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Many Chinese students have studied English for more than ten years. However, they am still unable to speak English very well when they meet a native speaker. They seem to have mastered the basic language structure, but a conversation in English will make them feel uncomfortable. They are afraid that other people might find out their mistakes. It’s common that many students who are had speakers of English can write English perfectly. This proves that they are unable to think about their ideas in English. The key point of the problem is that they lack practice and positive belief in themselves. Why should you be afraid Do you fear those native speakers with whom you are speaking Don’t be shy! They will not laugh at you just for a little mistake you make. The best way to get rid of mistakes is to learn to speak by speaking more. I are sure that continual practice will help you succeed.
Is there any evidence that the standard of English as a foreign language has improved in the years since the Second World War Naturally, as it is the world language, more and more people are taught it and use it. But do they speak it or write it or understand it better than their parents’ or grandparents’ generations
Have standards declined There is no objective way of answering this question. Tests of the traditional sort--compositions, précis writing, and so on--have always been subjective, so they cannot be .used to judge whether people have got better or not over the years. But so-called objective tests are useless as a measure of progress too. They have not been used consistently in the same "concentration" over the period they have been in use, so there is no way of comparing exams "now" and "then". Moreover, usually in the form of multiple choice questions, they do not, by and large, test the things that really count
A. What’s the most objective way to test one’s English standards
B. How to improve the present low level of language learning
C. Why have the English standards declined
D. What are the benefits if Japanese people can learn English well
Productivity is the yardstick by which socioeconomic revolutions are measured. Plows initiated the agrarian revolution by greatly improving the productivity of farmers. Engines, and (1) electricity, (2) the industrial revolutions by (3) improving the productivity of workers in manufacturing and transportation. If there is to be a true in formation revolution, then computers will have to (4) the pattern with information and information work.
Information technology has (5) begun to improve productivity, and it has even hurt it in some cases; it takes longer to wade (6) those endless automated phone answering menus (7) it does to talk to a human operator. (8) , productivity will rise (9) computers and communications are used in the Informa-tion Marketplace to relieve people of brain work (10) industrial machinery relieved us of physical work.
The Information Marketplace will give (11) to tw
A. as much as
B. other than
C. so long as
D. rather than
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