阅读理解。
One is not born able to speak a language. One is born able to make a noise. I have heard babies cry in
America and in China. I can't tell any difference. But when I hear someone from America speak English
and hear someone speak Chinese, I can tell you there are a lot of differences.
I believe a common problem with Chinese students' learning English is that they were not taught to think
in English. They have an idea spoken in English and want to translate the idea into Chinese, Then they think
in Chinese of the proper reply and translate it into English. After a long period of speaking the language, one
begins to think in the foreign language naturally. You will learn faster if you begin to think in English at the
very beginning of your study. Many students ask me: What can I do to improve my spoken English?
My reply is: The more English you speak, the better English you will speak. There are many things you
can do to improve your spoken English. Of course, the best way is to live where English is spoken as a
language of the country.
1. The cries of American and Chinese babies are ______.
A. different
B. the same
C. not like each other
D. like each other
2. The underlined sentence ( in Paragraph 2 ) means that _______.
A. some teachers didn't teach students to think in English
B. teachers never gave the students the way of learning English
C. students didn't remember the way teachers taught them
D. teachers didn't want their students to think in English
3. The underlined word "they" ( in Paragraph 2 ) refers to "______".
A. Chinese students
B. English students
C. Chinese teachers
D. English teachers
4. According to the article, which of the following is TRUE?
A. You must think in English all the time.
B. If you translate a sentence into Chinese, you should think about the meaning of the sentence
in Chinese carefully first.
C. After speaking English for a long time, you may probably think in English naturally.
D. The best way of learning English is to live in America.
