There are about fifteen hundred languages in the world. But
21 a few of them are very
22 . English is one of these. Many, many people use it, not only in England and the U.S.A., but in other parts of the world. About 200,000,000 speak it as their own language. It is difficult to say how many people are learning it as a
23 language. Many millions are
24 to do so.
Is it easy or difficult to learn English? Different people may have different
25 . Have you ever
26 ads of this kind in the newspapers or magazines? “Learn English in six weeks, or your
27 back.”.“Easy and funny! Our records and tapes
28 you master(掌握) your English in a month.
29 the first day your
30 will be excellent. Just send us ... ” Of course, it never
31 quite like this.
The only language that seems easy to learn is the mother tongue. We should
32 that we all learned our own language well when we were
33 . If we could learn English in the same way, it would not seem so difficult.
34 what a small child does. He listens to what people say. He tries what he hears. When he is using the language, talking in it,
35 in it all the time. Just imagine how much
36 that gets!
So it is
37 to say that learning English is easy, because a good command of English
38 upon a lot of practice. And practice needs great effort and
39 much time. Good teachers, records, tapes, books, and dictionaries will
40 . But they cannot do the student's work for him.
| 小题2: | | A．difficult | B．important | C．necessary | D．easy |
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| 小题3: | | A．native | B．foreign | C．useful | D．mother |
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| 小题4: | | A．learning | B．enjoying | C．trying | D．liking |
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| 小题5: | | A．questions | B．problems | C．ideas | D．answers |
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| 小题6: | | A．found | B．watched | C．noticed | D．known |
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| 小题7: | | A．knowledge | B．time | C．money | D．English |
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| 小题10: | | A．spelling | B．grammar | C．English | D．pronunciation |
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| 小题11: | | A．happened | B．looked | C．seemed | D．felt |
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| 小题12: | | A．know | B．remember | C．understand | D．think |
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| 小题13: | | A．students | B．children | C．babies | D．grown-ups |
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| 小题14: | | A．Imagine | B．Mind | C．Do | D．Think of |
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| 小题15: | | A．using | B．thinking | C．trying | D．practicing |
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| 小题16: | | A．time | B．money | C．language | D．practice |
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| 小题17: | | A．hard | B．easy | C．funny | D．silly |
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| 小题18: | | A．depends | B．tries | C．has | D．takes |
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| 小题19: | | A．uses | B．takes | C．gets | D．costs |
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