If you’re like most students, you may find it challenging to learn a foreign language. However, there are a few tips you can use in order to earn a top grade —— as well as actually use the skills you’ve learned.
One of the most important and basic lessons in dealing with a foreign language is to learn and understand each concept and lesson before moving on to the next one. If you don’t understand one concept but move on to the next chapter anyway, you’re less likely to understand the new material.
Learning a new language is not only an academic tool, but can help you in your everyday life as well. Being good at another language can help you communicate with other people, and help you when traveling to foreign countries, and even make your resume look better.
And it is important to learn correct pronunciation as soon as possible for poor pronunciation can be hard to break. Native speakers of the language as well as others fluent in the language you are learning will appreciate your efforts to learn correct pronunciation.
Gather outside materials such as books, study guides, books on tape, and travel books to aid you in learning the language. Your textbooks can’t possibly teach you everything you need to know, so seeking outside sources is generally a good rule of thumb to keep in mind.
A significant motivator in learning a foreign language is traveling to the country where the language is spoken. That way, you can see firsthand how the language is used, learn the culture, and meet native speakers of the language. Native speakers appreciate sincere attempts of others who take the time to learn their language.
Seek out native speakers of your new language in your school or neighborhood. They can help you with many skills, including pronunciation, and they can provide immediate feedback on your progress

1. 1.

   This passage is written to        

   1. A.
      explain why learning a foreign language is challenging
   2. B.
      tell us the importance of learning foreign languages
   3. C.
      tell us some ways of earning a top grade
   4. D.
      give us some tips on learning foreign languages
2. 2.

   Which of the following can best summarize the main idea of Paragraph 3?

   1. A.
      Think beyond academics
   2. B.
      Learn each concept
   3. C.
      Plan a trip to use your skills
   4. D.
      Consider a language as a tool
3. 3.

   We can learn from the passage that           

   1. A.
      textbooks are not good for us when learning a foreign language
   2. B.
      learning pronunciation well from the very beginning is very important
   3. C.
      poor pronunciation can be easy to break with the help of native speakers
   4. D.
      seeking too many outside sources will be more harmful than beneficial
4. 4.

   What is suggested doing in the last paragraph?

   1. A.
      Going on a trip abroad
   2. B.
      Practicing with native speakers
   3. C.
      Asking for feedback from our teachers
   4. D.
      Finding a motivator in learning language
5. 5.

   In which part of a website would this text probably appear?

   1. A.
      Entertainment
   2. B.
      History
   3. C.
      Education
   4. D.
      Nature

   Theater managers will often ask people to turn off their phones before a play or other live shows, but sometimes people forget. Broadway shows have come to a stop when a phone has rung in the audience. It is not uncommon to hear phones ring in movie theatres, libraries and even places of worship.

Can you think of anything more annoying than trying to watch a movie while the lady behind you tells the babysitter(临时保姆) where to find the baby lotion（洗涤剂）. The right thing to do would be to take the call in the rest-room, and turn off the phone before returning to your seat.

When did every call become so urgent that we can’t wait to answer it, no matter where we are, who we are with or what we are doing?

Why do cell phones bring out the worst manners in normally thoughtful people? Lew Friedland, a communications professor at the University of Wisconsin- Madison, told CNN Reporter Amy Cox that this lack of manners is because people might be unaware of what they are doing or of the other people around them. He said that this unconscious rudeness has caused even public space to be divided up into small private space. Places like bus stops are public spaces. But when we are there while someone has a private conversation on the phone, we feel like we are eavesdropping .What can we do?  

72. Theater managers will often ask people to turn off their phones because______.

A. people are often against the manager’s advice during a play

B. it is forbidden for people to make a call during a play

C. making phone calls often affects others during a play

D. making phone calls is often popular during a play

73. Which one of the following is Wrong according to this passage?

A. It is unusual to hear phones in libraries now.

B. We can answer a phone no matter where we are.

C. It is polite to make a call while having a meeting.

D. It is impolite to make a call in the bus stop.

74. The underlined word “eavesdropping” in the last paragraph means______.

A. listening secretly                                  B. talking publicly  

C. speaking secretly                                 D. listening publicly

75. Which of the following statements is most likely to be talked about in the next paragraph?

A. Actually people are free to make a call in public.

B. People have to make a call at home every day.

C. People mustn’t make a call in public.

D. People don’t realize they are impolite to make a call in public.

Have you ever picked a job based on the fact that you were good at it but later found it made you feel very uncomfortable over time? When you select your career, there’s whole lot more to it than assessing your skills and matching them with a particular position．If you ignore your personality, it will hurt you long-term regardless of your skills or the job's pay．There are several areas of your personality that you need to consider to help you find a good job．Here are a few of those main areas:

1） Do you prefer working alone or with other people?

There are isolating（使孤立） jobs that will drive an outgoing person crazy and also interactive jobs that will make a shy person uneasy．Most people are not extremes in either direction but do have a tendency that they prefer．There are also positions that are sometimes a combination of the two, which may be best for someone in the middle who adapts easily to either situation.

2） How do you handle change?

Most jobs these days have some elements of change to them, but some are more than others．If you need stability in your life, you may need a job where the changes don't happen so often．Other people would be bored of the same daily routine.

3） Do you enjoy working with computers?

I do see this as a kind of personality characteristic．There are people who are happy to spend more than 40 hours a week on a computer, while there are others who need a lot of human interaction throughout the day．Again, these are extremes and you'll likely find a lot of positions somewhere in the middle as well.

4） What type of work environment do you enjoy? 

This can range from being in a large building with a lot of people you won't know immediately to a smaller setting where you'll get to know almost all the people there fairly quickly．

5） How do you like to get paid?  

Some people are motivated by the pay they get, while others feel too stressed to be like that．The variety of payment designs in the sales industry is a typical example for this.

Anyway, these are a great starting point for you．I've seen it over and over again with people that they make more money over time when they do something they love．It may take you a little longer, but making a move to do what you have a passion for can change the course of your life for the better.

1．This passage mainly talks about the importance of _______in jobs.

       A．different payment                              B．personalities

       C．personal skills                                   D．job’s pay

2．Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

      A．Isolating jobs usually drive people mad.

      B．Interactive jobs make people shy easily.

      C．Extreme people tend to work with others.

      D．Almost everyone has a tendency in jobs.

3．What is the missing word about a job search in the following chart?

      A．Design               B．Skills                 C．Cooperation        D．Hobbies

4．What is the best title for this passage?

       A．Lifestyles and Job Pay                          B．Jobs and Environment

       C．Job Skills and Abilities     D．Personalities and Jobs

If you are looking for an animal to take the title of “most violent fish in the sea”, then the tiger puffer (河豚) fish would have to be a strong contestant. Not only is it deadly poisonous --- though that doesn’t stop people trying to eat it --- but it is also able to scare off enemies by inflating itself to become much larger than normal, when it is young it even chews on its own brothers and sisters.
Tiger puffer fish attach their eggs to rocks near the bottom of the sea, often at the mouths of bays. Then the larvae (幼鱼) move to the entries of rivers and lakes once they have grown a little. Then, having put on a lot of weight, they head out to sea. There’s no innocent childhood for the puffer fish, as Shin Oikawa of Kyushu University in Japan and his colleagues found out when they put the larvae of tiger puffer fish in the lab and monitored them for two months. They found that the larvae went through three steps in which their metabolic(新陈代谢) rates increased dramatically when they reached body weights of 0.002g, 0.01g, and 0.1g. When a larva went through one of these steps, its behavior also changed. For instance, once a larva had passed the first level it would have grown its first tooth and could start attacking larvae that had not yet reached that stage. Similarly, any larva that had reached the 0.01g or 0.1g levels would start attacking lighter larvae.
The researchers noted that the baby fish had a “relatively small mouth”, so rather than swallowing their brothers and sisters whole, they would bite pieces out of them. Despite this limitation, the fish caused plenty of deaths --- up to 12 per cent of the deaths that happened in the lab each day.
Those fish that grew fast enough to be able to chew on their fellows had an advantage. The extra food accelerated their growth and development. Tiger puffer fish are likely to be faster and swifter, so they can deal better with enemies.
As the name suggests, puffer fish can inflate to make themselves seem much larger than they really are, thus scaring off enemies. They do this by filling their stomachs, which are extremely elastic(弹性的), with water. If that’s not enough of a threat, the tiger puffer fish --- like most of the other puffer fish in the family --- carries a deadly toxin(毒素). Eat one puffer fish and the poison will paralyze (瘫痪) your muscles, including the muscles responsible for breathing, so death is usually caused by a lack of oxygen. Famously, the fish is a delicacy in Japan, where highly qualified chefs produce dishes that contain the safe level of the poison. Interestingly, the puffer fish does not go to the trouble of producing the poison itself. Instead, it hosts bacteria (细菌) that produce the stuff. It obtains these bacteria from its diet, so the youngest adult fish are not poisonous.
【小题1】All of the following statements account for the violence of puffer fish except that_____.