Read the passage below and fill each blank with one suitable word. (2.0 points)Part 1: Most students, in their own countries have had little opportunity to practise using English. When foreign learners first have the ( 1 ) ………. to speak to an English-speaking person they may have a shock: they often ( 2 ) ………… great difficulty in understanding. I’ll just mention three of...
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Read the passage below and fill each blank with one suitable word. (2.0 points)
Part 1:
Most students, in their own countries have had little opportunity to practise using English. When foreign learners first have the ( 1 ) ………. to speak to an English-speaking person they may have a shock: they often ( 2 ) ………… great difficulty in understanding. I’ll just mention three of the possible reasons for this.
First, it seems to students that English people speak very quickly. ( 3 ) ………, they speak with a variety of accents. Third, different styles of speech are used. For all of these reasons ( 4 ) ……….. will have difficulty, mainly because they lack everyday practice in listening to English people speaking English.
( 5 ) ………….. can a student do then to overcome these difficulties? Obviously, attend English classes and if a language laboratory is available, use it as ( 6 ) ………… as possible. He should listen to programs in English on the radio and TV. Perhaps, most important of ( 7 ) ……………… , he should take every opportunity to meet and speak with native English-speaking people.
In addition, the student probably has difficulty in speaking English fluently. The advice here will seem ( 8 ) ………. to follow but it’s necessary. Firstly, he must simplify what he wants to say so that he can express himself reasonably and clearly. Secondly, he must try to think in English, ( 9 ) ………… translate from his mother tongue. This will only begin to take place when his use of English become automatic; using a language laboratory ( 10 ) ………. listening to as much English as possible will help.
Jane is twenty- six (1)____years_______ old. She lives with her family in an (2)_____apartment____ in London. There are four (3) ____people______in her family. Her parents (4) _____work_____ in a hospital. Her brother is a (5) ___student_______ at university. Jane works (6) ______as____ a travel writer for a magazine. She (7) ____goes_____abroad five or six times a year.
Now she is traveling in South America. She does not (8) ______speak_____ Spanish very well, but she is studying it at the moment (9)___because_____ she needs to talk to local people. Every evening she writes notes about people (10) _____and_____ places.
1, years
2, apartment
3, members
4, work
5, student
6, as
7, goes
8, speak
9, because
10, and