Many students in China are learning English. Some of these students are small children  Others are teenagers(青少年). Many are adults(成年人). Some learn at school, others study by themselves. A few learn English language over the radio, on television or in films. One must work hard to learn another language.

Why do all these people want to learn English? It is difficult to answer that question.  Many boys and girls learn English at school because it is one of their subjects. They study their own(自己的) language, Maths and English. Some people learn English because it is useful(有用的) for their work. Many people often learn English for their further studies, because at college or university(大学) some of their books are in English. Other people learn English because they want to read newspapers and magazines in English

1.Many students in China ________ English

A. are learning     B. aren't learning         C. learning       D. learn

2. If one wants to learn another language well, he must ________.

          A. learn at school             B. study by himself

          C. work hard                 D. study on television

3. The underlined sentence '1t is difficult to answer that question, means '         .'

         A. That question is not difficult to answer

         B. That question is not hard to answer

         C. It is easy to answer that question

         D. It is hard to answer that question

4. 'Their own language' means ________.

          A. Chinese             B. English      C. French         D. Japanese

5.The underlined phrase 6study by themselves' means '________’ in Chinese.

           A. 和他们一起学习     B. 自学      C. 向他们学习    D. 通过学习

　　Many of you are studying English and you may be __1__ why it is so difficult to learn. It’s actually not too difficult to learn ___2___ you know some ___3___ about the language and culture that it reflects (反映), Perhaps the first thing you need to know about English is that it is made up of several other languages ___4___ French, German, Latin, Greek and Anglo Saxon. In addition, there are words ___5___ Spanish in English and many American Indian words and names, even some Chinese and Japanese ___6___ can be found in the English language. This borrowing of words ___7___ other languages is ___8___ of the key reasons ___9___ some of the difficulties that people meet with ___10___ they are learning English.