“How can I learn English well?” This is a question many students ask. In my opin

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“How can I learn English well?” This is a question many students ask. In my opinion, the most effective way is to learn lessons by heart. If you can recite the text and write it out, you’ve learned it fairly well. And if you can tell, in your own words, what the lesson says you’re a very successful learner indeed. Your English will be quite perfect.This is a difficult task. However, if you try to learn by heart only part of each lesson, you’ll find it not half so hard as you might have thought. Learning this way, you will make rapid progress. Of course, writing is also necessary. It helps you a lot on our way to success in English. Equally important is to feel the language. You should be able to laugh at jokes and be shocked at bad news. When using English, try to forget your mother tongue. Instead of helping you, your own language gets in your way. So, never try to see English through translation.
小题1:In the writer’s opinion, the most effective way in learning English is ____.

A．to practise speaking, writing and feeling it

B．to forget your own native language

C．to translate everything into his own language

D．to memorize the English words and grammatical rules

小题2:“Instead of helping you, your own language gets in your way.”This sentence means that memorizing your own language can ________.

A．help you to study English well	B．stop you mastering English
C．make English easy to learn	D．help you notice mistakes

小题3:Equally important is to feel the language. “to feel the language” here means________.

A．to get a knowledge of English by touching

B．to be able to read and write English

C．to translate English into your own by imagining

D．to be able to experience the rich sensation of the language

答案

小题1:A
小题2:B
小题3:D

解析

试题分析：文章介绍了学习英语的最有效的方法，就是练习说，写和培养语感。不能受母语的影响。
小题1:细节题：根据In my opinion, the most effective way is to learn lessons by heart. By heart就是牢记，结合下文可知选A。
小题2:细节题：根据连词so可知，上文是不要试图通过翻译来认识英语的原因，可推理出gets in your way表达一个负面的意思，妨碍你掌握英语。选B。
小题3:细节题：根据下文You should be able to laugh at jokes and be shocked at bad news.能够体会语言丰富的感情。选D。
点评：文章比较简单，和学生的学习密切相关，对学生的学习也有指导意义，题目集中考查细节题。要求考生在阅读时在关键点做好标志和符号以减少回读的次数，以提高阅读的效率和速度。

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University of Oxford is the oldest university in the English-speaking world and it’s one of the top university in the world. There is no clear date when the university started, but teaching began at Oxford in some forms in 1096 and developed quickly from 1167.
There are 39 independent(独立的) colleges at Oxford, attracting students and learned men from across the world. There are over 100 libraries for the students and learned men to use. At University of Oxford, they also provide a number of money for the best students. Of course, if you want to study here, first you have to reach a certain level of English language.
College life at Oxford is very exciting but busy. The groups of college provide a friendly and welcoming home for students while the college are strict with students about their studies. Many Chinese students are studying here. The number of Chinese students at the university has grown quickly over the past 10 years.
根据短文内容，从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出能回答所提问题或完成所给句子的最佳答案。（共3小题，每小题1.5分，满分4.5分）
小题1:What do you have to do first if you want to ask fir studying at Oxford? You have to________.

A．be independent

B．pass a certain level test of English language

C．study English hard

D．be the best students

小题2:How’s the college life at Oxford? It’s full of ________ and has __________.

A．excitement; much school work to do

B．excitement; no school work to do

C．attraction; no school work to do

D．attraction; a little school work to do

小题3:What’s the best title for the passage?.

A．The College Life

B．The Famous Learners at Oxford

C．The Chinese Students at Oxford

D．The University of Oxford

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American researchers found females are the more talkative sex because of a special “language protein(蛋白质)” in the brain.
The study, conducted by neuroscientists （神经学家）and psychologist from the University of Maryland, concluded that women talked more because they had more of the Foxp2 protein. The research, published in the Journal of Neuroscience, found that higher levels were found among humans that were women but in rats that were males. Their findings came after it was previously claimed that ladies speak about 20,000 words a day – over 13,000 more than men. "This study is one of the first to report a sex difference in the expression of a language-associated protein in humans or animals,” said Prof Margaret McCarthy, who led the study. In their study, the researchers attempted to determine what might make male rats more vocal than their female friends.
They separated four-day-old rats from their mothers and then counted the number of times they cried out in the “ultrasonic range”, the frequencies higher than humans can hear, over five minutes. While both sexes called out hundreds of cries, the males called out twice as often, they found. But when the pups were returned to their mother’s cage, she fussed over her sons first. Tests conducted on the parts of the brain known to be associated with vocalcalls showed the male pups have up to twice as much Foxp2 protein as the females. The researchers then increased the production in the brains of female pups and reduced it in males. This led to the female rats crying out more often and their mothers showing more interest to them. In contrast, males became less “talkative”.
The researchers then tested samples from ten children, aged between three and five, which showed that females had up to 30 per cent more of the Foxp2 protein than males, in a brain area key to language in humans.
“Based on our observations, we assume higher levels of Foxp2 in girls and higher levels of Foxp2 in male rats is an indication that Foxp2 protein levels are associated with the more communicative sex,” said Prof McCarthy.
"Our results imply Foxp2 as a component of the neurobiological basis of sex differences in vocal communication in mammals."
小题1:From the second paragraph, we can learn that ________.

A．women always speak more words than men

B．men and male rats have low levels of language protein

C．women and male rats have similar levels of Foxp2

D．McCarthy isn’t the first to find females more talkative

小题2:The underlined phrase “fussed over” in the third paragraph probably means______.

A．paid attention to

B．related to

C．put pressure on

D．counted on

小题3:The researchers carried out the experiments on rats in order to _______.

A．test which part of the brain is key to language in rats and humans

B．prove the levels of Foxp2 protein in humans and rats are different

C．determine the reason why female rats are more talkative than male rats

D．discover the association between Foxp2protein and vocal communication

小题4:Which of the following can be the best title for the passage ?

A．Tests on humans and rats	B．Why women are the talkative sex
C．Sex differences in Foxp2 protein	D．Foxp2 protein determines oral ability

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To master a language one must be able to speak and understand the spoken language as well as to read and write．Lenin and his wife translated a long English book into Russian but when they went to England in 1902, English people couldn"t understand a word Lenin and his wife said, and Lenin and his wife couldn"t understand what was said to them．This shows the importance of spoken language．
Speaking, of course can"t go without listening．If you want to pronounce a word correctly, first you must hear it correctly．The sounds of Chinese and English languages are not exactly the same．If you don"t listen carefully, you"ll find it difficult or even impossible to understand the native speakers．
Well, what about writing﹖ Like speaking, it"s to exchange ideas．People usually use shorter words and shorter sentences in their writing．
The important thing is to make your idea clear in your mind and then to write it in a clear lively language．
Chinese students read too slowly．If you read fast, you understand better．If you read too slowly by the time you have reached to the end of a page you have forgotten what the beginning is about．When you meet with new words don"t look them up in the dictionary．Guess the meaning to form the context. You may not guess quite correctly the first time but as new words appear again and again in different context their meaning will become clearer and clearer. If you look up every word you"ll never finish a book．
Students of a foreign language need a particular knowledge, the knowledge of the life, history and geography of the people whose language they"re studying. They should study those subjects in the foreign language not only in translation．In this way one can kill two birds with one stone: learn a foreign language and get some knowledge of the foreign country at the same time．
小题1:In England Lenin ．

A．could be understood by Englishmen

B．could understand Englishmen

C．and Englishmen couldn"t understand each other

D．and Englishmen could understand each other

小题2:In the first paragraph the writer told us ．

A．how to speak English

B．how to read and write

C．why English people couldn"t understand the Lenins

D．spoken English is important

小题3:In the fifth paragraph the writer advised us on ．

A．how to guess the meaning of the words

B．how to read fast

C．how to look up new words in the dictionary

D．how to read carefully

小题4:“Kill two birds with one stone” means ．

A．to get some particular knowledge

B．to get more than what one pays

C．the stone is very useful

D．the birds are blind enough

小题5:In the last paragraph the writer advised us ．

A．to kill two birds with one stone

B．to learn two languages at the same time

C．to study all the subjects in a foreign language

D．to get some knowledge of the foreign country whose language we are studying

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Looking for some inspiration or the “write” kind of ideas for your creative stories? To start with, some writers describe winter by using their five senses or their imagination. Others write on their favorite winter activity. Whatever you choose to write about, working on a winter story can always help to improve your writing skills. Now read the following story and see if it helps get rid of any icy writing block you’ ve been struggling with.
A Winter Adventure
Beep, beep. Beep-beep: the alarm clock rang. Slowly, I got out of warm bed down onto the wooden floor which the winter had thrown its cold upon. The bitter cold temperature penetrated （穿透）my socks and I hurried to put my feet in shoes.
Looking out of the window, I watched the white snow, soft and thick, drop onto rooftops and trees. Half an hour later, finishing the last of my hot chocolate, I prepared to enter the adventure that waited for me outside. I buttoned my jacket and fastened my boots. Hat on, I opened the door and was greeted by the winter coldness.
In the depths of winter, the early morning did not have the rush of the rest of the year. Most of my neighbours were put off by the cold, and stayed in bed until the sun had climbed higher into the sky.
Unseen by those who remained locked inside their homes, warm in their beds, I enjoyed being alone with the beauty of the wintertime. Those indoors were unable to appreciate the snow-scapes, ice crystals, frost and the crisp（清新的）breeze. For them, the coming of winter meant just the arrival of the cold.
Appreciation depends on contrasts. One cannot love the warmth of April if one has not known the freezing cold of winter. Later that year, the heat of the sun on my skin would be all the more wonderful for my memories of that cold morning and others like it.
小题1:The underlined word “adventure” refers to____________.

A．getting out of bed on the cold winter morning.

B．enjoying the loveliness of the winter outdoors

C．going skiing on the cold winter morning

D．throwing snowballs with friends.

小题2:According to the story A Winter Adventure, most of the neighbours _________.

A．didn’t work in winter	B．stayed up late in winter
C．missed the beauty of winter	D．enjoyed the seasons except winter

小题3:Which of these statements is true according to the story A Winter Adventure?

A．Of all the seasons, the writer loves winter most.

B．The writer regrets that he went out on the freezing cold winter morning.

C．The writer believes contrast makes our experiences of the seasons lovelier.

D．The writer values the autumn and summer more than the winter

小题4:What function does the story A Winter Adventure serve?

A．To share some winter thoughts with readers.

B．To show readers how to work on a winter story.

C．To inspire readers to take more exercise in winter

D．To tell readers how to appreciate the beauty of winter.

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SEE a cell phone cover that you like on Taobao? Forget about placing an order, paying the bill online and waiting for days for it to be delivered to you. In the near future, you"ll be able to get it in minutes just by hitting "print" on your computer.
You might find it hard to believe that you could actually "print" an object like you would a picture. But it is not that hard to understand how it would work. Just as a traditional printer sprays (喷) ink onto paper line by line, modern 3-D printers spread material onto a surface layer by layer, from the bottom to the top, gradually building up a shape.
Instead of ink, the materials the 3-D printer uses are mainly plastic, resin (树脂)and certain metals. The thinner each layer is --- from a millimeter to less than the width of a hair --- the smoother and finer the object will be.
This may sound like a completely new technology, but the truth is that 3-D printing has been around since the late 1980s. Back then, it was barely affordable for most people, so few knew about it.
Last year, though, saw a big change in the 3-D printing industry--- printers became much cheaper. For example, 10 years ago a desktop 3-D printer might have cost £20,000 (200,000 yuan), while now they cost only about £ 1,000, according to the BBC.
Taken out of the factory and introduced to more diverse and common uses, 3-D printing can create just about anything you can think of ---flutes (笛子), bikinis, jewelry, aircraft parts and even human organs. In fact, scientists from Cornell University in New York have just made an artificial ear using a 3-D printer, according to Science Daily. The fake ear looks and acts exactly like a natural one.
However, as 3-D printing becomes more commonplace, it may bring about certain problems --- such as piracy. "Once you can download a coffee maker, or print out a new set of kitchen utensils (餐具) on your personal 3-D printer, who will visit a retail (零售的) store again?" an expert in 3-D printing told Forbes News. Even more frightening, what if anyone in the world could use a 3-D printer to print out a fully functioning gun?
小题1:According to the article, in the future, the 3-D printing technology will ___.

A．enable people to make better purchases online

B．be applied as widely in our daily lives as computers

C．change the way we make many products

D．shorten the time it takes for people to get what they buy online

小题2:What was the big event happening in the 3-D printing industry last year?

A．The 3-D printing technology was taken out ofthe factory.

B．The 3-D printer became more affordable forconsumers.

C．The 3-D printer was used for medical treatmentfor the first time.

D．3-D printing technology began to be used invarious fields.

小题3:How is the last paragraph developed?

A．By analyzing a cause and an effect.	B．By making comparisons.
C．By giving examples.	D．By presenting research findings.

小题4:What is the best title of the passage?

A．Printing out everything	B．Technology in the future
C．Online shopping disappearing	D．Great demand for 3-D printers

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