Are you learning English and do you need help with grammar? Do you want to learn new vocabulary or slang (俚语)? Well, you can find help online with these top 5 free English as a Second Language websites.
Dave’s ESL Café
This is a complete website that can help you learn and practice English. You can read many stories and do a lot of exercises to test your self. You c an also post questions and answers onto the help center.
About.com
You can get free English courses from About.com and you’ll get regular e-mails that will help you learn English.
The Classroom by Voice of America
You can watch videos and listen to news stories to improve your listening and vocabulary skills. You can also hear English words and their meanings.
Heinle’s Newbury House Dictionary of American English
Do you need to find the definition of a word? Use this online dictionary to find simple and clear definitions, as well as example sentences and idioms (习语). You can also find different cultural facts.
Perso nal English Portal (门户网站) on YouTube
You can watch this series of videos on YouTube to develop your listening skills. You can also do a search for “learn English” on YouTube to find other videos. This is a good way to practice English and have fun.If you want to do English exercises and test yourself, you can go to .
| A．About.com | B．YouTube |
| C．Dave’s ESL Cafe | D．the Classroom by Voice of America |
You can at the help center on the website Dave’s ESL Cafe.
| A．watch videos and pictures |
| B．listen to news and music |
| C．watch movies and matches |
| D．read questions and answers |
About.com often sends e-mails to its visitors to help them .
| A．get relaxed | B．have fun |
| C．become famous | D．learn English |
The underlined word “definition” means “ ” in Chinese.
| A．来源 | B．释义 |
| C．意图 | D．背景 |
From Heinle’s Newbury House Dictionary of American English, you can find .
| A．cultural information | B．online libraries |
| C．interesting news | D．many storybooks |
Everybody can suffer from stress．No matter what your age is, you can feel stressed out by things that are happening in your life．Teenagers, however, have many more opportunities to get stressed than people in any other age group．Being a teenager is hard．You are not a child any more, but you are not an adult, even though you have to deal with some very grown-up problems and decisions．Families can be one of the biggest causes of stress, such as problems with parents arguing at home．or problems with brothers and sisters．Teenagers also have a lot of stress from school, either from their teachers or from their friends．Some teenagers also feel stressed about choosing their education after high school．Getting a place at university can be very difficult and some cannot afford to go to university．The stress about getting a job when finishing school is hard for some teenagers．There are so many young people finishing school and not enough jobs for them．Sadly, there is nothing we can do to remove these causes of stress from the 1ives of teenagers, but you can learn the best way to deal with it．Talking to people is one of the best ways to deal with stress．It may sound simple, but it is true．A problem shared is a problem halved．Why is being a teenager often difficult?
| A．Because even though you are not an adult, you must deal with adult problems． |
| B．Because even though you are an adult, you must deal with children’s problems． |
| C．Because even though you are a teenager, you must do a lot of homework． |
| D．Because adults often make them feel stressed． |
Families can add to the stress a teenager might experience ______．
| A．by asking them to go to university |
| B．by helping them with their homework |
| C．as teenagers quarrel with their parents, and their brothers or sisters |
| D．as families never support their children enough |
Why can finding a job after finishing school be difficult?
| A．Because there is a lot of competition for jobs． |
| B．Because there are no jobs． |
| C．Because a job is more difficult than school work． |
| D．Because there is a lot of competition for places at university． |
We can deal with the stress in our life ______．
| A．by not trying to find a job |
| B．by forgetting about our problems |
| C．by getting a place at university |
| D．by sharing our problems with our friends |
When tea and coffee were first introduced to Europe in the 18th century, people had different ideas about their use.Some said that tea and coffee were harmful to humans and they could cause （引起）people to die.
In Sweden（瑞典）, King Gustaf Ⅲ decided to find out whether or not this was true.It happened that there were two brothers in prison at that time.They were twins and were almost alike in every way.They had both been sentenced to death (判处死刑).The King decided to let them live if one of the men agreed to drink several cups of tea each day and the other several cups of coffee.
Both brothers lived many years without problems of any kind.At last,the brother who had drunk tea every day died at the age of 83,the other died a few years later.
Because of the experiment(实验), tea and coffee got accepted (接受) and became popular as drink in Sweden, and it is one of the many countries of the world where much tea and coffee is drunk today.Tea and coffee were first introducd to Europe in_______.
| A．the eighteenth century | B．the eighteen century |
| C．eighteenth centuries | D．eighteen centuries |
What does the word harmful mean in Chinese?---It means________.
| A．有趣的 | B．苦涩无味的 | C．有害的 | D．可口的 |
The brother who had drunk tea every day lived______.
| A．until he was over 83 |
| B．until he was 83 |
| C．until the other had been dead for several years |
| D．until he had drunk tea for a few years |
Today the Swedish drink_________.
| A．much more coffee than tea | B．much tea and coffee |
| C．little tea and coffee | D．much tea but little coffee |
March 29, 2013 Sunny
Today was the Hungry Luncheon (饥饿午餐日). Every year, at our school, there is a lunch event called the Hungry Luncheon.
If you want to join the event, you must pay two dollars at the door of the dining hall and get a letter. All the money is used for helping those poor people who don’t have enough (足够的) food to eat. My letter was “K”.
After all the students sat down, the teachers called the letters for the meals: 15% of the students got to eat a best dinner. 25% of the students got to eat an Okay meal. But 60% of the students just had a small piece of bread and a small cup of water!
The purpose (目的) of this event is to tell us about the unfairness (不公平) of the world, and that we need to start helping the poor!
I was one of the 60% of the students. I was a little hungry for the rest of the day, but I learned something from this special lesson. Now every time I eat, I think about the poor.
A bag is useful and the word “bag” is useful, too. Here is an interesting phrase（短语）, “to let the cat out of the bag”. In meaning it is the same as “to tell the secret（秘密）”. And there is an old interesting story about it.
Long ago, when farmers wanted to sell chickens at the market, they would usually just throw the chickens in cloth (布) bags. But cats were cheaper than chickens at that time, so many farmers would put cats into the cloth bags but not chickens. One day, a woman asked a man for a chicken. The man gave her a cloth bag in which there was a cat. When the man opened the cloth bag, a big black cat ran out. Not a chicken! The man’s secret was out and everyone knew it.
Now when we say someone gives away a secret, we say “he lets the cat out of the bag”. And that is the story where the interesting phrase came from.The underlined word “it” in the passage refers to (指的是) .
| A．the useful bag | B．the phrase | C．the cat | D．the chicken |
The farmers put cats but not chickens in the bags to when they sold chickens.
| A．tell the secret | B．sell the cats |
| C．get more money | D．keep the cats quiet |
Which is the best for the blank (空白处) in the passage?
| A．The woman was angry to see a cat. | B．The man put a cat in the bag. |
| C．The man asked her to see the chicken. | D．The woman wanted to see the chicken. |
The writer wrote the story to tell us .
| A．the woman was smart | B．how farmers sold their cats |
| C．the phrase is useful | D．where the phrase came from |
Look at the picture on the right. What is it? Yeah, it’s a special robot car，ROPITS. Japan made it this year. It’s a new kind of car. The car can drive itself. It is very easy for people to use it.
ROPITS is short for Robot for Personal Intelligent Transport System (个人智能交通系统机器人). ROPITS has only one seat. The Japanese made it for old and disabled (残疾的) people in Japan.
What makes the ROPITS special? One can ask it to pick him or her up from a computer or a smart-phone. After he or she gets in the car and tells the ROPITS where to go, it will begin to drive itself and let the driver enjoy the ride.
The ROPITS will not have traffic accidents (事故) because it drives very slowly, not more than 7 kilometers an hour. This passage is about a new kind of .
| A．car | B．bicycle | C．smart-phone | D．computer |
The ROPITS is special because .
| A．it is only for people in Japan | B．it can drive itself all the way |
| C．it can drive fast on the road | D．it is for the old and disabled people |
From the passage we know that .
| A．ROPITS is big and smart |
| B．people must learn to drive ROPITS |
| C．only old and disabled people can use ROPITS |
| D．ROPITS is helpful for the old and the disabled people |
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