摘要:B My English teacher at school was not very good. She was not a native speaker. She was always angry and she felt uncomfortable about speaking English in front of us. We did a lot of grammar and reading and writing. I did what she told us to do. I studied when I was told. I finished my work when I was told. I was a good student. I got As, but even after four years, I could hardly say a sentence in English. Later I realized how stupid I had been. When I went to university, I met a boy called Nori. He had studied English at school too. His English teacher was worse than mine! However, it didn’t stop him. He studied on his own. He made friends with English-speaking people and met them every week. He spoke English on the Internet and he wrote to other English speakers. He watched his favorite English movies many times and repeated the actors’ lines. He knew every line of The Lion King! His English was great. I realized that the difference between us was that I blamed my teacher. I thought she wasn’t a very good teacher, so I couldn’t learn English very well. It wasn’t my fault. But Nori didn’t blame anyone. He just did what had to be done to achieve his goals. Meeting Nori is probably one of the best things that ever happened to me. It changed the way I thought about a lot of things. Now I take responsibility for my decisions and achievements. I am more successful in learning English and in life generally. 54. The writer’s English teacher . A. spoke good English B. was from England C. spoke little English D. was always happy 55. The writer by doing what her teacher told her to do. A. knew actors’ lines B. could speak well C. made friends D. got good marks 56. Why could Nori speak good English? A. He had a better English teacher. B. He did a lot of grammar exercises. C. He listened to his teacher carefully in class. D. He found ways to learn English by himself. 57. What makes the writer more successful? A. The change in his way of thinking about things. B. Making friends with English-speaking people. C. The difference between the writer and Nori. D. Doing what his teacher told him to do.

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Speakers of different languages not only describe the world differently but think about it differently too, according to a new study.

Researchers used a cartoon cat Sylvester to study how language was reflected (反映) in the gestures people made. Dr. Sotaro Kita of the University of Bristol’s Department of Experimental Psychology (心理学), showed the cartoon to a group of native English, Japanese and Turkish speakers and then watched their gestures as they described the actions they had seen. He found speakers of the three different languages used different gestures to describe the same event, which appeared to reflect the way the structure of their languages expressed that event. For example, when describing a scene where the cat swings on a rope, the English speakers used gestures showing an arc trajectory (弧形轨迹)  and the Japanese and Turkish speakers tended to use straight gestures showing the motion but not the arc.

Dr. Kita suggests this is because Japanese and Turkish have no proper verb to express the English meaning “to swing”. While English speakers use the arc gesture as their language can readily express the change of location and the arc-shaped trajectory, Japanese and Turkish speakers cannot as easily express the idea of movement with an arc trajectory so they use the straight gesture.

Dr. Kita said, “My research suggests that speakers of different languages cause different spatial (空间的) images of the same event in a way that matches the expressive possibilities of their own languages. In other words, language influences (影响) spatial thinking at the moment of speaking.”

68. 1.Researchers watched the gestures the people made because they wanted to know _____.

A.how language was reflected

B.whether they could express the same idea

C.whether they could describe what they had seen

D.how the structure of language changed

69. 2.After watching the gestures of speakers of the three different languages, Dr. Kita concluded that _____.

A.Japanese and Turkish people couldn’t express the meaning of “swing”

B.English was obviously better than Japanese and Turkish

C.no word in Japanese and Turkish could express some ideas of English

D.every language had its own special way to describe things

70.3.What is mainly discussed in the text?

A.Differences between languages.

B.Differences between gestures.

C.How people use different gestures to express the same event.

D.That language influences the way people think.

 

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