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A)需要10万人使用的一种语言才能生存 , 不然它就会消亡。
B)操这门语言的 10万多人已随同这门语言消亡。
C)这门已经死亡的语言还有 10万多人在使用。
D) 一种语言至少需要 10万人使用才能生存 , 否则它将会消亡。
E)为了挽救一种语言 , 需要让10万多人使用它, 否则它就不能生存。
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Para. 4 suggests that one characteristic of this book is its______.
A．vividness of the language
B．simplicity in presentation
C．adaptability to various needs
D．complexity of the plot
At Language upon Thames, we feel it is important to be flexible, in order that students can decide what period of study suits them best.
Small Group General English Courses
These courses are aimed at students who wish to improve their speaking, listening, reading and writing skills and are offered at the following levels:
BEGINNERS
ELEMENTARY(初级)
PRE-1NTERMEDLATE
UPPER-INTERMEDLATE
Studying one of the above courses will enable you to use English more confidently and competently on a daily basis.
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Exam Courses
These courses are aimed at students who wish to gain academic qualifications in English and are offered at the following levels:
University of Cambridge exams:
ADVANCED 1 — FCE (First certificate)
ADVANCED 2 — CAE (Advanced)
ADVANCED 3 — CPE (Proficiency)
Studying one of the above courses will enable you to continue your education or enter university in this country. (Students wishing to gain admission to a British university are normally required to have the Cambridge Proficiency Certificate.)
Speaking, Listening & Pronunciation
This course builds on communicative confidence and competence and is aimed at students who wish to develop the important skills of speaking and listening.
Emphasis is also placed on pronunciation, with activities designed to meet the needs of students of different nationalities, who need to focus on different areas.
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Other Languages
At Language upon Thames we offer a wide range of cafeterias, restaurants, shops and bars.
Most importantly, we have foreign language classes of French, Japanese, German, Spanish and Italian during the day, evening or on a one-to-one basis.
What does this passage mainly talk about？
A．English courses.
B．Ways to improve students' English.
C．The best way to improve your skills.
D．The importance of English.
To the professional anthropologist, there is no intrinsic superiority of one culture (2)_____ another, just as to the professional linguist there is no intrinsic (3)_____ among the different languages.
People once (4)_____ the languages of backward groups as savage, undeveloped (5)_____ of speech, consisting largely of grunts and groans. (6)_____ it is possible that language (7)_____ began as a series of grunts and groans, it is a fact established by the study of "backward" languages (8)_____ no spoken tongue answers that description today. Most languages of (9)_____ groups are, by our most severe standards, extremely (10)_____, delicate, and ingenious pieces of machinery for the transfer of ideas. They (11)_____ behind our Western languages not in their sound patterns or grammatical structures, which usually are fully adequate for all language needs, (12)_____ only in their vocabularies, which reflect their speakers' social (13)_____.
Even in this department, (14)_____, two things are to be noted: 1) All languages seem to (15)_____ the machinery for vocabulary expansion, either by putting together words already in existence (16)_____ by borrowing them from other languages and adapting them to their own system. 2) The objects and activities requiring names and (17)_____ in "backward" languages, while different from ours, are often (18)_____ numerous and complicated. A Western languages distinguishes merely between two degrees of remoteness ("this" and "that"); some languages of the American Indians distinguish between what is close to the speaker or to the person (19)_____ and what is removed from both, or out of sight, or in the past, or in the future.
This study of language, in turn, (20)_____ a new light upon the claim of the anthropologists that all cultures are to be viewed independently, and without ideas of rank.
A．perspective
B．sense
C．dimension
D．manner
A study just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences may help resolve this question by getting to the point of what is going on in a bilingual child’s brain, how a second language affects the way he thinks, and thus in what circumstances being bilingual may be helpful. Agnes Kovacs and Jacques Mehler at the International School for Advanced Studies in Trieste say that some aspects of the cognitive development of infants raised in a bilingual household must be undergoing acceleration in order to manage which of the two languages they are dealing with.
The aspect of cognition in question is part of what is termed the brain’s “executive function”. This allows people to organise, plan, prioritise activity, shift their attention from one thing to another and suppress habitual responses. Bilingualism is common in Trieste which, though Italian, is almost surrounded by Slovenia. So Dr. Kovacs and Dr. Mehler looked at 40 “preverbal” seven-month-olds, half raised in monolingual and half in bilingual households, and compared their performances in a task that needs control of executive function.
First, the babies were trained to expect the appearance of a puppet on a screen after they had heard a set of meaningless words invented by the researchers. Then the words, and the location of the puppet, were changed. When this was done, the babies who speak only one language had difficulty overcoming their learnt response, even when the researchers gave them further clues that a switch had taken place. The bilingual babies, however, found it far easier to switch their attention — counteracting the previously learnt, but no longer useful response.
Monitoring languages and .keeping them separate is part of the brain’s executive function, so these findings suggest that even before a child can speak, a bilingual environment may speed up that function’s development. Before rushing your offspring into bilingual kindergartens, though, there are a few cautions. For one thing, these extraordinary cognitive benefits have been demonstrated so far only in “crib” bilinguals — those living in households where two languages are spoken routinely. The researchers speculate that it might be the fact of having to learn two languages in the same setting that requires greater use of executive function. So whether those benefits apply to children who learn one language at home, and one at school, remains unclear.
Who are probably pushing young children to study a new language？
A．Parents.
B．Teachers.
C．Researchers.
D．Children themselves.
Deeply involved with this new technology is a breed of modern business people who have a growing respect for the economic value of doing business abroaIn modern markets, success overseas often helps support domestic business efforts.
Overseas assignments are becoming increasingly important to advancement within executive ranks. The executive stationed in another country no longer need fear being “out of sight and out of mind.” He or she canbe sure that the overseas effort is central to the company’s plan for success, and that promotions often follow or accompany an assignment abroaIf an employee can succeed in a difficult assignment overseas, superiors will have greater confidence in his or her ability to cope back in the United States where cross-cultural considerations and foreign language issues are becoming more and more prevalent (普遍的).
Thanks to a variety of relatively inexpensive communications devices with business applications, even small businesses in the United States are able to get into international markets.
English is still the international language of business. But there is an ever-growing need for people who can speak another language. A second language isn’t generally required to get a job in business, but having language skills gives a candidate the edge when other qualifications appear to be equal.
The employee posted abroad who speaks the country’s principal language has an opportunity to fast-forwardcertain negotiations, and cam have the cultural insight to know when it is better to move more slowly. Theemployee at the home office who can communicate well with foreign clients over the telephone or by fax machine is an obvious asset to the firm.
Choose correct answers to the question:
What is the author’s attitude toward high-tech communications equipment？
A.Critical
B.Prejudiced
C.Indifferent
D.Positive
With the increased use of high-tech communications equipment, businesspeople ________.A.have to get familiar with modern technology
B.are gaining more economic benefits from domestic operations
C.are attaching more importance to their overseas business
D.are eager to work overseas
In this passage,“out of sight and out of mind” (Lines 2-3, Para 3) probably means ________.A.being unable to think properly for lack of insight
B.being totally out of touch with business at home
C.missing opportunities for promotion when abroad
D.leaving all care and worry behind
According to the passage, what is an important consideration of international corporationsin employingpeople today？A.Connections with businesses overseas.
B.Ability to speak the client’s language.
C.Technical know-how.
D.Business experience.
The advantage of employees having foreign language skills is that they can ________.A.better control the whole negotiation process
B.easily find new approaches to meet market needs
C.fast-forward their proposals to headquarters
D.easily make friends with businesspeople abroad
请帮忙给出每个问题的正确答案和分析，谢谢！
Read the following paragraphs and then answer four questions. (北外2011研) The idea behind the experiential vision of learning is that the use of the target language for communicative purposes is not only the goal of learning, but also a means of learning in its own right. This may clearly involve students using language which they may not have fully mastered, and contrasts with other more traditional approaches which emphasize part practice(i. e. , isolating parts of the whole for explicit study and learning)leading up in a more or less controlled manner to integrated language use for communicative purposes. An experiential approach to learning may therefore involve a degree of what Johnson(1982)refers to as an in at the deep end strategy. Simply throwing learners into wholly uncontrolled and undirected language use is, of course, as dubious a strategy with respect to language learning as doing the same with someone who is learning to swim. For this reason, considerable effort has been devoted by methodologists, material writers, and teachers in recent decades to the way in which two sets of factors can be combined. One is the basic insight that language use can serve a significant role in promoting learning, and the other is the acknowledgement that use of the language needs to be structured in a coherent and pedagogically manageable way. The experiential vision of learning has evolved in a variety of ways since the 1960s and is now encountered in a number of differing forms. Nevertheless, most experiential approaches to learning rest on five main principles which were developed in the earlier days of the communicative movement, even if certain receive more attention in one variant than in another. These principles are the following: message focus, holistic practice, the use of authentic materials, the use of communication strategies, and the use of collaborative modes of learning.(Tudor 2001: 79) An analytical view of learning posits that according explicit attention to the regularities of language and language use can play a positive role in learning. Each language manifests a number of structural regularities in areas such as grammar, lexis and phonology, and also with respect to the ways in which these elements are combined to communicate messages. The question, therefore, is not whether languages have structural regularities or not, but whether and in which way explicit attention to such regularities can facilitate the learning of the language. An analytical approach to learning rests on a more or less marked degree of part practice, i. e. , isolating parts of the whole for explicit study and learning, even if its ultimate goal remains the development of learners ability to put these parts together for integrated, holistic use. At least, two main considerations lend support to an analytical approach to learning. First, in terms of learning in general, the isolation and practice of sub-parts of a target skill is a fairly common phenomenon Second, explicit identification of regularities in a language has advantages which Johnson(1996: 83)refers to as generativity and economy. Mastering a regularity in a language gives learners access to the generative potential of this regularity in new circumstances Explicit presentation or discovery of the structural regularities of a language can therefore represent a short-cut to mastery of this language and support learners ability to manipulate these regularities for communicative purposes.(Tudor 2001: 86-7) (1)What are the differences between experiential and analytical modes of language learning？ (2)What serves as the theoretical foundation for the experiential mode of language learning and what are its advantages and disadvantages？ (3)What serves as the theoretical foundation for the analytical mode of language learning and what are its advantages and disadvantages？ (4)How would you balance the two modes of learning in your teaching or learning of a foreign language？
But what is Homestay？ And what makes it so popular？
Homestay means lving with a family, or "host family" as we say.There are three ways of doing it:
Choose to learn English in a language school near to your Homestay location; Have your English classes in the house with a member of the family who is a qualfied teacher; Select not to have classes at all when you visit- a popular choice if you want to do the tourist thing for example.Even in their busy summer period the organizations that arrange the Homestays will always try to place you with the most suitable host family to match your requirements.Placement(安置) organizations think about locatinterests,anguage lveleating requirements alrgies过敏)and other requests you may have.
Though prices vary according to your needs, good quality Homestay accommodation can be relatively economical and although you may be charged an extra amount of money if you want your Homestay in or near the city center Even if you stay further out, you can expect your journey into the center not to exceed 30 minutes.
Not only dpes Homestay accommodation represent value for money, it also gives you an excellent opportunity to practice English with your host familyThis is a very important extra for students who like to speak as much English as pssible.But if you plan to learn English, why not have your English classes in your host family.There' s no better way to lear English than this- the perfect combination of learning and accommodation combined with the cultural experience!
1.Homestay is an ideal choice for students who（）。
A.want to leam statistics
B.plan to study overseas
C.plan to visit relatives
D.want to stay at home
2.Who will consider students' requirements before their Homestay starts？
A.The language school.
B.The host family.
C.The English teacher.
D.The placement organization.
3.Which of the fllowing is a key factor affecting the price of Homestay？
A.Students' specific needs.
B.Students language level.
C.Nationality of the host family.
D.Eating habits of the host family.
