(本能地),even if you don't know the exact words or phrases. Think of things you might want to say whenever you have spare time. Use facial expressions, hand movements, anything to make yourself understood.
Language learning is also about intuition(直觉).
Guesswork is an important way to learn a new language. When listening to recorded material, you aren't expected to understand everything first time round. If you play the same piece several times, you will most probably understand something new each time.
Build up your vocabulary.
A wide vocabulary is the key to successful language learning but don’t try to learn too much at once. It’s best to study frequently, for short periods of time. Take at most six or seven items of vocabulary and learn them. Put them into sentences to fix them in your mind, and then come back to them later.
And above all, have fun!

  1. 1.

    What’s the purpose of this passage?

    1. A.
      To tell us the importance of practicing speaking as often as we can
    2. B.
      To tell us a few tips to help us learn a new language well
    3. C.
      To tell us that guesswork is an important way to learn a new language
    4. D.
      To tell us that a wide vocabulary is the key to successful language learning
  2. 2.

    What’s the meaning of the underlined phrase in the first part?

    1. A.
      Have another try or attempt
    2. B.
      Move away from a place to another
    3. C.
      Enter a certain state or condition
    4. D.
      Follow or take a certain course
  3. 3.

    To learn English well, we shouldn’t _______ according to the passage

    1. A.
      practice speaking as often as possible
    2. B.
      study frequently, for short periods of time to build up our vocabulary
    3. C.
      try to understand everything and stop when we meet a new word
    4. D.
      try to persuade a friend or family member to study with us
  4. 4.

    According to the passage, to learn a new language well, the most important thing is ______

    1. A.
      speaking as much as possible
    2. B.
      having fun
    3. C.
      a wide vocabulary
    4. D.
      guesswork
BACB
试题分析:文章主要讲解了如何来更好的学习一门语言,提出了几点建议。
1.主旨题。文章介绍了学习语言的秘诀,所以本文的写作目的是告诉我们学好一门语言的一些技巧,故选B
2.推断题。根据后文If you do this several times, you will find that each time is better than last.可知要反复的进行练习,对比,你就会发现每一次都比上次好,故选A
3.细节题。从文章Don't get stuck by a word you don't know.及When listening to recorded material, you aren't expected to understand everything first time round.可知我们没有必要去理解所有事情并且不应该被一个生单词困住,故选C
4.细节题。最后一段And above all, have fun!最重要的是有乐趣,故选B
考点:教育类说明文
点评:本文文脉清晰,结构很好把握。说明文是历年高考很常见的文体,对于科技类的说明文比较难,而对于说物的文体较容易。本文中,把握好作者对语言学习提出的各个建议。同时,此类文章细节题居多,在对文章看懂了的基础再仔细对比选项和文章,即可得出答案。
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When You Speak

  Everyday we go to school and listen to the teacher, and the teacher will ask us some questions. Sometimes, the classmates will ask your opinions of the work of the class. When you are telling others in the class what you have found out about these topics, remember that they must be able to hear what you are saying. You are not taking part in a family conversation or having a chat with friends—you are in a slightly unnatural situation where a large group of people will remain silent, waiting to hear what you have to say. You must speak so that they can hear you—loudly enough and clearly enough but without trying to shout or appearing to force yourself.

  Remember, too, mat it is the same if you are called to an interview whether it is with a professor of your school or a government official(政府官员)who might meet you. The person you are seeing will try to put you at your ease but the situation is somewhat different from that of n ordinary conversation. You must take special care that you can be heard.

1.When you speak to the class, you should speak ________.

[  ]

A.loudly
B.as loudly as possible
C.in a low voice
D.forcefully

2.Usually, when you speak to the class, the class is ________.

[  ]

A.noisy
B.serious
C.quiet
D.having a rest

3.The situation in the class is ________ that in your house.

[  ]

A.not very different from
B.sometimes the same as
C.sometimes not the same as
D.not the same as

4.If you are having a conversation with an official, the most important thing for you is ________.

[  ]

A.to make sure that you can be heard
B.to put the official at ease
C.to show your ability
D.to be very gentle

5.The main idea of this passage is that ________.

[  ]

A.we must speak loudly

B.we must use different ways at different situations

C.we must keep silent at any time

D.we must talk with the class


What is language for? Some people seem to think it's for practising grammar rules and learning lists of words—the longer the lists,the better. That's wrong. Language is for the exchange(交流)of ideas and information. It's meaningless knowing all about a language if you can't use it freely. Many students I have met know hundreds of grammar rules, but they can't speak correctly or fluently(流利地). They are afraid of making mistakes. One shouldn't be afraid of making mistakes when speaking a foreign language. Native speakers make mistakes and break rules, too. Bernard Shaw once wrote, "Foreigners often speak English too correctly. "But the mistakes that native speakers make are different from those that Chinese students make. They're English mistakes in the English language. And if enough native speakers break a rule, it is no longer a rule. What used to be wrong becomes right. People not only make history, they make language. But a people can only make its own language. It can't make another people's language. So Chinese students of English should pay attention to grammar, but they shouldn't overdo(做过头)it. They should put communication(交际)first. 
1.Language is used to ________.
A. express oneself               B. practice grammar rules
C. talk with foreigners only            D. learn lists of words
2.Generally, when an American or an Englishman speaks English, he ________.
A. never makes mistakes            B. often makes mistakes
C. can't avoid making mistakes         D. always makes mistakes
3."Foreigners often speak English too correctly. "This sentence means that ________.
A. foreigners speak correct English   
B. foreigners speak incorrect English
C. foreigners speak English according to the grammar rules
D. foreigners never make mistakes when they speak English
4.If too many native speakers break a rule,  ________.
A. what they use will become right       B. they are against the law
C. they should say sorry to others        D. they will become heroes

Is language, like food, a basic human need? Judging from the extreme experiment of Frederick in the 13th century, it may be. Hoping to discover what language a child would speak if he heard no mother tongue he told the nurses to keep silent.

All the babies died before the first year. But clearly there was more than language deprivation (剥夺,丧失). What was missing was good mothering. Without good mothering, in the first year of life especially, the ability to survive is seriously affected.

Today no such extreme deprivation exists as that ordered by Frederick. Nevertheless, some children are still backward in speaking. Most often the reason for this is that the mother is insensitive to signals of the baby, whose brain is programmed, to mop up language rapidly. There are critical times, it seems when children learn more rapidly. If these sensitive periods are neglected, the ideal time for acquiring skills passes and they might never be learned so easily again.

Linguists suggest that speech milestones are reached in a fixed order and at a constant age, but there are cases where speech has started late in a child who eventually turns out to be of high IQ.

Recent evidence suggests that a baby is born with the ability to speak. What is special about man’s brain, compared with that of the monkey, is the complex system which enables a child to connect the sight and feel of, say, a teddy bear with the sound pattern “teddy bear”.

But speech has to be developed, and this depends on interaction between the mother and the child, where the mother recognizes the signals in the child’s babbling, clinging, grasping, crying, smiling, and responds to them. Insensitivity of the mother to these signals reduces the interaction because the child gets discouraged and sends out only the obvious signals. Sensitivity to the child’s nonverbal (非语言的) signals is basic to the growth and development of language.

1.Frederick’s experiment was extreme because _________.

A.he wanted to prove children are born with ability to speak

B.he wanted his nurses to say another language

C.he was unkind to the nurses

D.he ignored the importance of mothering to the babies

2.The reason that some children are backward in speaking is most likely that _________.

A.they do not listen carefully to their mothers

B.their mothers do not respond to their attempts to speak

C.their brain has to absorb too much language at once

D.their mothers are not intelligent enough to help them

3.In paragraph 3, by “critical times” the author means _________.

A.difficult periods in the child’s life

B.moments when the child becomes critical towards its mother

C.important stages in the child’s development

D.times when mothers often neglect their children

4.If a child starts to speak later than others, he will _________ in future.

A.have a high IQ                          B.be less intelligent

C.not necessarily be backward               D.be insensitive to verbal signals

5.If the mother seldom responds to her child’s signals, _________.

A.the child will be able to speak properly

B.the child will continue to give out signals

C.the child will invent a language of own

D.the child will make little effort to speak

 

In a few years, you might be able to speak Chinese, Korean, Japanese, French, and English -- and all at the same time. This sounds incredible, but Alex Waibel, a computer science professor at US' s Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and Germany' s University of Karlsruhe, announced last week that it may soon be reality. He and his team have invented software and hardware that could make it far easier for people who speak different languages to understand each other.

One application, called Lecture Translation, can easily translate a speech from one language into another. Current translation technologies typically limit speakers to certain topics or a limited vocabulary. Users also have to be trained how to use the programme.

Another prototype (雏形机) can send translations of a speech to different listeners depending on what language they speak. "It is like having a simultaneous translator right next to you but without disturbing the person next to you," Waibel said.

Prefer to read? So-called Translation Glasses transcribe (转录) the translations on a tiny liquid-crystal(液晶) display (LCD) screen.

Then there' s the Muscle Translator. Electrodes (电极) capture the electrical signals from facial muscle movements made naturally when a person is mouthing words. The signals are then translated into speech. The electrodes could be replaced with wireless chips implanted (植入) in a person' s face, according to researchers.

During a demonstration (演示) held last Thursday in CMU' s Pittsburgh campus, a Chinese student named Stan Jou had 11 tiny electrodes attached to the muscles of his cheeks, neck and throat. Then he mouthed -- without speaking aloud -- a few words in Mandarin(普通话) to the audience. A few seconds later, the phrase was displayed on a computer screen and spoken out by the computer in English and Spanish: "Let me introduce our new prototype".

This particular gadget (器械), when fully developed, might allow anyone to speak in any number of languages or, as Waibel put it, "to switch your mouth to a foreign language". "The idea behind the university' s prototypes is to create 'good enough' bridges for cross-cultural exchanges that are becoming more common in the world," Waibel said.

With spontaneous (自发的) translators, foreign drivers in Germany could listen to traffic warnings on the radio, tourists in China could read all the signs and talk with local people, and leaders of different countries could have secret talks without any interpreters there.

1. What kind of prototype did the Chinese student named Stan Jou try?

A. Lecture Translation.            B. Translation Glasses.

C. Muscle Translator.             D. We don' t know.

2.What is the purpose of inventing the translators?

    A. To help students to learn English.

    B. To help people to watch foreign TV programs.

    C. To help people travel in foreign countries.

    D. To promote cultural exchanges between countries.

3. What is the best title of this text?

    A. Speak different languages at the same time?

    B. Flow to learn to speak foreign languages?

    C. New ways to learn foreign languages

D. You' re welcome to learn foreign languages

 

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