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　　I'm Robert Lee, a senior at a Chinese university. I am planning to study Electronic Engineering in the United States this coming summer if I am lucky enough to be admitted to Miami University. However, I am a bit nervous about my English, so I am spending a lot of time studying it hard. I think my pronunciation isn't accurate enough to make myself understood, and I might easily get confused. Also, I find the grammar very difficult. Sometimes, I know every word in an expression, but I don't know what it implies. Honestly, I understand very little.

　　It is funny because I used to study English just for entertainment, to kill time, but now I have a particular purpose for it, so I have found a tutor for myself. My tutor holds her master's degree in education and is very helpful. She assigns me quite a lot of homework, and wants me to memorize all the phrases and expressions. She says it is necessary to practice as much as possible until they are fixed in my mind. And the more I apply them in real situations, the more natural they will become. However, I find it so boring to practice so much and I'm getting discouraged. My tutor also says language is a tool, and the people use it to express their ideas, thoughts and feelings, and all these are determined by culture. As a result, when I understand the cultural background, I can use the language better. She also asks me to read a lot. My tutor sounds like a professor, and I feel lucky to have her as my tutor.

　　My American friend Burt helps me a lot, too. He knows my problem because I have exchanged my ideas with him. He told me to relax. He said actually the most efficient way to reach my goal would be to have a tape recorder or a CD player. Either the CDs or tapes have native voices, and I can learn them by listening again and again and imitating the sounds as many times as I wish. I think this is a good idea. That way I' m not only training my listening comprehension but also my speaking abilities.

1．Robert Lee is ________.

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A．an American student studying in a Chinese university

B．an American student planning to study in a Chinese university

C．a Chinese student admitted to Miami University

D．a Chinese student planning to study at Miami University

2．The phrase “to kill time” ( Line 1, para. 2 ) means ________.

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A．to spend a lot of time

B．to save time by every means

C．to pass time by doing useless things

D．to study for fun

3．Robert Lee thinks his tutor sounds like a professor because ________.

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A．she holds a master's degree in education

B．she assigns a lot of homework

C．her view on language and culture is quite academic

D．she uses English to express her thoughts and feelings

4．Which of the following statement is true according to the passage?

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A．Language is a tool for people to communicate with each other.

B．Too much language practicing is useless.

C．Cultural background can be ignored in learning a foreign language.

D．Extensive reading should be discouraged in learning a language.

5．According to Lee's friend, listening to CDs and tapes ________.

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A．is a relaxing way to learn a language

B．only helps to improve her listening comprehension

C．is good only for training one's speaking ability

D．is the only way to imitate the native voices

单词填空，每空填一词（满分5分）。

Keep indoors and don’t  ____________（暴露）your skin to the sun.

They have put f_____________ a plan for reducing the level of traffic.

Considering that he was always a careful person, we decided to __________(采纳) his idea at last.

_______ （除了） from school work, I spend my spare time in singing and angling.

Scientists foresee that bird flu and other epidemics will be w________ out with the development of science and technology.

Most disaster experts believe that there is _____________ (潜在的可能性 ) that things could get a lot worse.

 Yesterday I rented a f_____________ apartment, so I didn’t have to buy any desks or chairs.

Because the natural disasters occur at random times, it is difficult to warn people in a___________.

However, learning English as a foreign language is very difficult in the a_________ of a native language environment.

85. More and more people think that nature __________ ( 值得 ) our protection because we ourselves depend on it to live our lives.

单词填空，每空填一词（满分5分）。
76.  Keep indoors and don’t  ____________（暴露）your skin to the sun.
77.  They have put f_____________ a plan for reducing the level of traffic.
78.  Considering that he was always a careful person, we decided to __________(采纳) his idea at last.
79.  _______ （除了） from school work, I spend my spare time in singing and angling.
80.  Scientists foresee that bird flu and other epidemics will be w________ out with the development of science and technology.
81.  Most disaster experts believe that there is _____________ (潜在的可能性) that things could get a lot worse.
82.   Yesterday I rented a f_____________ apartment, so I didn’t have to buy any desks or chairs.
83.  Because the natural disasters occur at random times, it is difficult to warn people in a___________.
84.  However, learning English as a foreign language is very difficult in the a_________ of a native language environment.
85. More and more people think that nature __________ ( 值得 ) our protection because we ourselves depend on it to live our lives.

单词填空，每空填一词（满分5分）。

76.   Keep indoors and don’t  ____________（暴露）your skin to the sun.

77.   They have put f_____________ a plan for reducing the level of traffic.

78.   Considering that he was always a careful person, we decided to __________(采纳) his idea at last.

79.   _______ （除了） from school work, I spend my spare time in singing and angling.

80.   Scientists foresee that bird flu and other epidemics will be w________ out with the development of science and technology.

81.   Most disaster experts believe that there is _____________ (潜在的可能性 ) that things could get a lot worse.

82.    Yesterday I rented a f_____________ apartment, so I didn’t have to buy any desks or chairs.

83.   Because the natural disasters occur at random times, it is difficult to warn people in a___________.

84.   However, learning English as a foreign language is very difficult in the a_________ of a native language environment.

85. More and more people think that nature __________ ( 值得 ) our protection because we ourselves depend on it to live our lives.

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1.Quality input              quality output.

2.If you saw a father     his son on the back while smiling happily, what would you think was going on?

3.We will be able to               any files or update our computers.

4.Medical advances ranged from discovering the causes of diseases under microscopes to surgical procedures replacing diseased organs with               ones.

5.However, learning English as a foreign language is very difficult in the       of a native language.

6.         these differences, experts agree that across the globe there is one form of body language that receives universal approval—the smile.

7.The insects like robots may be sent around the cells of our body to        our health.

8.The pioneers of the 20th century were all        to improving all the quality of human life on earth.

9.During the Second World War, when Fleming’s discovery was first helping to     people, the US Navy was looking for ways of improving the accuracy of their missiles.

10.There will therefore no longer be any               and people will be able to live together in peace and equality.