短文填空：从下列方框中选择正确的单词或短语，并用其正确形式填空。注意：①每个词只能用一次。②每空限填一词

短文填空：从下列方框中选择正确的单词或短语，并用其正确形式填空。注意：①每个词只能用一次。②每空限填一词

How to Speak English Well

Many Chinese students ____1_____learn English for many years still can’t speak good English. This is common among Chinese students. They ______2______reading and writing, but their spoken English is poor.

The____3_____ is that they don’t often speak English. They only learn English by reading and writing it, not by speaking it. They are too shy to speak English in front of others and they ____4____making some mistakes, too.

How can one speak English well?  First, don’t be shy to speak English. Secondly, practice speaking English______5_______.

Complete the following passage with the words or phrases in the box. Each can only be used once（将下列单词或词组填入空格。每空格限填一词，每个单词或词组只能填一次.:（共8分.

Everybody knows that it is dangerous to cross the street without looking both ways in China. However, I had a different experience in Berkeley, a beautiful city in California, US.

I didn’t know what to do when I had to cross the roads    1.    my first couple of days there: I wondered whether I should let the car go first or not? Based on my old experience back in China, I would certainly let the car go. “Who wants to be knocked down by a car?” I thought to    2.   .

One day, I was checking for cars while I was waiting to go to the other side of the road. An SUV came fast toward me, so I stopped and    3.  . However, to my great surprise, the car stopped right in front of me. To be honest, I was a little confused because in China drivers usually try hard to drive as    4.    as possible to cross the road before people step out. Not knowing what to do for a moment, I saw no sign the car was going to move, so I offered a “signal’ to let him go first.