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39. The true meaning of the underlined sentence in the last paragraph is “______”. A. Stand on the ground and watch the stars B. Have a big dream and work hard C. Protect your eyesight while working D. Find a good way to watch the stars B ★★ When it comes to learning a foreign language, many people wonder if they will be able to memorize enough vocabulary. But this question never happens about their mother tongue, and yet, it was a foreign language once. However, among all the questions that new parents ask, no doctor has ever heard: “Will my baby be able to learn my language?” Be honest. Do you know all the words of your mother tongue? The answer is: “no”. New words, and new ways of using old words, appear every day. Twenty years ago, who would have been able to understand a sentence like this: “Click here to download your digital book”? Nobody. You never stop learning new vocabulary and you never know how long you will need it. Sometimes, you have the word on the tip of your tongue ... and it sticks there! But you do know this phenomenon (现象) and don’t think that it is because of a bad memory. You should not give this phenomenon more importance in the language you are learning than in your mother tongue. You need to learn only 2,000 or so basic words to be able to create any phrase you need. You can’t avoid (避开) some work in order to learn these necessary words and all the more if you want to learn quickly. And before you consider buying into any method, be sure it is right for you. It is not wise to depend on any method based upon memotechnics (记忆术). The first words seem very easy to learn; so, you buy the course; but then you discover quickly, though too late, that a dozen words later, it is all the more difficult to learn a new word when you have also to learn the trick to memorize it. 40. From the first paragraph, we know that ______. A. there is no need to know all the words of a foreign language B. it is honest to answer “no” to a question you don’t know C. a baby can know all the new words of its mother tongue D. people find it hard to memorize vocabulary of their language 41. The underlined sentence in Paragraph 3 probably means ______. A. you have no courage to speak the word B. you just fail to remember the word C. you are not sure of the word D. you daren’t open your mouth to speak the word 42. To learn a foreign language, the author advises you ______. A. to remember new words according to memotechnic7 B. to keep up with new ways of using old words C. to learn at least 2,000 necessary words D. to pay more attention to your bad memory 43. The passage is mainly about ______. A. using old words in a new way B. learning new words from the context C. finding a method to memorize vocabulary D. learning vocabulary of a foreign language C ★★★ Where can you go to listen to a cook, a senator (参议员) or a scientist talk about important subjects? BigThink.com is a new website created to provide discussions between world experts and Internet users. Subjects discussed on BigThink include the environment, music and questions about happiness and personal identity. The website has been called a YouTube for thinkers. Victoria Brown and Peter Hopkins created Big-Think.com. They said that people need an international stage on which to exchange, discuss, and debate the important ideas of our time. At the BigThink website, when you click on a subject, you find a video (视频) of a person talking about his or her ideas. For example, you can listen to United States Senator Ted Kennedy talking about education and civil rights. Under their videos, you can read the comments and questions written by other visitors to the website. More than one hundred experts express their ideas on the website. BigThink also has an important list of financial (财政的) supporters. These include Peter Thiel who helped create the PayPal company; Larry Summers, a former United States secretary of the Treasury, and David Frankel, a businessman from South Africa. BigThink’s creators started the website by first getting famous people to agree to be videotaped. They began by interviewing several well-known professors from Harvard University, which they had attended. Then they used the names of these professors to gain the trust of others and get them to take part in the pro-ject. The website says BigThink belongs to everyone. Its motto is: “We are what you think.” So, go online and start thinking big. 44. BigThink.com was created to ______. A. introduce the latest IT knowledge B. share funny videos with Internet users C. teach ordinary people some useful skills D. offer chances to communicate with experts 45. The first people interviewed by BigThink.com were some ______. A. scientistsB. professorsC. politicians D. cooks 46. We can infer from the passage that YouTube is ______. A. a famous library B. a online chat-room C. a video website D. a radio station (责任编辑：admin) |