If you want to become a fluent(流利的)English speaker you should take some advice: There are four skills in learning English. They are reading, listening, speaking, and writing. The most important thing you must remember is that if you want to improve your speaking and writing skills you should first master the skills of reading and listening.

    Read as much as you can. But your reading must be active. It means that you must think about the meaning of the sentence, the meanings of the unfamiliar words, etc. There is no need for you to pay much attention to grammars or try to understand all the unfamiliar words you come across, but the fact that you see them for the first time and recognize them whenever you see them, for example in other passages or books, is enough. It would be better to prepare yourself a notebook so you can write down the important words or sentences in it_

    As for listening, there are two choices: besides reading, you can listen every day for about 30 minutes. You can only pay attention to your reading and become skillful at your reading, then you can catch up on your listening. Since you have lots of inputs in your mind, you can easily guess what the speaker is going to say. This never means that you should not practice listening.

    For listening you can listen to cartoons or some movies that are specially made for children.  Their languages are easy. Or if you are good at listening you can listen to VOA or BBC programs every day. Again the thing to remember is being active in listening and preferably taking some notes.

    If you follow these pieces of advice, your speaking and writing will improve automatically, and you can be sure that with a little effort they will become perfect.

46. According to the author, which should you improve first among the four skills?

    A. Reading and writing.                    B. Reading and listening.

    C. Writing and speaking.                         D. Speaking and listening.

47. The underlined phrase "come across" in Paragraph 2 can probably be replaced by "_______".

    A. meet by accident                                B. discover

    C. find on purpose                           D. look for

48. The author seems to agree with the view that_______.

    A. everyone should listen to VOA or BBC programs every day

    B. you needn't practice listening if you keep on reading every day

    C. being good at reading is helpful in improving your listening

    D. you should take notes of whatever you are hearing

49. The passage is mainly about how to_______.

    A. choose suitable listening materials

    B. deal with new words in reading

    C. read as many English books as possible

    D. become fluent in speaking and writing English

    If you want to become a fluent(流利的)English speaker you should take some advice: There are four skills in learning English. They are reading, listening, speaking, and writing. The most important thing you must remember is that if you want to improve your speaking and writing skills you should first master the skills of reading and listening.

    Read as much as you can. But your reading must be active. It means that you must think about the meaning of the sentence, the meanings of the unfamiliar words, etc. There is no need for you to pay much attention to grammars or try to understand all the unfamiliar words you come across, but the fact that you see them for the first time and recognize them whenever you see them, for example in other passages or books, is enough. It would be better to prepare yourself a notebook so you can write down the important words or sentences in it_

    As for listening, there are two choices: besides reading, you can listen every day for about 30 minutes. You can only pay attention to your reading and become skillful at your reading, then you can catch up on your listening. Since you have lots of inputs in your mind, you can easily guess what the speaker is going to say. This never means that you should not practice listening.

    For listening you can listen to cartoons or some movies that are specially made for children.  Their languages are easy. Or if you are good at listening you can listen to VOA or BBC programs every day. Again the thing to remember is being active in listening and preferably taking some notes.

    If you follow these pieces of advice, your speaking and writing will improve automatically, and you can be sure that with a little effort they will become perfect.

46. According to the author, which should you improve first among the four skills?

    A. Reading and writing.                    B. Reading and listening.

    C. Writing and speaking.                         D. Speaking and listening.

47. The underlined phrase "come across" in Paragraph 2 can probably be replaced by "_______".

    A. meet by accident                                B. discover

    C. find on purpose                           D. look for

48. The author seems to agree with the view that_______.

    A. everyone should listen to VOA or BBC programs every day

    B. you needn't practice listening if you keep on reading every day

    C. being good at reading is helpful in improving your listening

    D. you should take notes of whatever you are hearing

49. The passage is mainly about how to_______.

    A. choose suitable listening materials

    B. deal with new words in reading

    C. read as many English books as possible

    D. become fluent in speaking and writing English

－What do you think of the four classics (名著)of China?

－I hear that they are wonderful, but I’ve read _______ of them.

　 A. all　　　　 B. both　　　　　　 C. neither　　　　　　 D. none

When you are learning English, you find it not clever to put an English sentence, word for word, into your own language. Take the sentence "How do you do?" as an example. If you look up each word in the dictionary, one at a time, what is your translation (翻译)? It must be a wrong sentence in your own language.

Languages do not just have different sounds, they are different in many ways. It's important to master(掌握) the rules(规则) for word order (顺序) in the study of English, too. If the speaker puts words in a wrong order, the listener can't understand the speaker's sentence easily.Sometimes when the order of words in an English sentence is changed, the meaning of the sentence changes. But sometimes the order is changed, the meaning of the sentence doesn't change.

Let's see the difference between the two sentences:"She only likes apples. " "Only she likes apples. "

When you are learning English, you must use it as the English speaker does.

1.From the passage we know that _______when we are learning English.

A. we shouldn't put every word into our own language

B. we should look up (查阅) every word in the dictionary

C. we need to put every word into our own language

D. we must read word by word

2. The writer thinks it is________in learning English.

A. difficult to understand different sounds

B. possible to remember the word order

C. important to master the rules in different ways

D. easy to master the rules for word order

3.We can learn from the passage that_______.

A. the meaning of an English sentence always changes with the order of the words

B. the order of words can never change the meaning of an English sentence

C. sometimes different order of words has a different meaning

D. if the order of words is different, the meaning of the sentence must be different

Asia is home to more than half of the world's population and three of the four most crowded countries are in Asia. China, India, and Indonesia alone have more than 2.5 billion people.

Until recently, most Asian nations fell behind the western countries in many fields. Government reform(改革), however, has led to important progress in each of these Asian countries. Across the area, education systems have been improved and economies（经济） have been growing. Most Asian countries now have a system of compulsory(义务的) education. Many countries have recently allowed private universities to be built, which was not allowed before. There are more chances for students to go to university now.

However, in Asia, there are still not enough chances for students to get higher education and many people prefer to go abroad for further study. As a result, India, China, South Korea, Japan and other Asian countries send thousands of students to study in the United States and Europe each year.

Part of the people in Asian countries can speak English, and English has become the most important language for business across the area. The percentage(百分比) is the largest in Japan, Singapore, the Philippines, SriLanka and South Korea. Many people in China, India and Malaysia can also speak English. Some countries have made English part of the primary and secondary education program. In some countries, children begin to study English even at the age of 4 or 5.

1.The population of Asia is about__________         .

   A. 2.5 billion  B. half of the world's population

C. 1.3 billion   D. 6 billion

2.Most Asian countries __________ the western countries in many fields.

    A. are better than             B. are more powerful than

    C. get greater progress than.    D. are not as good as

3.In the past, __________ was not allowed in many Asian countries.

    A. speaking English             B. moving to other countries

    C. building private universities     D. building middle schools

4.Why do so many students in Asia go to study in the USA and Europe?

A. Because they are rich.

B. Because there are not enough chances for students to get higher education in Asia.

C. Because they don't want to work hard.

D. Because they can speak English very well.

5.Which of the following is NOT true?

  A. There're more than 2.5 billion people in China, India and Indonesia.

  B. The economies in Asian countries are becoming worse.

  C. Education in Asia has had great changes.

D. In some Asian countries, English has become very important for business