Sing the Language You’re Learning
How can you remember a song from your childhood to this day? Why do your teachers use songs to teach you English? It seems there is a scientific reason for this.
Researchers are now studying the relationship between music and remembering a foreign language. They find that remembering words in a song is the best way to remember even the most difficult language.
“Singing could be a new way of learning a foreign language. The brain likes to remember things when they are used in a catchy and meaningful way”, said Dr, Karen Ludke. The findings may help those who have difficulties learning foreign languages. On his blog, Dr. Ludke writes, “A listen-and-repeat singing method can support foreign language learning, and opens the door for future research in this area.”
Many language teachers know the value of using music and singing. Hua Zhuying, a teacher at a Chinese language school in Washington, D.C. depends heavily on songs in teaching Chinese. She says, “I use music all the time to teach children Chinese. For little kids usually we use the music. Not only does it work, but it is fun for kids.”
“Sometimes, I think if I were taught English that way, maybe I could speak much better English than now,” Hua Zhuying adds.
Our brain likes music, especially for remembering. So, if you’re still struggling in learning a language, why not try singing it out ?
According to the passage, the best way to remember a foreign language is to .
| A．read and write more |
| B．listen to the teacher carefully |
| C．copy the words many times. |
| D．remember words in a song |
The underlined word “catchy” probably means “ “
| A．艰涩难懂的 | B．悦耳易记的 |
| C．枯燥乏味的 | D．震耳欲聋的 |
Dr. Ludke believes that foreign language learning can be supported by .
| A．using the listen-and-repeat singing method |
| B．listening to all kinds of famous music |
| C．writing songs with the language |
| D．reading the lyrics again and again |
From the passage, we know that Hua Zhuying .
| A．is interested in writing English songs |
| B．teaches children English by using music |
| C．teaches Chinese in an American school |
| D．is a researcher in a language school |
The passage mainly tells us that .
| A．many researchers realize the importance of language studying |
| B．your brain remembers a language better if you sing it. |
| C．many language teachers know the value of famous music |
| D．you will never learn a language well unless you can sing |
Recently, more and more people are reported dead from drowning(溺水) accidents. Here are two reports from www.sinhuanet.com.
Seven People Drowned in a Reservoir(水库)
Reporter Tang got the news from Guangdong Provincial Government that people died in a drowning accident on April 5th, 2015. A 17-year-old girl , Xiao Yi, fell into a reservoir while washing hands after a tomb(墓) sweeping with her family. Her sister, her parents , her brother and some of her relatives jumped into the water one after one to save her, although they didn’t have good swimming skills. Unfortunately, none of them succeeded. As a result, Xiao Yi ans six of her family members lost their lives.
Three People Lost Their Lives in the Dongjiang River
On May 1st, 2015, seven middle school students went swimming in the Dongjiang River. At first, they had a great time playing in the water. Suddenly one of the boys had a cramp(抽筋) . He went up and down in the water and shouted for help. Two of them tried to save him, but got drowned. At that time, a man called Li Jinlin was fishing nearby. When he heard the shout, he jumped into the water without a second thought. He tried his best to save the second one, he ran out of energy and couldn’t go up again. Two students and he lost their loves.
Information CardThe website for the readers to get the news reports
The time of the first accident
The thing Xiao Yi was doing when she fell into the reservoir
The person who saved a student in the Dongjiang River
The number of the people who lost lives in the two accidents
It is reported that some developed counties have shipped broken parts of computes to China.Such a thing can be founded every day although it is against international laws. Last month Hong Kong officers found 131,000 kilograms of broken computers, TVs and phones send from Japan.
Things like these are called electronic waste, or e-waste. Dealing with is not an easy job because dangerous poison like mercury(汞)and lead (铅)can be found in them. Every time an old computer breaks down, it needs to be deal with safely. But at present, broken computer parts are usually buried. It may be hundreds of years before they are really goes in the earth.
Many places in China are polluted by e-waste. Guiyu in Guangdong province is one of them. This town is named as”the e-waste capital of the world”. It has to deal with 1.5mllion kilograms of e-waste each year, from which it makes 75 million years. But it comes at a cost. Many of the poison in e-waste find their way into the environment. Plastic is burned outdoors and chemical water is poured into rivers, Greenpeace, an environmental group, has found the air, the earth and the rivers in Guiyu badly polluted.
The Chinese government wants the country to develop, but in a way that doesn;t do harm to the environment and people’s life. This year,China presents a new protection law, the strictest one we have ever had. Computer complies like Lenovo and Dell will be asked to take back their old computers. This is because the complies that make computers know best to deal with them safely. Hopefully, the problem with e-waste will be solved in near future.The e-waste found in Hong Kong last month was from________.
| A．France | B．Japan | C．Germany | D．Australia |
The underlined word buried probably means ______in the passage.
| A．焚烧 | B．障碍 | C．回收 | D．掩埋 |
The town of Guiya in Guangdong Province_________.
| A．is the e-capital of the world |
| B．has serious e-waste pollution |
| C．Deals with e-waste safely |
| D．speeds much money on e-waste |
This year,the Chinese government__________.
| A．tried to change people’s life |
| B．closed some computer complies |
| C．make a new environment protection law |
| D．asked people to hand in their old computers |
The passage is mainly about________.
| A．the way in deal with e-waste |
| B．the cost of burning e-waste |
| C．the e-waste problem in China |
| D．the need to pass a law against e-waste |
Garden Tour & Cooking Class 909 North Cumbre Road. Santa Barara, CA
Saturday, October 24, 2015. 9:30am-1:00pm
Cook with Suzzane Traditionally, American Indians’ dishes were made with corn,beans,potatoes and pumpkin. Takea tour around Trinity Garden, pick some of these foods and returns in the kitchen. There you can watch Suzzane prepare delicious dishes with them.It is surely a new experience! Suzzane will make an introduction of three traditional foods and tell you what they meant to the American Indians hundreds of years ago. At the same time,you can learn how to cook with these autumn harvest(收获) vegetables.
The means includes the following:
Hot Potato Pie with Cornbread Topping
Thanksgiving Soup
Fresh Vegetable Salad
Trinity Fruit Ice-cream
★$35 per person,including printed recipes (菜谱), the four dishes above and a book by Suzzane, Children under 8 can come for free.
★Booking by email by Oct 15; Suzzane landry @ alt. Net
About Suzzane Landry: She is the writer of Healthy Eating and Fresh Food Matters. To look for new ideas to add to her cooking, she traveled a lot,working in kitchen all over the world.This brought her the idea of “fresh food cooking”. Then she set up the website below to get people’s attention to healthy eating. She is excited to share her knowledge through cooking chooses, cookbooks and DVDs. Her teaching is popular with people from different countries. Learn More: Visit WWW.freshfoodcooking.com Follow Suzzane on FACEBOOK and TWTTER.
The cooking class in advertisement will be given______.
| A．In spring | B．in summer |
| C．in autumn | D．in winter |
In this class ,you can watch Suzzane cook dishes with the foods______.
| A．brought from home | B．picked in Trinity Garden |
| C．bought from the market | D．onbooked from the Internet |
The menu offered by the cooking class including the following EXCEPT______.
| A．cake | B．soup | C．Salad | D．ice-cream |
If Mr.Green goes to the class with his parents and his 6-year-old son, be should pay____.
| A．$35 | B．$70 | C．$105 | D．$140 |
According to the advertisement, we know that__________.
| A．we can book the cooking class on the phone |
| B．only American Indians enjoy Suzzane’s teaching |
| C．Suzzane got her cooking ideas from different DVDs |
| D．Suzzane Landry wrote two books about eating and food |
It is true that people with better education are usually able to get better paying jobs. In other words, they have more chances to choose a good job while people with little or no education don’t. It seems that the purpose of education is to make people get jobs. But this isn’t accepted by all people.
Some people may think that a person should spend the best years of his life to get education only for a way of living. This was probably one of the earliest reasons of education. In fact, if education is just a way of making a living, people don’t need to spend so much time in school. People can get education for a living in a short time. Subjects like history and geography need not be taught to everyone. Even language and mathematics need not be taught in detail (详细地)，either. Here it is clear that education is much more than teaching a man to get a way of living.
Education is well-rounded and it is mainly for improving a man. It is not only to teach him to speak, read and write, but also to develop his creative thinking and other abilities. After that, it is to make him a wise man and thankfully enjoy the achievements of human. Education is to make a man lead a better life. Educated people are expected to be able to listen to good music, read good books, watch plays and most of all take an interest in the world.
I would agree that making a good living is an important reason for education, but certainly not the most important or the main reason. People with little education usually _______.
| A．spend a long time in school |
| B．have a good chance to get a job |
| C．spend the best years choose jobs |
| D．have fewer chances to get a good job |
The earliest education was probably to __________.
| A．make a man lead a better life |
| B．teach a man to write and think |
| C．make people get a way of living |
| D．teach people to read good books |
The underlined word “well-rounded” in the passage means “ _______” in Chinese.
| A．圆满的 | B．崭新的 |
| C．公平的 | D．全面的 |
It is expected that educated people will be able to _________.
| A．accept education as a way of living |
| B．take an interest in the whole world |
| C．develop their abilities to make plays |
| D．learn subjects like language and math |
The passage mainly tells us that _________.
| A．education should make a man improve |
| B．people can get education in a short time |
| C．people should be able to get better paying jobs |
| D．all subjects are so important for a way of living |
NOTICE （Monday）
| DIRECTIONS ● Each student will be on a team of three classmates. ● The team’s task is to work together on a storybook project. ● Each team will choose a favourite storybook. ● One student will be picked to dress the storybook covers. ● The other two students will dress like characters in the storybook. ______ ● Cut two large pieces of cardboard(硬纸板). They will be used as the front and back covers of the storybook. ● Paint one side of each cardboard yellow or blue. ● Paint the name of the storybook black and it should be in huge and clear letters. ● Make small holes in the top of each piece of cardboard. Use rope to tie the front and the back covers together. ATTENTION ● Bring the clothes and the storybook covers before eight o’clock on Friday morning. ● Get dressed before classes start. |
There will be ____ student(s) on one team.
| A．one | B．two | C．three | D．four |
Which of the following can be put in ___ ?
| A．HOW TO READ A GOOD STORYBOOK |
| B．HOW TO MAKE THE STORYBOOK COVERS. |
| C．HOW TO PAINT THE STORYBOOK COVERS. |
| D．HOW TO CHOOSE A FAVOURITE STORYBOOK. |
The name of the storybook should be painted ____.
| A．blue | B．white | C．yellow | D．black |
When will be storybook project be examined?
| A．On Monday morning. | B．On Thursday evening. |
| C．On Friday morning | D．On Sunday afternoon |
Where can you most probably find the notice?
| A．In the classroom |
| B．In the school dining room. |
| C．In the teachers’ office. |
| D．In the school playground. |
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