Here are a few tips we’ve put together to help you learn English well.

Speak, speak, speak

Practise speaking as often as you can—even speaking to yourself is good practice.

Try recording yourself whenever you can. Compare your pronunciation with the master version, see how you can do better and have another go. If you do this several times, you will find that each version is better than the last.

Why not learn with someone else?

It helps if you can learn with someone else. If you can persuade a friend or a family member to study with you, it will make you keep working.

Don’t get stuck by a word you don’t know.

Practise improvising（即兴的）ways of getting your meaning across when speaking spontaneously（本能地）, even if you don’t know the exact words or phrases. Think of things you might want to say whenever you have spare time. Use facial expressions, hand movements, anything to get your meaning across.

Language learning is also about intuition（直觉）.

Guesswork is an important way to learn a new language. When listening to recorded material, you aren’t expected to understand everything first round. If you play the same piece several times, you will most probably understand something new each time.

Build up your vocabulary.

A wide vocabulary is the key to successful language learning but don’t try to learn too much at once. It’s best to study frequently, for short periods of time. Take at most six or seven items of vocabulary and learn them. Put them into sentences to fix them in your mind, then come back to them later.

And above all, have fun!

1.Why should one have himself recorded when practicing speaking?

A. To improve his speaking.             B. To record his own progress.

C. To encourage others to start.           D. To compare himself with others.

2.In the writer’s opinion, which of the following is the most important in leaning English?

A. Speaking.      B. Pleasure.         C. Intuition.      D. Vocabulary.

3.It is implied in the passage that _______ is helpful when you are learning English.

A. body language            B. a good material

C. a good friend             D. a proper dictionary

4. According to the passage, one should ______ when you are learning English.

A. always work with other people        B. be able to guess everything new

C. often review what he has learnt      D. take little notice of grammar

Parents should stop blaming themselves because there’s not a lot they can do about it. I mean the teenager problem. Whatever you do or however you choose to deal with it, at certain times a wonderful, reasonable and helpful child will turn into a terrible animal.

I’ve seen friends deal with it in all kinds of different ways. One strict mother insisted that her son, right from a child, should stand up whenever anyone entered the room, open doors and shake hands like a gentleman. I saw him last week when I called round. Sprawling himself (懒散地躺) on the sofa in full length, he made no attempt to turn off the loud TV he was watching as I walked in, and his greeting was no more than a quick glance at me. His mother was ashamed. “I don't know what to do with him these days,” she said. “He’s forgotten all the manners we taught him.”

He hasn’t forgotten them. He’s just decided that he’s not going to use them. She confessed (坦白) that she would like to come up behind him and throw him down from the sofa onto the floor.

Another good friend of mine let her two daughters climb all over the furniture, reach across the table, stare at me and say, “I don’t like your dress; it’s ugly.” One of the daughters has recently been driven out of school. The other has left home.

“Where did we go wrong?” her parents are now very sad. Probably nowhere much. At least, no more than the rest of that unfortunate race, parents.

1.This text is most probably written by ______.

A. a specialist（专家） in teenager studies   B. a headmaster of a middle school

C. a parent with teenage children   D. a doctor for mental health problems

2. The underlined word “it” in the second paragraph refers to ______.

    A. the change from good to bad that’s seen in a child

    B. the way that parents often blame themselves

    C. the opinion that a child has of his parents

    D. the advice that parents want their children to follow

3.From the second example we can infer that the parents of the two daughters __.

    A. pay no attention to them        B. are too busy to look after them

    C. have come to hate them           D. feel helpless to do much about them

4.What is the author’s opinion about the sudden change in teenage children?

A. Parents have no choice but to try to accept it.

B. Parents should pay still some attention to the change.

C. Parents should work more closely with school teachers.

D. Parents are at fault for the change in their children.

Do dogs understand us?

Be careful what you say around your dog. It might understand more than you think.

A border collie named Rico recognizes the names of about 200 objects, say researchers in Germany. The dog also appears to be able to learn new words as easily as a 3-year-old child. Its word-learning skills are as good as those of a parrot or chimpanzee.

In one experiment, the researchers took all 200 items that Rico is supposed to know and divided them into 20 groups of 10 objects. Then the owner told the dog to go and fetch one of the items and bring it back. In four tests, Rico got 37 out of 40 commands right. As the dog couldn't see anyone to get clues, the scientists believe Rico must understand the meanings of certain words.

In another experiment, the scientists took one toy that Rico had never seen before and put it in a room with seven toys whose names the dog already knew. The owner then told Rico to fetch the object, using a word the dog had never heard before.

The correct object was chosen in seven out of ten tests, suggesting that the dog had worked

out the answer by process of elimination(排除法). A month later, Rico remembered half of the new names, which is even more impressive.

Rico is thought to be smarter than the average dog. For one thing, Rico is a border collie, a breed (品种)known for its mental abilities. In addition, the 9-year-old dog has been trained to fetch toys by their names since the age of nine months.

It's hard to know if all dogs understand at least some of the words we say. Even if they do, they can't talk back. Still, it wouldn't hurt to sweet-talk your dog every now and then. You might just get a big, wet kiss in return!

1. From paragraph 2 we know that __        .

A. animals are as clever as human beings

B. chimpanzees have very good word-learning skills

C. dogs are smarter than parrots and chimpanzees

D. dogs have similar learning abilities as 3-year-old children

2.Both experiments show that             .

A. Rico is smart enough to get all commands right

B. Rico can recognize different things including toys

C. Rico has developed the ability of learning mathematics

D. Rico won't forget the names of objects once recognizing them

3. Which of the following statements is true?

A. Rico has a better memory partly because of its proper early training.

B. The purpose of the experiments is to show the border collie's mental abilities.

C. The border collie is world-famous for recognizing objects.

D. Rico is born to understand its owner's commands.

4.What does the writer want to tell us?

A. To train your dog.                  B. To talk to your dog.

C. To be careful with your dog.        D. To be friendly to your dog.

根据下列句子及所给单词的首字母，在答题纸上按题号写出各单词正确的完全形式（每空限一词）

1.He has lost his i_________ card and is being questioned by the police.

2.She changed a lot and I had great difficulty r___________ her at first.

3.It made her u_______ that she didn’t do well in the final exam.

4.John looked calm, but a_________ he was very nervous.

5.He comes from India and speaks English with a strong Indian a__________.

6.He knew there was a speed limit, but he i___________ it and drove very fast.

7.People from England made v__________ to conquer other parts of the world .

8.Many countries in the world use English as an o________ language.

9.Young people spend most of their time o______ for they don’t like to stay at home all day.

10.The teacher is entirely c_________ about his students’ health.

下面短文中有10处语言错误。请在有错误的地方增加、删除或修改某个单词。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写上该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写上修改后的词。

注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

      2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

When I first learned to write in English, I run into many difficulties．The main problem was in that I always thought in Chinese but tried to translate everything into Chinese．My teacher advised me to keep diaries．I followed her advices．Happily it worked．Soon I began to enjoy talk to myself on paper as I was learning to express me in simple English. One day I wrote a short story and showed to my teacher．She liked it very much that she read it to the class．Everyone said the story was the good one, I was great encouraged by their words．

1.当你和以英语为母语的人士面对面交流时，不要害怕犯语法错误。(native English speakers, grammatical )

2．正是孩子们要求父母给他们更多的时间来做自己喜欢做的事。(request, 强调句)

3．尽管我们学过“even if”,但我们发现运用它还很难。(even if，it做形式宾语 )

4．当朋友生气时,你应劝劝她并好好相处。(calm down, get along )

5．这位老人苦于失去记忆因而无法记录下自己的经历。(suffer from, set down, because of)

6． 我到达伦敦时，碰巧下雨。(happen)

--- An explosion at nuclear power plant in Japan caused several workers injured.

   --- Yes, _________  news came as ________ shock to us all.

A. the; the       B. /; /              C. /; a          D. the; a

After staying in hospital for long, the patient was advised to go to the seaside to   _____   his health.

A. take up        B. pick up          C. carry up      D. make up

It is human activities on the earth that are to ______global warming.

  A. be blamed for                 B. blame for

  C. take charge of                D. be responsible with

_______his writing,the writer forgot to have his lunch.

  A. Was absorbed in               B. Absorbed in

  C. Absorbed   into               D. Was absorbed into