A rabbit is running into its hole. You may ask, “What happened?”
Well, when a rabbit sees something dangerous, it runs away. Its tail moves up and down as it runs. When other rabbits see this tail moving up and down, they run too. They know that there is danger. The rabbit has told them something without making a sound. It has given them a signal.
Many other animals use this kind of language. When a bee found some food, it goes back to his home. It cannot tell the other bees where the food is by speaking to them, but it does a little dance in the air. This tells the bees where the food is.
Some animals say things by making sounds. A dog barks, for example, when a stranger
comes near. A cat purrs (发出呼噜呼噜的声音)when pleased. Some birds make several different sounds, each with its own meaning.
But human beings have something that no animals have –-- a large number of words about things, actions, feelings or ideas. We are able to give each other information, to tell or inform other people what is in our mind or how we feel. By writing words down we can remind ourselves of the things what have happened, or send messages to people far away. No animals can do this. No animals has the wonderful power of language.
No one knows how man learned to make words. Somehow he learned to make them. As centuries went by, he made more and more new words. This is what we mean by language.  People living in different countries made different kinds of words. Today there are about fifteen hundred different languages in the world. A very large English dictionary, for example,  contains four or five hundred thousand words. But we do not know all these. The words we know are called vocabulary. We should try to make our vocabulary larger. Read as many books as possible. When we meet a new word, look it up in the dictionary. A dictionary is the Most useful book.
【小题1】 When a rabbit gives the other rabbits a signal of danger, it _______.

A rabbit is running into his hole. You may ask, “What happened?”
Well, when a rabbit sees something dangerous, it runs away. Its tail moves up and down as it runs. When other rabbits see this tail moving up and down, they ran, too. They know there is danger. The rabbit has told them something without making a sound. It has given them a signal.
Many other animals use this kind of language. When a bee finds some food, it goes back to his home. It can’t tell the other bees where the food is by speaking to them, but it does dance in the air. This tells the bees where the food is.
But animals say things by making sounds. A dog barks, for examples, when a stranger comes near. A cat purrs(发出呼噜呼噜的声音) when pleased. Some birds make several different sounds, each with its own meaning.
But human beings have something that no animals have---- a large number of words about things, actions, feelings or ideas. We are able to give each other information to tell or inform other people what is in our mind or how we feel. By writing words down we can remind ourselves of the things that have happened, or send messages to people far away. No animals can do this. No animals has the wonderful power of language.
No one knows how man learned to make words. Somehow he learned to make them. As centuries went by, he made more and more new words. This is what we mean by language.
People in different countries made different kinds of words. Today there are about fifteen hundred different languages in the world. A very large English dictionary, for examples, contains four or five hundred thousand words. But we don’t know all these. The words we know are called vocabulary. We should try to make our vocabulary larger. Read as many books as possible. When we met a new word, look it up in the dictionary. A dictionary is the most useful book.

1. 1.

   What’s the meaning of the underlined word?

   1. A.
      标语
   2. B.
      信号
   3. C.
      唱片
   4. D.
      图像
2. 2.

   A dog can tell something__________.

   1. A.
      by giving signals
   2. B.
      by making different sounds
   3. C.
      by purring
   4. D.
      by barking
3. 3.

   It has been proved that no animals are able to_________.

   1. A.
      give the others information
   2. B.
      express their actions and feelings with words
   3. C.
      tell others how they feel
   4. D.
      make different sounds, each with its own meaning.
4. 4.

   Generally speaking, what we mean by “vocabulary” is_______.

   1. A.
      all the words that we know
   2. B.
      more and more words we use
   3. C.
      all the words we need
   4. D.
      the dictionary which contains thousands of words
5. 5.

   What must we do in order to make our vocabulary larger?

   1. A.
      Make more and more new words
   2. B.
      look up some new words in a dictionary
   3. C.
      learn more language
   4. D.
      Try to read as many books as possible

    Do you like English? How many English words have you learned so far? It seems that many students find it difficult to remember new words when they begin to study English．Let me give you some advice：

    1．Do not waste time in learning a list of English words．It is the hardest way to remember them．How did you learn to speak English? You did it by listening carefully to people talking around you．Find some radio programs，TV programs and records，and listen to them carefully．The best way to learn all new words is by ears．As you listen to more and more dialogues，you will learn how English is pronounced in phrases and sentences．Of course．it is not enough to learn new words；you must learn how words are put together, and why some words in English are emphasized(重读)．

    2．Some people have found that they can learn tile names of everyday objects such as a box，a bottle，a cup，a desk，in the following way．They write the words as they say them．Try this and see if this way works for you．If it does not，then practice dialogues．

1．Who gave the advice? Perhaps it was given by        ．

    A．a doctor                      B．a teacher from England

    C．American parents                D．a teacher of English

2．The advice the writer gave as is mainly about        ．

    A．how to learn English             B．how to put word together

    C．how to learn new words      D．how to memorize dialogues

3．The writer gives us two pieces of advice on learning new words．He seems to prefer     ．

A．the first one     B．the second one    C．both of them    D．neither of them

4．The writer thinks that the best way to learn new words is          ．

    A．to do more reading                     B．to do more writing

    C．to do more listening               D．to learn which word is emphasized

5．Writing the names of objects on paper and saying them out aloud            

    A．works for everyone                   B．does not work for everyone

    C．works only for some people          D．works only for the Chinese students