Next month, I’m traveling to a remote area of Central Africa and my aim is to know enough Lingala — one of the local languages — to have a conversation. I wasn’t sure how I was going to manage this — until I discovered a way to learn all the vocabulary I’m going to need. Thanks to Memrise, the application I’m using. It feels just like a game.
“People often stop learning things because they feel they’re not making progress or because it all feels like too much hard work,” says Ed Cooke, one of the people who created Memrise. “We’re trying to create a form of learning experience that is fun and is something you’d want to do instead of watching TV.”
Memrise gives you a few new words to learn and these are “seeds” which you plant in your “greenhouse”. When you learn the words, you “water your plants”. When the application believes that you’ve really memorized a word, it moves the word to your “garden”. And if you forget to log on, the application sends you emails, reminding you to “water your plants”.
The application uses two principles about learning. The first is that people memorize things better when they link them to a picture in their mind. Memrise translates words into your own language, but it also encourages you to use “mems”. For example, I memorized motele, the Lingala word for “engine”, using a mem I created — I imagined an old engine in a motel (汽车旅馆) room.
The second principle is that we need to stop after studying words and then repeat them again later, leaving time between study sessions. Memrise helps you with this, because it’s the kind of application you only use for five or ten minutes a day.
I’ve learnt hundreds of Lingala words with Memrise. I know this won’t make me a fluent speaker, but I hope I’ll be able to do more than just smile when I meet people in Congo. Now, I need to go and water my Vocabulary!
1.What does Ed Cooke make an effort to do with Memrise?
A. Create memorable experiences. B. Make progress with hard work.
C. Learning words instead of watching TV. D. Combine study with entertainment.
2.What are you doing when you “water your plants”?
A. Logging on to the application. B. Being a Memrise user.
C. Practising the vocabulary. D. Moving words to your garden.
3.How does Memrise work?
A. By linking different mems together. B. By putting knowledge into practice.
C. By offering human translation services. D. By applying an associative memory approach.
4.What is the author’s attitude towards Memrise?
A. Doubtful. B. Positive.
C. Uninterested. D. Negative.
Guide to Stockholm University Library
Our library offers different types of studying places and provides a good studying environment.
Zones
The library is divided into different zones. The upper floor is a quiet zone with over a thousand places for silent reading, and places where you can sit and work with your own computer. The reading places consist mostly of tables and chairs. The ground floor is the zone where you can talk. Here you can find sofas and armchairs for group work.
Computers
You can use your own computer to connect to the wi-fi specially prepared for notebook computers; you can also use library computers, which contain the most commonly used applications, such as Microsoft Office. They are situated in the area known as the Experimental Field on the ground floor.
Group-study places
If you want to discuss freely without disturbing others, you can book a study room or sit at a table on the ground floor. Some study rooms are for 2～3 people and others can hold up to 6～8 people. All rooms are marked on the library maps.
There are 40 group-study rooms that must be booked via the website. To book, you need an active University account and a valid University card. You can use a room three hours per day, nine hours at most per week.
Storage of Study Material
The library has lockers for students to store course literature. When you have obtained at least 40 credits, you may rent a locker and pay 400 SEK for a year’s rental period.
Rules to be Followed
Mobile phone conversations are not permitted anywhere in the library. Keep your phone on silent as if you were in a lecture and exit the library if you need to receive calls.
Please note that food and fruit are forbidden in the library, but you are allowed to have drinks and sweets with you.
1.What is the library’s upper floor mainly for students to do?
A. Read in a quiet place. B. Have group discussions.
C. Take comfortable seats. D. Get their computers fixed.
2.What condition should be met to book a group-study room?
A. A group must consist of 8 people. B. Three-hour use per day is the minimum.
C. One should first register at the university. D. Applicants must mark the room on the map.
3.A student can rent a locker in the library if he ________.
A. can afford the rental fee B. attends certain courses
C. has nowhere to put his books D. has earned the required credits
假定你是李华，你的英国笔友Peter沉溺于网络游戏不能自拔，甚至不听父母劝阻想要离家出走。请根据以下要点提示，写信劝他放弃这个想法。
要点提示：1. 网瘾的危害 2. 要尊重父母并道歉 3. 建议他管理好自己的时间
注意：1.词数100左右；2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
Dear Peter,
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Yours,
Li Hua
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（
）,并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
My parents and I went to the park on last Sunday. There were lots of visitors standing in front of ticket window. We waited for a long time and buy three tickets. In the Tiger Mountain of the park, I was too eager to see the fierce frightened animals that I quickened my steps through the crowd. Unfortunate, I got separated from his parents. I had a hard time looking for them, and I had no luck. Wandering in the park, I felt alone without any companions. Worse still, I had no money, so I had to walk home, covering as far as 5 kilometer.
阅读下面材料， 在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
Making decisions can be very hard. It’s easy to get 1.(lose) in what should or should not be done rather than actually making the decision. When you have something important 2.(decide), try this.
Okay, you have a decision to make. Get out a piece of paper. On one side of the paper, write down the positive outcomes 3. will follow this decision. On 4. other side of the paper, write down the negative ones. Look at everything you have written down, weighing it, and give 5.(you) some time to make your choices. It’s a simple decision-making process, 6. that does not mean your choice is going to be easy.
To gain new ideas, ask other people you respect 7. their advice and opinions, after describing the decision you are facing. Speak openly with your family and trusted 8.(friend). This can be 9.(help) because another person can make the situation clear by 10.(offer) an unexpected opinion.
When I was five years old, I had a toy cat named Smokey. I took the brown _______ everywhere I went.
One day my parents and I went to the _______ with my toy cat. I remember I liked _______ with my parents. I always imagined that my _______ Smokey and I were going on a(n) _______together. When I walked into the store I went _______to the teddy bears. I made my toy cat Smokey play _______ his new friends Ted and Beary. By the time we got all the things we needed my parents told me it was time to _______. They were already by the checkout counter _______ I left immediately. In my hurry I ________the toy cat on the shelf.
We walked to the car and I started to help my parents put what we bought ________.
Then we all started to ________ home. But then I realized that I left my toy cat at the
store. So I started to ________, kicking my legs. But my parents didn’t want to go back. So I ________ them to go back to get my cat. I ran into the store as fast as I could. Smokey was just sitting there in the same place, ________ . I ran to my toy cat and________ it up.
I still have my toy cat sitting on my desk. I haven’t played with it since I was five or six. ________ when I look through my________and see it, the cat brings back many ________ memories. Even the ________ things in life, like a brown cat named Smokey, can influence you in a very personal way.
1.A. pig B. dog C. cat D. hen
2.A. store B. factory C. station D. school
3.A. traveling B. playing C. sailing D. shopping
4.A. mother B. friend C. brother D. sister
5.A. fight B. exercise C. pleasure D. trip
6.A. hardly B. together C. straight D. finally
7.A. of B. with C. in D. to
8.A. leave B. settle C. stop D. recover
9.A. for B. so C. or D. but
10.A. came B. went C. left D. returned
11.A. outside B. indoor C. outdoor D. inside
12.A. walk B. find C. Fly D. drive
13.A. smile B. attack C. cry D. amaze
14.A. ordered B. begged C. surprised D. noticed
15.A. untouched B. unlocked C. unaccepted D. unforgotten
16.A. picked B. saved C. interviewed D. connected
17.A. Sometimes B. Some times C. Sometime D. Some time
18.A. kitchen B. box C. desk D. shelf
19.A. bad B. good C. new D. sad
20.A. best B. biggest C. worst D. smallest
