If you are planning to learn a foreign language, here are some suggestions about language learning. I hope these suggestions can help improve your learning of a foreign language

Try to set aside some time every day for your study when your brain is at the most time for receiving information. It’s better to study for 30 minutes every day than for 3 hours once a week. If you can spare two or three hours a day, break them up into some periods to avoid brain getting tired.

Go over each lesson several times, perhaps once in the morning, once in the evening and once several days later. Give your brain time to understand the material, but the break between periods of study shouldn’t be too long, or you will forget most of what you’ve learned.

Make sure you’re comfortable with the bases of the language before learning the more advanced knowledge. Without full understanding of basic knowledge such as words pronunciation and spelling, you’ll find it very difficult to learn more.

Setting proper targets is a good way to encourage yourself. You could set yourself a time limit or aim for a certain level.

Once you have mastered the bases of the language, learn to apply them to the things that you’re interested in. In this way you are more likely to remember the words, phrases and grammatical constructions you meet.

You will find that at times you’re making rapid progress, while sometimes you seem to stand still or even go backwards. This is normal when learning a language, so don’t be discouraged.

Making mistakes in a foreign language is nothing to worry about. What matters is getting your message across, not whether you use all the right words, tenses, cases, etc. If you cannot think of the exact words, try using other ones.

1.What is the best time plan for studying a foreign language ?

A.A long period every day.                  B.Several short periods every day.

C.A long period once a week.                D.Several short periods a week.

2.The break between periods of study shouldn’t be too long, because ___________.

A.you will be unable to go over a lesson for several times

B.you will be too tired to continue your study

C.you will waste a lot of time for study

D.you will forget what you are trying to learn easily

3.If you don’t fully understand the basic knowledge, you will ____________.

A.be unable to go on with your study          B.be uncomfortable with yourself

C.feel it very difficult to learn more           D.stop learning more in a short time

4.According to the author, which of the following is NOT true ?

A.Setting a goal can help you make rapid progress.

B.you should use what you’ve learned frequently to remember them.

C.Sometimes you may not make any progress.

D.Mistakes are quite normal in learning a language.

5.The purpose of this passage is ____________.

A.to give some advice on foreign language learning

B.to help students get high marks in foreign language exam

C.to encourage more people to learn foreign languages

D.to comfort those who don’t learn foreign languages well

 

Franz Kafka wrote that “A book must be the ax(斧子)for the frozen sea inside us.” I once shared this sentence with a class of seventh graders, and it didn’t seem to require any explanation.

We’d just finished John Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men. When we read the end together out loud in class, my toughest boy, a star basketball player, wept a little, and so did I. “Are you crying?” one girl asked, as she got out of her chair to take a closer look. “I am,” I told her, “and the funny thing is I’ve read it many times.”

But they understood. When George shoots Lennie, the tragedy is that we realize it was always going to happen. In my 14 years of teaching in a New York City public middle school, I’ve taught kids with imprisoned parents, abusive parents, irresponsible parents; kids who are parents themselves; kids who are homeless; kids who grew up in violent neighborhoods. They understand, more than I ever will, the novel’s terrible logic—the giving way of dreams to fate (命运).

For the last seven years, I have worked as a reading enrichment teacher, reading classic works of literature(文学) with small groups of students from grades six to eight. I originally proposed this idea to my headmaster after learning that a former excellent student of mine had transferred out of a selective high school—one that often attracts the literary-minded (有文学头脑的) children of Manhattan’s upper classes—into a less competitive school. The daughter of immigrants (移民), with a father in prison, she perhaps felt uncomfortable with her new classmates. I thought additional “cultural capital” could help students like her develop better in high school, where they would unavoidably meet, perhaps for the first time, students who came from homes lined with bookshelves, whose parents had earned Ph.D.’s.

Along with Of Mice and Men, my groups read: Sounder, The Red Pony, Lord of the Flies, Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth. The students didn’t always read from the expected point of view. About The Red Pony, one student said, “it's about being a man, it’s about manliness (男子气概).” I had never before seen the parallels between Scarface and Macbeth, nor had I heard Lady Macbeth’s soliloquies (独白) read as raps, but both made sense; the interpretations were playful, but serious. Once introduced to Steinbeck’s writing, one boy went on to read The Grapes of Wrath and told me repeatedly how amazing it was that “all these people hate each other, and they’re all white.” His historical view was broadening, his sense of his own country deepening. Year after year, former students visited and told me how prepared they had felt in their first year in college as a result of the classes.

Year after year, however, we are increasing the number of practice tests. We are trying to teach students to read increasingly complex texts, not for emotional punch (碰撞) but for text complexity. Yet, we cannot enrich the minds of our students by testing them on texts that ignore their hearts. We are teaching them that words do not amaze but confuse. We may succeed in raising test scores, but we will fail to teach them that reading can be transformative and that it belongs to them.

1.The underlined words in Paragraph 1 probably mean that a book helps to________.

A.realize our dreams

B.give support to our life

C.smooth away difficulties

D.awake our emotions

2.Why were the students able to understand the novel Of Mice and Men?

A.Because they spent much time reading it.

B.Because they had read the novel before.

C.Because they came from a public school.

D.Because they had similar life experiences.

3.The girl left the selective high school possibly because ________.

A.she was a literary-minded girl

B.her parents were immigrants

C.she couldn’t fit in with her class

D.her father was then in prison

4.To the author’s surprise, the students read the novels ________.

A.creatively         B.passively          C.repeatedly        D.carelessly

5.The author writes the passage mainly to ________.

A.introduce classic works of literature

B.advocate teaching literature to touch the heart

C.argue for equality among high school students

D.defend the current testing system

 

It is that time of the year when the warm, late Summer days meet the cold, early Autumn nights. The skies on days like these are bright and clear. The air is cool, fresh, and full of the smell of wild flowers. The leaves on the trees are dark green but with splashes of red appearing here and there. It is a really beautiful time of the year. Every where and in everything you can see change.

Birds are starting to migrate. Children are getting ready for another school year. People are looking back on the fun days of Summer and forward to the busy days of Fall.

It is days like these that remind me that while seasons, weather, and nature's colors may change it is all beautiful and it is all joyful. And I am changing too.

My thick wavy hair is now pretty thin on top. Its dark brown color is now getting some gray sprinkled(散落)in it. The smile lines around my eyes and mouth are deeper now and stay with me even when I stop smiling. My glasses continue to get thicker with each new pair and the music I love is now referred to as "oldies". Still, I feel so happy and joyful in my life. I am grateful for my younger years because they taught me so much.

What I have learned and experienced has gotten me to where I am today. I am grateful for my present because now is where I live and now is where I love. I feel happiness in every moment that God has given me, and I take great delight in all the changes life brings. Life is a never ending journey of change and growth. Life's changes never stop but neither does life's joy.

1.The author describes the sceneryin the first paragraph in order to ______ .

A.tell the time of story’s taking place

B.tell the joy of season’s changing

C.show the impressive beauty of nature

D.set off the author’s delighted feeling

2.From this passage we can learn _____.

A.the author is not young any longer at present

B.the season the author describes is the meet of late autumn and early winter

C.the author is a person who used to love music

D.the author doesn’t hope life has changed so much

3.The underlined part in the last paragraph probably means ______.

A.present life is well worth treasuring

B.he is satisfied with where he lives now

C.present life isn’t changing

D.the world is filled with love everywhere

4.From the passage we can see the author’s attitude to life is full of ______.

A.excitement

B.appreciation

C.compassion

D.complaint

5.The best title of this passage is ______.

A.My life

B.My past

C.I love life

D.Life's changes

 

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