[填空题]The learning of a foreign language was viewed by the Direct Methodologists as ______ to the first language acquisition.

[单项选择]Learning a foreign language can be very frustrating, but it（）
A. pay back.
B. pay for.
C. pay up.
D. pay off.

[填空题]How did I feel about learning a foreign language For me, learning a foreign language was very______.

[填空题]While learning a foreign language ,. the greatest problem isn’ t vocabulary or grammar or pronunciation, but ______.

[单项选择]One new（）to learning a foreign language is to study the language in its cul tural context.
A. approach
B. solution
C. manner
D. road

[填空题]

[听力原文]11-15
Learning a foreign language is one of the most difficult yet most rewarding experiences for me. My experi- ence with English began in junior middle school. Because of a patient teacher and his positive method, .I was eager to study English and stayed at the top of my class. While in senior middle school, however, the method of my teacher made me lose the desire to say anythingin English. That state lasted until I went to college, where unlike the problem I came across in the senior middle school, my class was very large and some students spoke better than I did. So, once again, although for different reasons, I was afraid to speak and felt that my English would stay at the same level forever. Only when I took the online course did I come to reap the benefits from English learning.

How did I feel about learning a foreign language
For me, learning a foreign language was very（）

[填空题]The writer believes that learning a foreign language can help a person understand their own language better.

[单项选择]Which language aren’t they learning
A. Japanese. B. French. C. German.

[填空题]Foreign Exchange Trading
Without foreign exchange trading, international trade itself could not exist. In former times trade was based on bartering—goods were exchanged for other goods. The introduction of precious metals (i.e., gold and silver) to pay for goods can be considered the forerunner of the foreign exchange market. The Greeks and Romans commonly used gold as a medium of exchange. Most world trade continued to be based on gold until the nineteenth century. But then industrialization in Western Europe and the United States had boosted world trade to such an extent that gold reserver were no longer adequate to meet the requirements. Governments introduced a par value of their respective local currencies in gold. Thus, the currencies were related to one another through a system called the gold standard. The gold standard system determined the value of all currencies based on gold． (8) The system worked well until World War I, when trade was interrupted. After