“Learning a language is easy. Even a child can do it!”

       Most adults who are  36  a second language would not agree with this. For them, learning is a very difficult task. They need much time to study and practice, and even sometimes they don’t get good results. But learning a language is __37 _for children.

   Language teachers often offer __38__ to language learners:“ Read as __39 _as you can”“ Practice __40___the language every day”

       But what does a _41__language learner do? Language learning research shows that successful language learners are similar__42___ some ways.

       Successful language learners are learners with purpose. They will try any way to communicate. They are __43__in language learning because they know __44__why they learn a language . They try every chance __45__more, speak more, read more and write more.

       Are you successful in language learning? If it is less successful, you should do well to try the above ways.

1.A. learn       B. learned      C. learning         D. to learning

2.A. easily      B. easy         C. more easy       D. easilier

3.A. advices     B. advice       C. suggest         D. suggestion

4.A. many      B. much        C. more           D. most

5.A. saying     B. telling        C. speaking       D. speak

6.A. succeed    B. success       C. successfully     D. successful

7.A. on         B. to           C. in             D. by

8.A. energy     B. energetic      C. lazy           D. careful

9.A. clear       B. clearly        C. nothing        D. hard

10.A. listening   B. to listen        C. listen          D. listened

In the United States, when one becomes rich, he wants people to know it. And even if he does not become very rich, he wants people to think that he is. That is what “keeping up with the Joneses” is about. It is the story of someone who tried to look as rich as his neighbours.
The expression was first used in 1913 by a young American called Arthur Momand. He told this story about himself. He began earning $ 125 a week at the age of 23. That was a lot of money in those days. He got married and moved with his wife to a very wealthy neighbourhood outside New York City. When he saw that rich people rode horses, Momand went horseback riding every day. When he saw that rich people had servants, Momand and his wife also hired a servant and gave big parties for their new neighbours.
It was like a race, but one could never finish his race because one was always trying to keep up. The race ended for Momand and his wife when they could no longer pay for their new way of life. They moved back to an apartment in New York City.
Momand looked around him and noticed that many people do things just to keep up with rich lifestyle of their neighbours. He saw the funny side of it and started to write a series of short stories. He called it “Keeping up with the Joneses” because “Jones” is a very common name in the United States. “Keeping up with the Joneses” came to mean keeping up with rich lifestyle of the people around you. Momand’s series appeared in different newspapers across the country for over 28 years.
People never seem to get tired of keeping up with the Joneses. And there are “Joneses” in every city of the world. But one must get tired of trying to keep up with the Joneses because no matter what one does, Mr. Jones always seems to be ahead.
【小题1】Some people want to keep up with the Joneses because they ________.

The size and shape of your ears show your character more than any other part of the face. Other parts of the face change shapes as we get older, but ears do not change their shapes. They only change in size.

Reading people’s character from their ears is a very old science. In the past people thought that a person’s ears with color was dangerous. They also thought that the shape of the ears showed if a person was musical or not. Today，too many people believe that the size and shape of the ears help you know if a person is musical.

Ears are all different，and each different thing has a meaning. Next time you look at a person，see if his or her ears are large，medium-size，or small. Look at the lobes（耳垂）.Do they stick to the face? Ears that are always red mean that a person may get angry easily. Ears that are always cold and nearly white color mean that a person has a nervous character.

1.When a baby is born, ________.

2.Reading people’s character from their ears is ____________.

3.When one’s ears are red, it means________.

4.If you look at someone’s ears, the right way is________.

5.Which may be the best title of the article?

—John Adams didn’t play the lead role very well, right?
—Well, ________. I think he is a very good actor.