Question

Is learning a foreign language ever easy? Yes. If you are five and move to another country, you will quickly pick up the language. But what about for the rest of us who are no longer five, and need to be polite when traveling for business or for pleasure? I think that answer is also yes. Language learning can be easy if you don’t want or need to learn too much.

The key to successful language learning in my mind is not to set the goal too high. It is rather like running. Even if you run twice a week, you don’t necessarily want to be able to run a marathon (马拉松). You might just want to keep a level of fitness. I think the same can be true for language learning.

Let’s get back to the goal. If you decide to learn ten words in a foreign language before visiting the country, you know that you will be sure to do this. However, if you decide to talk to people with great fluency (流利), unless you are quite a talented person, you will probably fail and give up in half-way.

It is also far easier to start learning a foreign language than to finish. In other words, the better you are, the slower it can be to improve, because you will not be able to move further because of grammar, making sentences, learning less common words, etc. If you are only trying to learn a few foreign words and sentences, you will enjoy faster progress, have more fun, and won’t have to spend too much time.

The idea of learning only a few hundred words in a language, and then stopping, isn’t the usual way to language learning, but it can be a very meaningful and enjoyable activity.

1.In the writer’s opinion, it is easy for adults to learn English if _______.

A．they are especially talented people

B．they don’t want or need to learn too much

C．they have to spend a lot of time on it

D．they have a chance to go abroad

2.The writer believes that if you want to be good at a foreign language, you will probably _______.

A．forget your own goals

B．become a talented language learner

C．get tired of learning it

D．reach your learning goal

3.The best title of this passage would be _______.

A．Easy Language Learning                   B．Hard Language Learning

C．Fluency in a Foreign Language              D．A way of Language Learning

 

Answer 1

【答案】

1.B

2.C

3.A

【解析】

试题分析：本文主要讲述了学习一门外语是一件很容易的事情，并重点论述了其原因。

1.根据 Language learning can be easy if you don’t want or need to learn too much. 可知，成年人学英语如果不需要学太多，也是比较容易的。所以本题选B。

2.根据unless you are quite a talented person, you will probably fail and give up in half-way. 可知，要想熟练运用一门外语，除非你是天才，否则可能会失败或中途放弃。所以本题选C。

3.通过阅读全文可知，本文主要讲述了学习一门外语是很容易的事，所以本题选A。

考点：本题考查教育类文章

点评：本文的意思不是很好理解，需要反复阅读，了解全文大意。本题的小题需要根据文章的意思进行判断，在文中不能找到直接的答案，这都需要进行推测。另外要注意文章出现的合成词，对理解文章的意思也很有帮助。