Is learning a foreign language ever easy? Yes. If you are five and move to another country, you will quickly pick up the language. But what about for the rest of us who are no longer five, and need to be polite when traveling for business or for pleasure? I think that answer is also yes. Language learning can be easy if you don’t want or need to learn too much.
The key to successful language learning in my mind is not to set the goal too high. It is rather like running. Even if you run twice a week, you don’t necessarily want to be able to run a marathon (马拉松). You might just want to keep a level of fitness. I think the same can be true for language learning.
Let’s get back to the goal. If you decide to learn ten words in a foreign language before visiting the country, you know that you will be sure to do this. However, if you decide to talk to people with great fluency (流利), unless you are quite a talented person, you will probably fail and give up in half-way.
It is also far easier to start learning a foreign language than to finish. In other words, the better you are, the slower it can be to improve, because you will not be able to move further because of grammar, making sentences, learning less common words, etc. If you are only trying to learn a few foreign words and sentences, you will enjoy faster progress, have more fun, and won’t have to spend too much time.
The idea of learning only a few hundred words in a language, and then stopping, isn’t the usual way to language learning, but it can be a very meaningful and enjoyable activity.
【小题1】In the writer’s opinion, it is easy for adults to learn English if _______.

I went back to China as soon as school was over at the end of June. And I returned to Canada on August 17th.

It’s      to go back to China this summer, because of the A（H1N1）flu. Everybody seemed to be       . The easiest thing for us to do was to wear masks（口罩）on the plane, as my mom suggested. However, it was not       to wear a mask for ten hours. I decided to put the masks into my bag        wearing them.

Everything seemed OK      the flight. I saw only five people wear masks all the time. When we arrived in Beijing, some      came into the plane and took our temperature. Fortunately,        had a fever. Therefore, I was able to get home on time.

However, everything went wrong after I got home. I became sick, with a sore throat and a fever because I had not      my mom’s words. Luckily, I just had a common       . while I was sick in bed, I thought that if I had listened to my mom at first, I       would have never caught the cold.

It’s always wise to listen to your mom’s suggestions.

1.A. difficult                       B. impossible            C. easy                               D. important

2.A. happy                         B. nervous                       C. excited                           D. sad

3.A. necessary                            B. healthy                C. unfair                             D. comfortable

4.A. thanks for                            B. instead of                        C. because of                     D. except for

5.A. before                               B. by                                    C. after                                D. during

6.A. policemen                           B. doctors                            C. engineers                      D. reporters

7.A. somebody                           B. anybody                         C. nobody                           D. everybody

8.A. followed                      B. heard                              C. known                            D. understood

9.A. stomachache             B. toothache             C. cold                                 D. headache

10.A. differently              B. particularly                    C. usually                           D. probably

根据句意和首字母提示，完成下列句子 （10分）。
【小题1】I         (注意到) the man leaving the house just now.
【小题2】My grandmother raises some ____________ (兔子) at home.
【小题3】There will be a strong ___________ (东北方) wind tomorrow.
【小题4】Try to ___________ (记住) eight or ten words a day.
【小题5】Tom likes eating          (三明治).
【小题6】He usually goes to work by bus.But sometimes he r         a bicycle.
【小题7】Don’t read the story. It is a little b         .      
【小题8】She is afraid of walking t          the forest at night.
【小题9】The box is too h_________. Can you help me to carry it?
【小题10】There are many kinds of shoes. Which pair will you c_________?

“I sometimes get up at three or four in the morning to surf the Intern”

“I check my e-mail almost forty times a day．”

“I seldom spend less than three hours each time on the net.”

“spend more time in chat rooms than with my 'real-life’ friends．”

Do you know any people like these? They are part of a new addiction(瘾) called Internet addiction．According to experts，Internet addicts(迷)spend at least thirty to forty hours online every week．They lose control of the time they spend on the Internet．

    For example，one college student was missing for several days．His friends were worried and 1ooked for him everywhere but couldn’t find him．They called the police．The police found the student in the computer lab: he was surfing the Internet — for seven days straight．

    A study shows that about six to ten percent of Internet users become addicted．The teenager spend more time on the Internet than with friends and family. That’s why some experts worry most about young people．  

Is “surfing the Internet” a hobby or all addiction for you? You may have a problem if you have one of the following symptoms(症状)：

★You go out with your friends less and less．

★You can’t wait to get online again．

★You’ve decided to spend a short time online，but then you spend several hours．

★You do not go to important family events or you do not do school projects because you like to spend hours on the Internet．

What is the solution? Some experts suggest that people set strict limits on their time for Internet use. You have to learn to control it，or the Internet would control you．

1.How many hours does an Internet addict spend online every week according to experts?

2.Where was the missing college student found?

3.Why do some experts worry most about young people?

4.What is one symptom of Internet addiction?

5.How can Internet addicts solve their problem?

6.What might be the title of this passage? (In no more than TEN words)