阅读理解、完形填空

五、阅读理解、完形填空题(共5道小题)

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How do you acquire confidence? Speak English with friends first because with them you can speak f reely without feeling shy.

Then try your ability with your teachers and with foreigners if you have an opportunity to meet the m. Don’t be afraid of mistakes. Nobody is above mistakes; and don’t be afraid to ask questions about th ings you don’t know. This is the way to acquire knowledge.

Not until you begin to think in English rather than Chinese can you be said to know the language. This is not a superhuman achievement—only a question of practice. Thinking in English will help you to truly understand how the language is spoken.

Read novels to build vocabulary, thus gaining confidence. Start with small volumes of 30 to 40 page s. Write down any new word you discover and look it up in your dictionary. Learn how to use the new word by making sentences with it. Bring the word to your teacher to have it explained more fully.

Don’t be angry when you learn a new word today and forget it tomorrow. To forget is a natural pro cess; to remember is unnatural and requires effort. Of 10 new words learnt in a day, only two or three will remain in the memory. The others you will forget and have to relearn.

When learning them for the second time, they will come more easily, and this time you probably wil l remember nearly all of them. A small minority, however, may elude you again, and have to be learnt for a third time. Constant repetition is necessary.

(1).[本题2分] You can gain confidence by speaking English with the following people but ______?

(A) family members

(B) foreigners

(C) teachers

(D) friends

(2).[本题2分] When can you be said to know English?

(A) When you have confidence with English.

(B) When you are not afraid to ask questions.

(C) When you can think in English.

(D) When you have built vocabulary.

(3).[本题2分] We can build vocabulary in the following ways except ______.

(A) reading novels

(B) often speaking with foreigners

(C) looking up the new words in a dictionary, making sentences with them, etc.

(D) constant repetition of new words

(4).[本题2分] What are suggested to do if you always forget the new words?

(A) To read novels.

(B) To relearn constantly.

(C) To be angry.

(D) To practice more.

(5).[本题2分] What's the best title for the passage?

(A) Ways to Gain Confidence with English

(B) Learning New Words

(C) Thinking in English

(D) Communicating in English

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The other day I asked a group of my students how they like to learn English. The first person to sp eak up was Max. This was no surprise—unlike many Hong Kong students, Max has never been reluctant to speak.

“I like to learn by speaking,” said Max. “I specially love to speak to native English speakers when I can find them. I try to talk to my friends in English, too. Um, what else? I like to watch TV and mo vies in English, and I like to learn new words by hearing them.”

“How about you?” I asked Veronica. “Do you like to learn in these ways?”

“Oh, no,” she said, “I could never learn like that. I need to have a textbook, and I like the teacher t o explain everything to me. I have a notebook, and I write everything down. I like to study grammar, a nd I like to learn by reading. Max says he likes to learn new words by hearing them. I like to learn ne w words by seeing.”

Veronica’s classmate Jackie was more similar to Max. She said she liked to learn by watching movie s and videos. She also liked playing games, listening to cassettes, talking in pairs and pract icing English outside the classroom. The last person to give his opinion was Joseph. Like Veronica, he li ked to study grammar, although he didn’t feel the same need to have a teacher. He liked to learn indepe ndently to find his own mistakes, and to read books and newspapers.

These four people correspond to four learner “types” that a former colleague of mine, Ken Willing, f ound in a study he did some years ago. Max can be classified as a “communicative” learner, Veronica a