A. Speak, speak, speak
Practise speaking as often as you can---even speaking to yourself is good practice. Try recording yourself whenever you can. Compare your pronunciation with the master version(版本), see how you can do better and have another go. If you do this several times, you will find that each version is better than the last.
B. Why not learn with someone else?
It helps if you can learn with someone else. If you can persuade a friend or family member to study with you, it will make you keep working. Agree times to meet and set goals for the week. And test each other regularly.
Don’t get a shock by a word you don’t
know
Practise improvising（即兴的） ways of getting your meaning across when speaking spontaneously（本能地）, even if you don’t know the exact words or phrases. Think of things you might want to say whenever you have spare time. A basic example is the use of tenses. If you don’t know the past tense but want to talk about yesterday, use the verb in the present tense and use the word “yesterday”.
Use facial expressions, hand movements, anything to get your meaning across.
D. Language learning is also about intuition（直觉）.
Guesswork is an important strategy in learning a new language. When listening to recorded material, you aren’t expected to understand everything first time round. If you play the same piece several times, you will most probably understand something new each time. Learn to make maximum use of all the clues you can pick up. For example, what do the speakers sound like? happy, angry, calm etc.
E. Build up your vocabulary.
A wide vocabulary is the key to successful language learning but don’t try to learn too much at once. It’s best to study frequently, for short periods of time. Take a maximum of six or seven items of vocabulary and learn them. Put them into sentences to fix them in your mind, then come back to them later. Much of the vocabulary in the course is presented by topic. And above all, have fun!
请阅读以下英语学习者在学习中碰到的困难，然后匹配该学习者应该采取上述五种做法（A、B、C、D、E）中的某一种。
1.Jack Anderson. Jack’s vocabulary is very small. He is anxious to improve his English. Therefore, he wants to enlarge his vocabulary in a short time and tries his best to memorize new words as many as possible at a time.
2.Margret Lillian. Margret Lillian’s pronunciation is poor. And she doesn’t know how to improve her pronunciation. She is very worried and doesn’t know what to do.
3.Alice Fingerhut. Alice has difficulty in understanding the meaning of the English text. So she looks up the new words in the dictionary in order to understand everything.
4.Lynne Nagata. Lynne can’t express herself clearly in English because she sometimes forgets some key words and doesn’t know the tenses exactly. What can she do?
The Life Lab Garden Classroom is a two-acre, interactive （互动的）and educational garden located at the Center for Agro-ecology（农业生态） and Sustainable Food Systems Farm on the university of California, Santa Cruz campus. People of all ages can discover ecological concepts in this hands-on, living laboratory. Learn about plants, nature, weather, organic（绿色的） gardening, life cycles.
The Garden Classroom is open to the public every day from 8 am to 6 pm. Free Admission!
The Garden Classroom offers:
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Field Trips |
The Garden Classroom offers guided garden-based field trips for elementary school classes in the spring and fall. Themes include food systems, soil, recycling and so on. |
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Summer Camp |
Each summer students explore the garden and surrounding natural areas to learn science concepts, gardening basics, crafts and cooking skills . |
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Workshops |
A variety of garden-based workshops are offered for teachers and the public in the Garden Classroom and at school sites and conferences. |
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Special Events |
Life Lab offers classes for students, after-school and home school programs, teacher conferences, and private events in the Garden Classroom. |
The Garden Classroom was made possible through generous contributions from The David and Lucile Packard Foundation and many other organizations and individuals.
1.The text is probably taken from .
A. a history book B. a hotel instruction
an English dictionary D.
a tourist guidebook
2.The Life Garden Classroom is a place where people .
A. grow plants and flowers B. see different kinds of rare plants
learn about plants and living
creatures D. know about the University of California
3.Tony is in Senior 1. He is quite interested in exploring the science concepts and making crafts. Which program will he choose?
A. Field Trips B.
Summer Camp Workshops D.
Special Events.
4.We can know all the following from the text except .
A. where the Life Lab Garden Classroom lies and its exact size
B. when people can come to the Life Lab Garden Classroom
that people are free to visit the
Life Lab Garden Classroom every year
D. that the Life Lab Garden Classroom is supported by the government.
A man living absolutely alone in a desert or forest is free from other people; but he is not absolutely free. His freedom is limited in several ways. Firstly, by the things around him, such as wild animals or cliffs. Secondly, by his own needs: he must have sleep, water, food and shelter from extreme heat or cold. Lastly, by his own nature as a man: disease may attack him, and death will certainly come to him sooner or later.
On the other hand, when men become organized into very large groups and civilization develops, it is possible to get freedom from hunger, thirst, cold, heat, and many diseases, so that each person can live a happier life than he could if he were living alone; but such a society can not work successfully unless the freedom of each human being is to some extent limited so that he is kept from hurting others. I am not free to kill others, nor to steal someone else’s property , nor to act in a way that does wrong against the moral sense of the society in which we live. I have to limit my own freedom myself so that others will not limit it too much: I agree to respect the rights of others, and in return they agree to respect mine.
The advantages of such an agreement are great: one can become a doctor knowing that others will grow food, make clothes and build a house for him, in return for the work he does to keep them healthy. If each man had to grow his own food, make his own clothes, build his own house and learn to be his own doctor, he would find it impossible to do any one of these jobs really well. By working together, we make it possible for society to provide us all with food , clothes, shelter and medical care, while leaving each of us with as much freedom as it can.
1.A man living alone in a desert or forest .
A. is absolutely free B. feels happy
has limited freedom D.
enjoys no freedom
2.According to the writer, he limits his freedom because .
A. hunger, thirst and disease limit him B. others won’t limit theirs
the moral sense of the society limits
him D. others will respect his
3.The author suggests that when men live together .
A. they have a safer and easier life B. they are not free at all
they must build shelters for others D.
they can get more protection
4.This text is written mainly to show that .
A. one can have all his freedom by living on his own
B. one has limited freedom just because of his own nature
one must fight for his freedom if
he’s free from other people
D. one will have much freedom by working together with others
Expressions about water are mostly as common as water itself.
The expression “to be in hot water” is one of them. It is a very old expression. Hot water was used five hundred years ago to mean being in trouble. One story says it got that meaning from the custom of throwing extremely hot water down on enemies attacking a castle. That no longer happens. But we still get “in hot water”. When we are in hot water, we are in trouble. It can be any kind of trouble, serious or not so serious. A person who breaks a law can be in hot water with the police. A young boy can be in hot water with his mother if he walks in the house with dirty shoes.
“Being in deep water” is somewhat like being in hot water. When you are in deep water, you are in a difficult position. Imagine a person who can not swim being thrown in water over his head. You are in deep water when you are facing a problem that you don’t have the ability to solve. You can be in deep water, for example, if you invest in stocks without knowing anything about the stock market.
“To keep your head above water” is a colorful expression that means staying out of debt. A company seeks to keep its head above water during economic hard times. A man who loses his job tries to keep his head above water until he finds a new job.
“Water over the dam” is another expression about past events. It is something that is finished, and cannot be changed. The expression comes from the idea that water has floated over a dam and cannot be brought back again. When a friend is troubled by a mistake he or she has made, you might tell him or her to forget about it. You say it is water over the dam.
Another common expression “to hold water” is about the strength or weakness of an idea or opinion that you may be arguing about . It probably comes from a way of testing the condition of a container. If it can hold water, it is strong and does not have any holes; if it does not hold water, then, it is weak and not worth debating.
“Throwing cold water” also is an expression that deals with ideas or proposals. For example, you want to buy a new car because the old one has some problems, but your wife throws cold water on the idea because she says a new car costs too much.
1.Don’t cheat in this exam! Or you’ll if you are caught cheating by the teacher.
A. be in hot wate B. have to hold water
be in deep water D.
keep your head above water
2.The expression using water in Paragraph has almost the same meaning as “Things done cannot be undone.”
A. 3 B. 4 5 D. 6
3.We can see from this passage that many of the expressions using water have meanings.
A. double B.
unpleasant close
D. moral
4.The best title for this passage should be .
A. The history of water B. Cold water or hot water
Water and it culture D.
Expressions concerning water
A businessman walks into a bank in San Francisco and asks for the loan officer. He says he is going to Europe on business for two weeks and needs to borrow ＄5000 . The bank officer says the bank will need some kind of security for such a loan. So the businessman hands over the keys to a Rolls Royce parked on the street in front of the bank. Everything checks out, and the bank agrees to accept the car as collateral for the loan. An employee drives the Rolls Royce into the bank’s underground garage and parks it there.
Two weeks later, the businessman returns, and repays the ＄5000 and the interest, which comes to ＄15.41.
The loan officer says, “ We are very happy to have had your business, and this transaction has worked out very nicely, but we are a little puzzled. While you were away, we checked you out and found that you are a multimillionaire. What puzzles us is that why would you bother to borrow＄5000?”
Laughing, the businessman replies, “ Where else in San Francisco can I park my car for two weeks for ＄15?”
1.The businessman walks into the bank with the true purpose of .
A. borrowing＄5000 B. meeting the loan officer
finding a place to park his car
D. showing how
rich he is
2.The loan officer is puzzled because .
A. he never thought he could meet a multimillionaire in his bank
B. he thinks the businessman is crazy to leave his car in the bank
he never thought the businessman
could drive a Rolls Royce
D. he thinks＄5000 is so small a sum of money to the businessman
3.The underlined word “collateral” in Paragraph 1 most probably means“ ”.
A. security B.
payment reward
D. deal
4.Which of the following words can best describe the businessman according to the story?
A. Honest B. Clever
Rich D. Kind
阅读下面短文，从短文后所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
One day , a poor boy who was trying to pay his way through school by selling goods from door to door found that he only had ten cents left. He was hungry so he decided to 1for a meal at the next house.
However, he lost his courage 2a lovely young woman opened the door. Instead of a meal he asked for a drink of water. She thought he looked 3so she brought him a large glass of milk. He drank it 4, and then asked, “ How much do I owe you?” “You don’t owe me anything,” she 5. “Mother has taught me never to accept pay for a 6.” He said, “Then I thank you from the bottom of my heart.” As Howard Kelly left that house, he not only felt stronger 7, but it also increased his faith in God and human race. He was about to give up before that point.
Years later the young woman became seriously ill. The local doctors were completely confused. They finally sent her to the big city, where specialists can be called 8to study her rare disease. Dr. Howard Kelly, now 9, was called in for the consultation. When he heard the name of the town she came from, a strange light 10his eyes. Immediately, he 11and went down through the hospital hall into her room.
12in his doctor’s gown he went in to see her. He 13her at once. He went back to the consultation room and 14to do his best to save her life. From that day on, he gave 15attention to her case.
After a long 16the battle was won. Dr. Kelly 17the business office to pass the final bill to him for approval . He looked at it and then wrote something on the side. The bill was sent to her room. She was afraid to open it because she was 18that it would take the rest of her life to pay it off. Finally she looked , and the note on the side of the bill caught her 19. She read these words: “ Paid in full with a glass of milk.”
Tears of joy flooded her eyes as she 20silently. “ Thank you , God. Your love has spread through human hearts and hands.”
1.A . call B.
make 
beg D.
prepare
2.A. while B.
when though D.
unless
3.A. thirsty B.
lazy tired D.
hungry
4.A. slowly B.
unexpectedly steadily
D. hurriedly
5.A. announced B.
shook replied D.
doubted
6.A. reward B.
kindness hand D.
value
7.A. physically B.
mentally normally D.
properly
8.A. up B.
for on D.
in
9.A. rich B.
famous unknown D.
poor
10.A. fixed B.
consulted filled D.
concentrated
11.A. rose B.
raised got D.
left
12.A. Worn B.
Having Putting D.
Dressed
13.A. recognized B.
knew spared D.
regained
14.A. desired B.
declared determined D.
declined
15.A. special B.
ordinary 
normal D.
no
16.A. decision B.
preparation struggle D.
debate
17.A. ordered B.
requested confused D.
compromised
18.A. negative B.
uncertain positive D.
obvious
19.A. presentation B.
preference attention
D. arrangement
20.A. praised B.
pretended pressed D.
prayed
