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“How can I learn English well?” This is a question many students ask. In my opinion, the most effective way is to learn lessons by heart. If you can recite the text and write it out, you’ve learned it fairly well. And if you can tell, in your own words, what the lesson says you’re a very successful learner indeed. Your English will be quite perfect.
This is a difficult task. However, if you try to learn by heart only part of each lesson, you’ll find it not half so hard as you might have thought.
Learning this way, you will make rapid progress. Of course, writing is also necessary. It helps you a lot on our way to success in English.
Equally important is to feel the language. You should be able to laugh at jokes and be shocked at bad news. When using English, try to forget your mother tongue. Instead of helping you, your own language gets in your way. So, never try to see English through translation.
In the writer’s opinion, the most effective way in learning English is ________.

A．to practise speaking, writing and feeling it

B．to forget your own native language

C．to translate everything into his own language

D．to memorize the English words and grammatical rules

“Instead of helping you, your own language gets in your way.”This sentence means that memorizing your own language can ________.

A．help you to study English well

B．stop you mastering English

C．make English easy to learn

D．help you notice mistakes

Equally important is to feel the language. “to feel the language” here means________.

A．to get a knowledge of English by touching

B．to be able to read and write English

C．to translate English into your own by imagining

D．to be able to experience the rich sensation of the language

Imagine the situation. You are driving along a desert or on a mountain. You have no idea where you are. You passed the last house two hours ago. Then your car breaks down. It is night and it is cold. You have no mobile phone. What do you do? Well, next time take a GPS with you. This invention may be able to help you. It is a device (装置) which uses satellites (卫星) to find the user’s position (位置). It can find your position to within 20 metres. A GPS cannot start your car, but at least you will know where you are.
GPS, which means Global Positioning System, is a small radio receiver. It looks like a mobile phone. It is sometimes put into a watch or a telephone. We also find GPS devices in cars, planes, or boats. Some of these devices have electronic maps, so you know where you are. For example, in a city they can tell you the name of the street.
There are three parts to the Global Positioning System. The first part is the receiver. You can hold it in your hand, or have it fixed into your car, plane, etc. The second part is a group of satellites orbiting(环绕…运行) the Earth. The receiver contacts at least four of the satellites and calculates its position. The third part of the system is a network of ground stations. They are all over the world. They control the satellites and make sure they are working well.
Some people think that in the future the GPS will be as common as the mobile. They are becoming cheaper and more and more accurate. Also there will be new uses for the GPS. Perhaps they will become like watches. Everyone will have one and you will never be lost anywhere.
GPS can help you find your position, can’t it?
What does a GPS look like?
How many things are mentioned that GPS devices can be put into?
Why do some people think GPS devices will be popular in the future?
What is the use of ground stations?
What is the author’s purpose of writing this passage?

An 8-year-old Miami boy, Joshua Williams, is president of his own non-profit organization---Joshua’s Save the World. His organization provides food and clothes for p
people and families in Miami and the neighboring areas.
Joshua has rthousands of dollars for his organization. He started to help the hungry when he was just 5. He was in his mother’s car when they passed a beggar. Joshua asked his mother to stop so that he could give him $20. “It’s my m. I want to help him, Mum,” Joshua recalled. One year later, he created his organization with the help of his mother and Francine Hanna, a local businesswoman. “He just thought that was what he wanted to do,” his mother said. “And there was nothing that could shim.”
The organization now provides clothing, furniture and food for the poor people in America. At the same time, Joshua never misses a cto encourage other people to follow what he did whether at church or on the streets. Earl Laird lost his job two years ago and hasn’t managed to get a none. Without money, he can’t pay for the flat and has to live on the street. He depends on food from Joshua’s Save the World. “Joshua is an angel (天使) from God,” he said.
Joshua has won Miami’s “Do the Right Thing” award and the “Kids Who Care” competition, which awarded him a $1,000 note. Even though he has adone plenty, he said that his
mission (使命)to provide for the poor is far from finished. “I want to get a team together,” Joshua said. “I want my team to go out and give food to people who have a need for it. I want to spread love to countries in Africa.”

Old George selected his food in the supermarket more carefully than NASA chose its astronauts. When he left the cashier, he was pleased to think that he had saved 80 cents today.
At the exit, the cold wind made him think of his gloves. He looked for them in his coat and pants but could not find them anywhere. He had bought the black gloves at a good price, for just $35, years ago. They were soft and very comfortable. He had taken great care looking after them, so they were in good condition.
George, calm on the outside but mad on the inside, re-entered the store. He followed the same route he had walked before. Several minutes of searching turned out to be in vain (徒劳). His black gloves were gone. “People have changed,” he said to himself. “Years ago, if somebody picked up something lost, they would give it back. Not any more!”
He stared at anybody wearing black gloves to see if they looked like his. On his way to the dairy section, he noticed a lady wearing a pair of black gloves. He sped up and in three seconds was in front of her. But when the surprised woman looked over, his eyes dropped, for her gloves were just far too small to be his. He went over to the cashier to ask if she had received any lost gloves, but she said no. He finally walked out into the street.
A few days later, poor George decided to buy another leather pair. Before getting on the subway, he stepped into the supermarket again to see if by any chance his gloves had been returned to the lost and found office. “What color are they?” the woman in the office asked. “Black,” he gave the same answer. She looked into her drawer and drew out a pair of men’s leather gloves. “Are they?”
“Yes! Those are mine,” George exclaimed, his eyes full of joy.
The author tells us that ________ in the first paragraph.

A．George was very poor

B．George was very strange

C．every cent was important to George

D．George was careless in shopping

The underlined phrase “in good condition” in Paragraph 2 probably means “________”.

A．excellent without damage	B．healthy
C．attractive	D．good-looking

George searched for his gloves in a mad way because ________.

A．they were a precious gift given by his friends

B．they were bought at a high price in a big store

C．he could not find other gloves as good as this pair

D．he would rather not spend money on another pair

When George realized he had probably lost his gloves, he ________.

A．thought someone had found his gloves and kept them

B．was calm and confident that he could get his gloves back

C．thought that there were more thieves nowadays than before

D．looked for his gloves everywhere including in the lost and found office

How do you think George felt when he finally left the supermarket without finding his gloves?

A．silly	B．disappointed
C．horrible	D．tired

When George entered the supermarket again a few days later, he ________.

A．decided to buy a better pair	B．wanted to try his luck
C．held no hope at all	D．felt very hopeful

A man was sitting in the doctor’s office. He was telling the doctor about his problem. “I like football, doctor,” he said. “Please help me. My life has been a good one since I became interested in football and it is getting worse and worse. I can’t even sleep well at night. When I close my eyes, I feel as if (好像) I’m there in the football field running after a flying ball. When I wake up, I’m more tired than I was when I went to bed. What am I going to do?
The doctor sat back and said, “First of all, you have to do your best not to dream about football. Before you are falling , try to think about something else. Try to think you are at a party and someone is going to give you several million dollars.”
“Oh!” the man shouted. “If so, I’ll be excited and I can’t close my eyes even for a short time.”