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仔细阅读下列短文, 根据题目, 选出最佳选项. Have you ever noticed an advertisement which says "Learn a foreign language in six weeks, or your money back! From the first day your pronunciation will be excellent. Just send ... " and so on Of course, it never happens quite like that. Anyone who learns a foreign language would think that it is not true. The only language that is easy to learn is the mother tongue. What is the mother tongue It is the first and main language that you learnt when you were a child. And think how much practice that a child gets! Before the Second World War, people usually learned a foreign language in order to read the literary(文学的) works of the country. Nowadays, speaking the foreign language is what most people want. Every year many millions of people start learning one. How do they do it Some people try at home, with books and tapes; some use radio or television programs; others go to evening classes. If they use the language only two or three times a week, learning it will take a long time, like language learning at school. A few people try to learn a language fast by studying for six or more hours a day. It is clearly easier to learn the language in the country where it is spoken. However, most people cannot afford this, and many language learners need the language in order to do their work better. For example, scientists and doctors mainly need to be able to read books and reports in the foreign language. Machines and good books will help, but they cannot do the student's work for him. Whether the language is learned quickly or slowly, it is hard work with a lot of training in reading, listening, speaking, and writing. |