We each have a memory（记忆）. That's why we can remember things after a long time. Some people have a very good memory and they can easily learn many things by heart, but some people can only remember things when they say or do them again and again.
A good memory helps one learn a language well. Everybody learns his own language when he is a small child. He hears the sounds, remembers them and then he learns to speak. Some children are living with their parents in foreign countries. They can learn two languages easily because they hear, remember and speak the two languages every day. In school it is not easy to learn a foreign language because the students have little time for it and they have to learn other subjects, too.
Our memory can get better and better if we do more and more exercises. Do you want to learn a foreign language well? If so, you must do a lot of listening and speaking.
1.Why can we remember things after a long time?
2.Why can some people easily learn many things by heart?
3.Which conditions（条件） can make a child learn two languages easily?
4.Is it easy for the students to learn a foreign language well? Why?
5.What must you do if you want to learn a foreign language well?
Every year thousands of young people in England finish school and then take a year off before they start work or go to university. Some young people go to other countries and work as volunteers .Volunteers give their time to help people. For example, they work in schools or hospitals, or they do something helpful for the environment.
Pauline Jones, 18, lives in Cardiff, Wales. Next year she wants to go to university to study Chinese, but now she’s living in Belize. Pauline says, “I’ m working with other people here to save the coral reefs (珊瑚礁) in the sea near Belize. The reefs here are beautiful, but if the sea water is very polluted (污染), the coral dies. I’m helping to do research on the coral and the fish that live around the reefs. All over the world, coral reefs are dying. We need to do something about the problem before it’s too late.”
“I’m staying with a family here and I help do some housework. I don’t get any money, but that’s OK. I love my work here, and I’m learning a lot about the people of Belize—and myself!
When I finish my work, I want to stay here for another three months. I want to travel around Belize and Central America.”
1.Some young people from England _______ after they finish school.
A. go to university abroad
B. spend one year abroad as volunteers
C. go to work for money
D. start work in schools or hospitals
2.Pauline Jones, an eighteen-year-old girl, is living in _______ now.
A. England B. China
C. Belize D. Cardiff
3.Pauline Jones is _______ with other people.
A. studying Chinese in a university
B. working to save the coral reefs
C. helping do some housework
D. doing some research in Wales
4.From the passage, we know that the coral reefs ______.
A. will die because of the pollution
B. are not as beautiful as before
C. cannot live without fish in the sea
D. will probably be sold for money
5.Pauline Jones wants to after she finishes her work as a volunteer.
A. stay there for another year
B. go back home to start work
C. learn about the people home
D. travel around Central America
The farmer and his cow
A farmer had a cow. He took very good care of his cow. One day it was ill, the farmer was very worried. He telephoned the vet.
“What’s the problem?” the vet asked the farmer when he arrived. “My cow is ill,” said the farmer.” I don’t know what’s the matter with her. She’s lying down and doesn’t eat. She’s making a strange noise.”
The vet looked at the cow. “She’s certainly ill,” he said, “ and she needs to take some strong medicine.”
He took a bottle out of his box, put two pills into his hand and said, “ Give her these. The pills should make her better.”
“How should I give them to her? The farmer asked.
The vet gave him a tube(管子) and said, “Put this tube in her mouth, then put the pills in the tube and blow. That’ll make it.”
The next day the vet came to the farm again. The farmer was sitting outside his house and looked worried.
“How’s your cow?” asked the vet.
“No change,” the farmer said, “ and I’m feeling very strange myself.”
“Oh?” the vet said, “Why?”
“I did what you said,” the farmer answered. “I put the tube in the cow’s mouth and then put the two pills down it.”
“And?” the vet asked.
“The cow blew first,” the farmer said.
1. From the story, we know that a vet is ________.
A. the farmer’s friend
B. a milk factory
C. a hospital for cows
D. a doctor for animals
2.The farmer asked the vet for help when his cow _______.
A. couldn’t lie down
B. didn’t eat pills
C. couldn’t make any noise
D. was not well.
3.What medicine did the vet give the farmer?
A. A bottle of pills. B. A long tube.
C. Two pills. D. A small box.
4.The vet taught the farmer how to _______.
A. blow the tube
B. make the cow take the pills
C. take the medicine
D. put the tube in his mouth
5.Which of the following is true?
A. The farmer ate the pills.
B. The cow got better after taking the medicine.
C. The vet came and gave the farmer another cow the next day.
D. The farmer waited outside the vet’s house the next day.
-----Ann, would you like to drink tea or coffee?
----_________, I’m not thirsty at all.
A. Either B. Any
C. Neither D. Both.
The policemen_____ the thief when the accident happened.
A.was looking for B.were looking
C.was finding D.were finding
The wind was blowing（刮）____ and there was no____ in the sky.
A. heavy；cloud B. heavy; cloudy
C. heavy; cloudy D. heavily; cloud
