Texts are usually used in English classes for two main purposes: as a way of developing reading comprehension and as a way of learning new language.（）

In English teaching, teachers should NOT pay attention to__________.

A．providing independent learning and communicating opportunities for students
B．correcting students' mistakes and errors in the process of learning immediately
C．encouraging students to discuss, cooperate, experience, practice, and explore the way to master English
D．cultivating students' interest

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第一篇

Why Don ' t Babies Talk Like Adults?

Over the past half-century,scientists have settled on two reasonable theories related to babytalk.One
states that a young child's brain needs time to master language,in the same way that it does to master other
abilities such as physical movement. The second theory states that a child's vocabulary level is the key fac-
tor. According to this theory,some key steps have to occur in a logical sequence before sentence formation
occurs.Children's mathematical knowledge develops in the same way.
In 2007,researchers at Harvard University,who were studying the two theories,found a clever way to
test them.More than 20,000 internationally adopted children enter the U.S.each year. Many of them no lon-
ger hear their birth language after they arrive,and they must learn English more or less the same way infants
do一that is,by listening and by trial and error. International adoptees don't take classes or use a dictionary
when they are learning their new tongue and most of them don't have a well-developed first language.All of
these factors make them an ideal population in which to test these competing hypotheses about how language
is learned.
Neuroscientists Jesse Snedeker,Joy Geren and Carissa Shafto studied the language development of 27
children adopted from China between the ages of two and five years.These children began learning English
at an older age than US natives and had more mature brains with which to tackle the task.Even so,just as
with American-born infants,their first English sentences consisted of single words and were largely bereft（缺
乏的）of function words , word endings and verbs. The adoptees then went through the same stages as typical
American-born children,though at a faster clip.The adoptees and native children started combining words in
sentences when their vocabulary reached the same sizes,further suggesting that what matters is not how old
you are or how mature your brain is,but the number of words you know.
This finding一that having more mature brains did not help the adoptees avoid the toddler-talk stage一
suggests that babies speak in babytalk not because they have baby brains,but because they have only just
started learning and need time to gain enough vocabulary to be able to expand their conversations.Before
long,the one-word stage will give way to the two-word stage and so on. Learning how to chat like an adult is
a gradual process.
But this potential answer also raises an even older and more difficult question.Adult immigrants who
learn a second language rarely achieve the same proficiency in a foreign language as the average child raised
as a native speaker. Researchers have long suspected there is a"critical period"for language development,
after which it cannot proceed with full success to fluency.Yet we still do not understand this critical period or
know why it ends.

What is the writer's main purpose in Paragraph 2?
A:To reject the view that adopted children need two languages.
B:To argue that culture affects the way children learn a language.
C:To give reasons why adopted children were used in the study.
D:To justify a particular approach to language learning.

根据下面资料，回答
Reading aloud and silent reading are two different types of reading practice. Each has a function in the teaching of reading and should not be 16 by the other. However, we need to be aware when we should use them. When we 17 teaching reading or developing reading skills, we are mostly referring to silent reading. To develop 18 readers in a foreign language, silent reading activities must be given enough 19 and time in class with the proper guidance from the 20 . Reading aloud also has its particular 21 for our students who are learning English as a foreign language. 22 can help them acquire good pronunciation and intonation, 23 them with new words and the stress patterns of English, help 24 their eontidenee in speaking the language. Therefore, opportunities should be 25 for students to read aloud only after they have comprehended the text 26 before comprehension can be very 27 and it can easily destroy their self-confidence. With 28 reading, it sets up a poor reading model for other students as well. It is 29 that we first help students learn the text through 30 reading activities and then with comprehension we give our students practice by using an audio tape to 31 a good model for practicing reading aloud. With adequate 32 , we may ask the students to read aloud to the whole class to 33 their motivation and confidence. By asking the students to read aloud, it is also a good chance for the teacher to get 34 on the students′ comprehension as we can notice 35 there are wrong pauses or mispronounced words which indicate possible difficulties or misunderstanding of the text.
第（17）题选

A.work out
B.run into
C.talk about
D.take on

Which of the following assumptions about vocabulary learning contradicts the modern language teaching theories?

A．The best way to learn words is to use them.
B．The best way to learn vocabulary, is via rote-learning.
C．An English dictionary is an important aid to students.
D．Learning a word involves learning more than just the word itself.

根据下面资料，回答
Reading aloud and silent reading are two different types of reading practice. Each has a function in the teaching of reading and should not be 16 by the other. However, we need to be aware when we should use them. When we 17 teaching reading or developing reading skills, we are mostly referring to silent reading. To develop 18 readers in a foreign language, silent reading activities must be given enough 19 and time in class with the proper guidance from the 20 . Reading aloud also has its particular 21 for our students who are learning English as a foreign language. 22 can help them acquire good pronunciation and intonation, 23 them with new words and the stress patterns of English, help 24 their eontidenee in speaking the language. Therefore, opportunities should be 25 for students to read aloud only after they have comprehended the text 26 before comprehension can be very 27 and it can easily destroy their self-confidence. With 28 reading, it sets up a poor reading model for other students as well. It is 29 that we first help students learn the text through 30 reading activities and then with comprehension we give our students practice by using an audio tape to 31 a good model for practicing reading aloud. With adequate 32 , we may ask the students to read aloud to the whole class to 33 their motivation and confidence. By asking the students to read aloud, it is also a good chance for the teacher to get 34 on the students′ comprehension as we can notice 35 there are wrong pauses or mispronounced words which indicate possible difficulties or misunderstanding of the text.
第（34）题选

A.suggestion
B.feedback
C.promotion
D.inspiration