1.(　　 ) The writer put forward(提出) _______ viewpoints(观点) to show us how to master a language in the passage.

　　　　　 A. two　　 B. three　 C. four　　 D. five

4.(　　 ) From the passage, we learn that a good student should know how to think and how to learn.

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　　　 To master a language, one must be able to speak and understand the spoken language as well as to read and write. Lenin(列宁) and his wife Krupskaya translated a long English book into Russian. But when they went to England in 1902, English people couldn’t understand a word they said and they couldn’t understand what was said to them. These days more and more foreigners are coming to China and more Chinese are going out to foreign countries to work or study, so the spoken language is becoming more and more important.

　　　 Speaking, of course, can’t go without listening. If you want to pronounce a word correctly, first you must hear it correctly. The sounds of the Chinese and English languages are not exactly the same. If you don’t listen carefully, you’ll find it difficult or even impossible to understand the native speakers(说本族语的人).

　　　 Well, what about writing? Like speaking, it’s to exchange(交流) ideas. People usually use shorter words and shorter sentences in their writing. The important thing is to make your ideas clear in your head and then to write them in clear lively language.

Chinese students read far too slowly. If you read fast, you will understand better. If you read too slowly, by the time you have reached the end of a page you have forgotten what the beginning is about. When you meet with new words, don’t look them up in the dictionary. Guess the meaning from the context(上下文). You may not guess quite correctly the first time, but as new words come up again and again in different contexts, their meanings will become clearer and clearer. If you look up every word, you’ll never finish a book.

　　　 Students learning a foreign language need a particular knowledge, the knowledge of the life, history and geography of the people whose language they are studying. They should study these subjects in the foreign language, not only in translation. In this way one can kill two birds with one stone: learn a foreign language and get some knowledge of the foreign country at the same time.

Choose the best answer according to the passage.

3.(　　 ) Many scientists were so successful because they had a good education at school.

2.(　　 ) You only need to remember some formulas to work out a math problem.

1.(　　 ) People go to school just to learn some skills.

5. When did the man go to England?

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　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 B

　　　 Many people go to school for an education. They learn languages, history, math and some other subjects. Others go to school to learn skills to make a living. School education is very important and useful. Yet, no one can learn everything from school. Even a very good teacher cannot teach his students everything they want to know. The teacher’s job is to show his students how to learn. He teaches them how to read and how to think. So, many things will be learned outside school by the students themselves.

　　　 It is always more important to know how to study by oneself than to remember some formulas(公式). It is very easy to learn a formula in math, but it is difficult to use a formula in working out a math problem. Great scientists before us didn’t get everything

from school. Their teachers only showed them the way. Edison didn’t even finish primary school(小学), but he was so successful. He invented so many things for human beings.

　　　 They were successful because they knew how to study. They read books that were not taught at school. They would ask many questions as they read. They did thousands of experiments. They worked hard all their lives, and never wasted time. The most important thing is that they knew how to use their heads.

True (T) or false (F).

4. What did the Queen really mean?

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3. Why did the man take off his jacket?

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2. Did the man listen to the headwaiter?

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1. Where did the story happen?

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