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In the Spring and Autumn period, there was a major minister, Yan Ying. He was very wise and always treated people
with the best manners. So he was very highly respected.
Yan Ying had a wonderful horse and carriage(马车).When his driver sat on the carriage, driving for such a great man,
he felt quite proud about it. One day, as he was driving the carriage past his home, his wife saw him sitting at the front
of the carriage so proud that she found it uncomfortable, and was quite ashamed of(以…为耻辱) him.
That evening, when her husband came home, she told him that she felt sick when she saw how proud he was when
he drove the carriage for Yan Ying. She said,''Yan Ying is a major minister, and highly respected. But he sat in the
carriage without any pride. You are only a driver, but you looked as if you were an even greater man than Yan Ying. I
don't want share the same room with such a person!" He thought about it, and realized that he was wrong. He promised
her never to behave that way again.
From then on, the driver tried to learn from Yan Ying. Yan Ying noticed this, and asked his driver what had caused
him to change. The driver told him what happened. Yan Ying was impressed by what the driver said. Later, he offered
him an official post.
From the driver's previous(先前的) behavior comes this useful phrase"yang yang de yi". We use it to describe big
heads, people who are far too pleased with themselves.
1. Why was Yan Ying respected?
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2. Why was his wife quite ashamed of him?
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3. What did the man do after that?
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4. What did Yan Ying do after he heard what his driver said?
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5. Which kind of people do we often use "yang yang de yi" to describe?
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| On the day that Benjamin Franklin was seven years old, his mother gave him 1 pennies. It was the first money that he had ever had. "You 2 buy something, if you wish," said his mother. The little fellow ran into the street. As Benjamin ran down the street, he 3 what he should buy. Should he buy candy? Should he buy a pretty toy? He had never owned a good toy. He met a larger boy, 4 was blowing a whistle. What a pretty sound! "I wish I 5 that whistle," he said. Benjamin gave all his pennies to the boy to buy the whistle. Little Benjamin was very happy. He ran home 6 he could. "See, mother," he said, "I have bought a whistle." "How much did you 7 it?" "All the pennies you gave me." "You've paid a dear price for this thing. It's only one penny whistle. You might have bought half a dozen such whistles with the money I gave you," said his mother. The little boy saw what a mistake he had made. He threw it upon the floor and began to cry. "Never mind, my child," said his mother, very kindly. "You are only a very little boy, and you will learn a great deal as you grow bigger. The 8 you have learned today is never to pay too dear for a whistle." Benjamin Franklin lived to be a very old man, but he 9 forgot that lesson. Everyone should remember the name of Benjamin Franklin. He was a great thinker and a great doer, and 10 Washington he helped to make USA free. | |||
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B. talented
C. smart
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B. At last
C. At first
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B. is becoming
C .is reaching
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B. often
C. easily
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B. not answer
C. refuse
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| A: Hi, Tom. We have a new English teacher this year. It's Miss Black. B: Really? A: Yes. 1______ B: ls English your favorite subject? A: I like it very much. 2______ B: Why? A: 3______ B: What's your favorite subject, then? A: Music. B: Why do you like music? I don't like it at all. A: 4______ B: When do you have music? A: 5______ But I want to have music every day. So I go to the music club on Sundays. B: Oh, I think you are great !
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Is learning a foreign language ever easy? Yes. If you are five and move to another country, you will quickly pick up the language. But what about for the rest of us who are no longer five, and need to be polite when traveling for business or for pleasure? I think that answer is also yes. Language learning can be easy if you don’t want or need to learn too much.
The key to successful language learning in my mind is not to set the goal too high. It is rather like running. Even if you run twice a week, you don’t necessarily want to be able to run a marathon (马拉松). You might just want to keep a level of fitness. I think the same can be true for language learning.
Let’s get back to the goal. If you decide to learn ten words in a foreign language before visiting the country, you know that you will be sure to do this. However, if you decide to talk to people with great fluency (流利), unless you are quite a talented person, you will probably fail and give up in half-way.
It is also far easier to start learning a foreign language than to finish. In other words, the better you are, the slower it can be to improve, because you will not be able to move further because of grammar, making sentences, learning less common words, etc. If you are only trying to learn a few foreign words and sentences, you will enjoy faster progress, have more fun, and won’t have to spend too much time.
The idea of learning only a few hundred words in a language, and then stopping, isn’t the usual way to language learning, but it can be a very meaningful and enjoyable activity.
1.In the writer’s opinion, it is easy for adults to learn English if _______.
A．they are especially talented people
B．they don’t want or need to learn too much
C．they have to spend a lot of time on it
D．they have a chance to go abroad
2.The writer believes that if you want to be good at a foreign language, you will probably _______.
A．forget your own goals
B．become a talented language learner
C．get tired of learning it
D．reach your learning goal
3.The best title of this passage would be _______.
A．Easy Language Learning B．Hard Language Learning
C．Fluency in a Foreign Language D．A way of Language Learning
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