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　　What is a language for? Some people seem to think it's for practising grammar rules and learning words. That's wrong. A language is for the exchange of ideas. It's no good knowing all about a language if you can't use it.

　　Many students I have been taught to know hundreds of grammar rules, but they can't speak correctly or freely. They are afraid of making mistakes. One shouldn't be afraid of making mistakes. We native speakers make mistakes, too. And we break rules. Bernard Shaw once said, “Foreigners often speak English too correctly. “But the mistakes that native speakers make are different from those that Chinese students make. They are English mistakes in the English language. And if enough native speakers break a rule, it is no longer a rule. What use to be wrong becomes right. The people not only make history, they also make a language. They can make their own language. They can't make another people's language.

　　So Chinese students of English should pay attention to the grammar, but they shouldn't over do it. They should put communication(交际) first.

1．We learn a foreign language when ________.

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A．we want to practise grammar rules

B．we want to speak it correctly

C．we want to know something about another country and its people

D．we want to learn words

2．While learning a foreign language ________.

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A．don't be afraid of making mistakes

B．don't be afraid of speaking too correctly

C．try to make mistakes like native speakers

D．try to speak it incorrectly

3．The passage says that while speaking English, Chinese students make mistakes ________.

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A．and some foreigners also make mistakes

B．but foreigners never make mistakes

C．and some Englishmen also make mistakes

D．but native speakers never make mistakes

4．The passage doesn't say, but it leads you to believe that ________.

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A．history is never changed

B．history is always changing

C．language is never changed

D．language is always changing

5．The writer of this passage is probably a ________.

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Young people and older people don’t always agree. They sometimes have different ideas about living, working and playing. But in one special programme in New York State, adults and teenagers live together in a friendly way.
Each summer 200 teenagers and 50 adults live together for eight weeks as members of a special work group. Everyone works several hours each day. They do so not just to keep busy but to find meaning and enjoyment in work. Some teenagers work in the woods or on the farms near the village. Some learn to make things like tables and chairs and build houses. The adults teach them these skills.
There are several free hours each day. Weekends are free, too. During the free hours some of the teenagers learn photo taking or painting. Others sit around and talk or sing. Each teenager chooses his own way to spend his free time.
When people live together, rules are necessary. In this programme the teenagers and the adults make the rules together. If someone breaks a rule, the problem goes before the whole group. They talk about it and ask, “Why did it happen? What should we do about it?”
One of the teenagers has this to say about his experience, “You stop thinking only about yourself; you learn to think about the group.”
【小题1】In one special programme in New York State, young and older people _______ .