There is no doubt about it．The best way to learn new words is to do it unconsciously．I don’t mean while you’re unconscious．I mean while you are unconscious of the fact that it is sinking in.
That is how I learnt the 30,000 words in my vocabulary by living in an English-speaking world, mother tongue．I just pick them up．But some of them may be misunderstood．Now, to misunderstand does not mean not to understand．To misunderstand is to understand but incorrectly.
The 5 % mislearnt of all the words we “know” will be the least frequently used words, as the more frequently used words are less likely to be mislearnt．Some of the misunderstandings may live with all our lives, without knowing that we got them wrong.
Many English teachers think that this natural method of learning words in one’s own mother tongue can be used for a second language learning．They teach their students how to play the Guessing Game．“There is no time to look up in your dictionaries all the new words you come across,” they will say．“You have to practise guessing what the word means from the context.”
This method of guessing in a second language learning does not work．It may succeed in many cases, but results in hundreds or thousands of wrongly-guessed meanings of words.
And what’s more, there are more separate meanings than there are words themselves．Our learners’ dictionaries usually have many meanings．A good dictionary is what makes self-learning possible.
Don’t guess! Look it up!
1.It is certain that the best way to learn new words is _____________.
A．to learn them by oneself
B．to learn by living in an English-speaking world and using them frequently
C．to guess them from the context
D．to get more separate meanings of each word
2.The underlined word “them” in Paragraph 2 refers to _________.
A．the 30,000 words B．English teachers
C．misunderstood words D．frequently used words
3.Which of the following is most likely NOT true?
A．Some of the words the writer knows must have been misunderstood.
B．Most of the 30,000 words the writer learned are frequently used ones．
C．How many words the writer got wrong are not known.
D．All the words the writer knows were learned by reading them.
4.It can be inferred that _________.
A．when somebody is conscious, he or she usually can’t learn new words by heart
B．we must use the words as often as possible in order to master them
C．it’s the best way to learn new words that one should only guess their meanings from the context
D．only dictionaries can help us learn language well
假设你是李华，将参加主题为"Let's Ride Bicycles"的英语演讲比赛。请撰写一份演讲稿，主要内容包括：
1.目前汽车带来的空气污染和交通堵塞等问题；
2.骑自行车的益处，如节能环保、有利健康等。
参考词汇：低碳生活（low-carbon life）；节能（energy saving）
注意：
1. 词数 100 左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3. 开头语已为你写好。
Good morning, everyone,
I am Li Hua. The topic of my speech is "Let's Ride Bicycles".
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Thank you!
阅读下列各小题，根据括号内的汉语提示，用句末括号内的英语单词完成句子。并将正确答案写在答题卷的相应位置。
1.When they were about to kill him, he begged them to _________________________ (对……表示怜悯)him. ( on )
2.Simon _________________________ ( 屏住呼吸) and dived under the surface. ( hold)
3.We live in a world in which only the strongest can _________________________（成功到达）the top. （ it ）
4.Mr Brown _________________________（谋生）by selling newspapers when he was young. （live）
5.We were sitting peacefully at dinner when _________________________（突然）the light went out. （ all ）
6.Whatever the weather is like tomorrow, our ship will ______________________ (启航去) Macao. （set）
7.This dictionary is _________________________ ( 5倍厚) as the one you borrowed from the library. (thick)
8.I could have come earlier but my car _________________________(抛锚了） on the road. （break）
9. If you eat fast food once a week or more, you may _________________________( 上瘾 ) it. （addict）
10._________________________(无论他去哪儿）, he carried a notebook around with him,in which he wrote down his ideas. (go)
根据下列各句句意及所给单词的首字母或汉语提示，写出该单词的正确形式。请在答案卷上写出完整的单词。
1.I like abstract paintings because you have to use your own i_______________ to understand what the painter is trying to do.
2.During the Spring Festival, the c_______________ “ Fu (福)” is pasted upside down on the door to express people’s wish for the coming of happiness.
3. She was e_______________ dressed with a double strand (串）of pearls about her neck.
4.He did finally come with us, although it took a long time to_______________ (说服) him.
5.Foshan has abundant tourism(旅游) resources where one of the most famous a_____________is Qinghui Garden.
6.Pictures are scanned into a form of digital information that computers can _______________ (识别).
7.The s_______________ between the two reports suggests that one person wrote both.
8.He was so a_______________ to return home that he had booked a train ticket before the
vacation began.
9.In learning a new hobby, a new sports, or a new language, _______________( 耐心）is very much needed.
10. Please bring me the book whenever it's_______________ (方便).
语法填空
阅读下面材料，在空格处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
Using Garbage as a Fuel
Garbage can be a good fuel to use. The things in garbage do not look 1. coal, petroleum, or natural gas, but they are chemically similar to these fossil fuels. As we use up our fossil fuel supplies, we might be able to use garbage as 2. energy source. Burning garbage 3. ( be) not a new idea. Some cities in Europe and the United States 4. (burn) garbage for years. The heat that is produced by burning garbage is used to boil water. The steam that is produced is used to make electricity or to heat nearby 5. ( build). In Paris, France, some power plants burn almost 2 million metric tons of the city’s garbage each year. The amount of energy 6. (produce) is about the same as would be produced by burning almost a half million barrels of oil!
But there are problems in using garbage as a fuel. Garbage that burns 7. (easy) , such as food and paper, must be separated from metals, glass, and other materials 8. do not. Another problem is that burning garbage can pollute the air. Our fossil fuel supplies are 9. (limit) . Burning garbage might be one kind of energy source that we can use to help meet our energy needs. This method could also reduce the amount of garbage 10. (pile) up on the earth.
完形填空
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
We all know that sports may help us become stronger. But their_________ go far beyond this. Research shows that sports that _________ aiming and hitting skills, for example, tennis, badminton and baseball, help children increase _________ . They help develop leadership qualities and _________ team spirit in kids. They involve competition. Playing sports teaches them to accept _________ with a positive spirit when they lose a game.
Playing sports does a lot of good to the development of _________ skills. Sports teach you to communicate with people and work together as a _________ . Sports improve collective thinking and help develop your planning and organizational skills, too. Sports build _________ , since winning a game always gives you a sense of accomplishment.
Playing sports requires you to strategize(制定策略). You need to be very _________ to score goals or earn points. You need to _________ strategies to win. You need to judge your competitor’s strategy and change yours _________ . This certainly involves clever thinking, which sports _________ . Studies show that kids who play sports _________ do well in school and college.
Playing sports brings you _________ . Jumping about, running around, racing to get ahead, _________ , falling and standing up again, all of them are a(n) _________ of playing sports. There is no _________ to the happiness this brings. _________ , sports are a form of exercise which produces happiness molecules (分子) in your body, thus improving your mental health. You can’t be sad _________ playing sports. Sports produce _________ energy in you and the people around you.
1.A. courses B. benefits C. challenges D. decisions
2.A. add B. fit C. lack D. involve
3.A. focus B. courage C. weight D. strength
4.A. break B. shake C. raise D. change
5.A. explanations B. punishments C. congratulations D. failures
6.A. musical B. social C. medical D. technical
7.A. team B. nation C. class D. family
8.A. friendship B. judgment C. confidence D. enthusiasm
9.A. strong B. smart C. generous D. humorous
10.A. put off B. make up C. take over D. work out
11.A. accordingly B. generally C. equally D. largely
12.A. prepare B. recognize C. encourage D. promise
13.A. formally B. frequently C. naturally D. completely
14.A. hope B. honor C. pride D. pleasure
15.A. cheering B. dreaming C. chatting D. quarreling
16.A. case B. field C. part D. amount
17.A. method B. match C. risk D. trouble
18.A. For example B. As a result C. In addition D. In other words
19.A. while B. before C. unless D. since
20.A. serious B. nervous C. positive D. creative
