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Learning a new language isn’t easy. For many of us, speaking the language is even harder! Here are some tips(建议)to help you become more comfortable speaking English.

Tip 1  When you study, make your mouth do what your mind is learning. If you read aloud, you make your mouth and your mind work. This will help you with both speech and pronunciation.

Tip 2 Talk to yourself as much as possible. You need to be comfortable making sounds in English. All over the day, talk to yourself in English! This will help you feel comfortable thinking in English. Then write down what you are saying and read it aloud.

Tip 3  Have a “study partner”.Get together with him or her at least once a week and study together. Speak as much English as you can whenever you meet. Then you can help each other.

Helping yourself talk in English

E–book is short for electronic(电子) book. It is usually read on personal computers. Some mobile phones can also be used to read e–books.

Earlier e–books were written for a certain group of readers and were about only a few subjects. With the development of the Internet, knowledge and answers to a lot of questions mainly come from e–books. This is why the e–book business is increasing quickly.

E–books have many advantages. First, they save time. We don’t need to go a bookstore to buy books. Besides, we can find the topic we want to know about on the Internet, and then we can quickly get many e–books on similar topics. Second, e–books save money. Some e–books cost us little money, and there are millions of e–books on the Internet that we can get for free. Third, more trees are saved because e–books don’t need to be printed on paper. Fourth, e–books make reading more convenient. You can carry a whole library of hundreds of books with you in a small computer or any e–book reader(阅读器), without worrying about their weight.

But e–books have certain disadvantages. They need a personal computer or an e–book reader, and the information can be lost if its file format(文件格式) is not supported(支持) or changed in the reader’s computer.

However, e–books provide us with a new way of reading. That is good.

1.Why is the e–book business increasing quickly? Because______________.

A．earlier e–books are about only a few subjects.

B．people don’t like to read any paper books any more.

C．the development of the Internet makes e–books more useful.

D．most e–books have been written for a certain group of readers.

2.How many advantages do e–books have according to this article?

A．Three.            B．Four.             C．Five              D．Six

3.Which of the following is TRUE according to this article?

A．All the e–books on the Internet cost lots of money.

B．E–books can’t be read on mobile phones.

C．You can’t read e–books without a personal computer.

D．E–books can make reading more convenient.

4.What is the disadvantage of the e–books?

A．You’ll lose the information if its file format is not supported.

B．You can read e–books any time.

C．You can buy cheap e–books anywhere.

D．You can carry hundreds of books in an e–book reader.

5.The writer mainly tells us _________.

A．the information can be lost if its file format is changed.

B．you don’t need to buy paper books in a bookstore if you read e–books.

C．the development of e–books can help save the environment.

D．e–books affor（提供） us a new good way of reading.

1. When you come to Yancheng, you can enjoy the BRT(快速公交). It’s ________ (舒适) and fast. How fast our city is developing!

2. Many people don’t want to live in Tokyo(东京) because of the Nuclear(核) _________ (污染).

3. This  his ______ (九) year in Sheyang. He loves living here. He loves everything here.

4. We are looking forward to his __________ (到达). He is a famous singer.

5. China’s __________ (人口) is becoming aging (老龄化的). We must take action to prevent it.

6. —What’s the w__________ like today?   —The radio says it’s sunny.

7. If you read more, you will get more k__________. Do you believe it?

8. Boys like watching ball games very much, e__________ the NBA. Those basketball players are really wonderful.

9. When you go for a picnic, remember “S_______ is first. Keep away from the dangerous places. ”

10. Everyone must know the i__________ of learning English. It’s used the most widely in the world now.

11. Many __________ (mouse) destroyed the crops near the village. The farmers were   catching them everywhere.

12. He is __________ (true) sorry that he failed to pass the exam. But I don’t believe him, and you?

13. Millie doesn’t dance as __________ (beautiful) as her sister. She hasn’t practice it for a long time.

14. I would like Liu Qian to teach _________ (we) how to play magic. We admire him very much. He is my hero.       

15. Juan Antonio Samaranch(萨马兰奇)’s __________ (die) was a great loss to the whole world. People loved him very much all over the world.

Reading books is a good hobby for all kinds of reasons.
【小题1】__________. You can always keep yourself pleasant if you like reading. This is especially useful when the weather is bad. It is a relaxing hobby too. You can really become lost in a book.
Next, you can read a book almost anywhere: in a car, in a waiting-room, on a plane, in bed-even in the bath. 【小题2】__________! Reading is a convenient hobby as it is easy to stop and then start again.
【小题3】__________. If you read as a hobby you will get better and better at it. This means that you will read faster and will become better at understanding what you read. As your reading improves, you will probably find your schoolwork becomes much easier. Many school subjects depend on good reading and, as you read, you learn more and more.
Some people say that reading is out of date. 【小题4】__________. You have to be able to read to use a computer and, the better you read, the better your computer skills will be. Reading is hardly out of date!
Good readers are most likely to be good writers, too. They are usually good at spelling as well, and have more things to write about. Reading books is a wonderful hobby, one of the best.