What’ s the fastest way to learn a language?

Learning a new language seems hard and frightening as

we look back on the years of grammar and translations in

school．Yet babies communicate t eighteen months and speak

the language fluently before they go to school.

Firstly and most importantly, a child’ s natural language-learning ability exits only in a speech environment free of translations and explanations of translations and explanations of grammar．Secondly, a child’ s language learning speeds up by constant feedback（反馈）from family and friends．Thirdly, children learn through play.

At Rosetta Stone, you know adults can recover the native language-learning ability they once had as children．At every step and in every skill, you receive immediate and actionable feedback, including speech recognition（识别）, advice and attention.

Every act is an act of play for children and there’ s no reason why it should be different for learners of any age．With Rosetta Stone programs, you rediscover the joy of learning languages．Clever, puzzle-like activities produce sudden “aha!” moments and astonishing language discoveries, we see it all the time．A slow of recognition, as though the brain suddenly realizes what is like to learn a language as a child.

Visit our website and find out how you can make your own language-learning ability active with Rosetta Stone．It’ s the fastest way to learn a language.

Which of the following as is TRUE about Rosetta Stone?

       A．You can learn only a few languages.

       B．You will get some advice in time during learning.

       C．You may take part in the language school today.

       D．You can get your money back after seven months.

The main purpose of the text is to         ．

    A．tell adults how to 1earn a language well

    B．present readers to buy CDs of Rosetta Stone

    C．present some problems of learning languages

    D．compare adults and children 1earning 1anguages

If there’ s a$499 program，you order it today and pay        .

    A．$479    B．$459    C．$449        D．$439

The passage is most 1ikely to be a（ n）           ．

    A．education paper                  B．review on 1anguage

C．science report         D．advertisement for a product

What’ s the fastest way to learn a language?

The World Trade Organization (WTO) founded on January 1, 1994, aims to encourage international trade to flow as freely as possible, making sure that trade agreements are respected and that any disputes (争端) can be settled.
In the five years since its founding, the WTO has become well-known as one of the world’s most powerful economic organizations, taking its place alongside the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.
The system of global rules for international trade, however, dates back half a century to 1948 when the General Agreement on Tariffs (关税) and Trade (GATT) was formed after World War II.
As time went by it became clear that the GATT had two major drawbacks—the limited areas of trade it covered, and the lack of an effective system to settle disputes.
After seven years of trade talks ending in 1994. the so-called Uruguay Round finally gave birth to the WTO, complete with an effective system to settle disputes and new rules covering trade in services and intellectual property (知识产权).
Even after seven years of talks and 22500 pages of agreements there were still problems, especially the difficult-to-deal-with areas of agriculture and services.
The WTO. with its head office in Geneva, has 135 members with 30 more waiting to join.
【小题1】Compared with the GATT, the WTO _____.

For many years, scientists couldn't figure out how atoms and molecules on the Earth combined to make living things. Plants, fish, dinosaurs, and people are made of atoms and molecules, but they are put together in a more complicated way than the molecules in the primitive ocean. What's more, living things have energy and can reproduce, while the chemicals on the Earth 4 billion years ago were lifeless.
　　After years of study, scientists figured out that living things, including human bodies, are basically made of amino acids and nucleotide bases. These are molecules with millions of hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen atoms. How could such complicated molecules have been formed in the primitive soup? Scientists were stumped.
　　Then, in 1953, two scientists named Harold Urey and Stanley L. Miller did a very simple experiment to find out what had happened on the Primitive Earth. They set up some tubes and bottles in a closed loop, and put in some of the same gases that were present in the atmosphere 4 billion years ago: water vapor, ammonia, carbon dioxide, methane, and hydrogen.
　　Then they shot an electric spark through the gases to simulate bolts of lightning on the ancient Earth, circulated the gases through some water, sent them back for more sparks, and so on. After seven days, the water that the gases had been bubbling through had turned brown. Some new chemicals were dissolved in it. When Miller and Urey analyzed the liquid, they found that it contained amino acids-the very kind of molecules found in all living things.
61. When did scientists come to realize how the atoms and molecules on the Earth combined to make living thing?
　　A. 4 billion years ago. B.1953.　C. After seven days.D. Many years later.
62. Scientists figured out that human bodies are basically made of .
A.amino acids
B.molecules
C. hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen and oxygen atoms
D. water vapor, ammonia, carbon dioxide, methane and hydrogen
63. Harold Urey and Stanley L.Miller did their experiment in order to .　
A. find out what had happened on the Earth 4 billion years ago
　　 B.simulate bolts of lightning on the ancient Earth
　　 C. dissolve some new chemicals
　　D.analyze a liquid
64. At the end of the last paragraph, the underlined word "it" refers to .
A. a closed loop   B. an electric spark   C.water   D. the liquid
65. According to the writer, living things on the Earth include .
　A. atoms and molecules                     B.chemicals　
C. plants, fish, dinosaurs and human beings     D.the primitive soup

 “Sixteen,” I said. I have forgotten the math question my second-grade teacher, Joyce Cooper, asked that day, but I will never forget my   36  . As soon as the number left my mouth, the whole class started  37  . I felt like the   38  person in the world..

Mrs. Cooper fixed them with a firm look. Then she said: “We’re all here to  39 .”

Once Mrs. Cooper asked us to write a  40 about what we hoped to do in the future. I wrote: “I want to be a  41 like Mrs. Cooper.

She wrote on my report, “You would  42  an outstanding teacher  43  you are determined and you try hard.” I was to carry those  44  in my heart for the 27 years.

After I graduated from high school, I got married and had children.

We needed every penny just to  45 . College and teaching were out of the question.

Then one day I thought of my  46  of how I wanted to help children. I talked it over with my family and  47  to attend college classes in the  48 before work. And when I got home from work, I would  49 . Finally, after seven years, my dream had been realized and I became a teacher.

Not long after I started  50 , something happened that brought the  51  rushing back to me. I had written a sentence with grammatical errors on the blackboard. Then I asked students to come and  52 the mistakes.

One girl got halfway through, became  53  and stopped. As the other children laughed, 54  rolled down her cheeks. I gave her a hug and told her to have a drink of water. Then, remembering Mrs. Cooper, I fixed  55  of the class with a firm look. “We are all here to learn,” I said.

1.                A．question        B．answer         C．result    D．reaction

2.                A．talking         B．shouting        C．discussing D．laughing

3.                A．stupidest       B．happiest        C．least amusing  D．most important

4.                A．work           B．learn           C．play D．watch

5.                A．letter          B．song           C．report    D．story

6.                A．teacher        B．friend          C．reporter  D．parent

7.                A．develop        B．change         C．return    D．make

8.                A．because        B．unless          C．until D．before

9.                A．reports         B．words          C．teachers  D．classmates

10.               A．get by          B．get past        C．go by D．go ahead

11.               A．plan           B．work           C．dream D．idea

12.               A．supposed       B．promised       C．decided   D．agreed

13.               A．evenings       B．mornings       C．afternoons D．nights

14.               A．sleep          B．study          C．rest D．play

15.               A．studying        B．writing         C．thinking   D．teaching

16.               A．teacher        B．life            C．past  D．feeling

17.               A．correct         B．prove          C．check D．read

18.               A．mad           B．excited         C．confused  D．confident

19.               A．water          B．tears           C．seat  D．smiles

20.               A．half           B．most           C．the whole  D．the rest