阅读下面短文,从每小题所给的A、B、C三个选项中,选出一个最佳选项。

As an English, I can speak three languages—English, German and French, so do you think the British people are very good language learners? The fact is that they aren't.

Some statistics(数据) from the survey done by the European Commission(欧盟委员会) showed that 62% of the British people only speak English. 38% speak at least one foreign language and 18% speak two or more. Compared with the British people, 56% of the people in other European countries speak at least one foreign language and 28% speak two or more. From this you can see that the British people are famous for not speaking foreign languages and that they are not good language learners in Europe.

And the survey also showed that English is the most widely?spoken foreign language. Many European people can have a conversation in English. That's why many people don't think it is necessary to learn a foreign language.

In Britain, students are not required to learn a foreign language. That means learning a foreign language is only an option at school. In UK schools it is common for children to start learning a foreign language at 11 and many of them give it up at 14.So why don't students continue learning foreign languages at school? Because they think it is more difficult to get good marks in languages than in other subjects such as science or history.

To solve this situation, the British government is looking for different ways to improve language learning at school. One way is to start learning it at a much younger age. Another one is to give school children more choices.

Changing the British attitude(态度) to learning foreign languages may be a hard task but the government decides to try!

1.Which country does the writer come from?

A. America. B. China. C. Britain.

2.Which of the following about the British people is TRUE?

A. They are good language learners.

B. 62% of them speak two or more languages.

C. More than half of them only speak English.

3.According to the passage, students in Britain prefer to learn ________.

A. science or German B. history or German C. science or history

4.In Paragraph 4, “an option” means ________.

A. a choice B. a game C. a mistake

5.What is the best title of the passage?

A. Speaking English B. Foreign Language Learning in UK

C. Schools in UK

阅读短文,并按要求完成第66~70小题。

A group of students got together to visit their old university professor. They talked about their troubles in work and life. After the professor had offered his guests a drink he went into the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and some cups—porcelain(瓷的),plastic(塑料的), glass, crystal(水晶的), some plain looking,some beautiful and some expensive. The professor told them to help themselves to the coffee.

When all his students had a cup in hand,he said:“I don't know if you have noticed, but when all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, the plain and cheap ones were left behind. While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source(根源) of your problems and stress.”

“What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you went for the best cups and were eyeing each other's cups to see if they were better.”

Life is the coffee, and the jobs, money and title(头衔) are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain life, and do not change the quality of life. Sometimes,_by_concentrating_only_on_the_cup,_we_fail_to_enjoy_the_coffee. So, don't let the cups drive you. Enjoy the coffee instead.

66题完成句子;67和68题简略回答问题;69题找出并写下全文的主题句;70题将文中画线句子译成汉语。

1.The students talked about _________.

2.What cups did the students choose?

_______________________________________.

3.What did the professor think caused the student's problems?

_______________________________________.

4._______________________________________.

5._______________________________________。

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