[单项选择]

Japanese Language Today

If you want proof that the Japanese language is in decline, just Watch a few parliamentary debates and press conferences on Japanese TV. You won’t see politicians talking about what can be done to improve language skills among the country’s youth. Rather, you’ll see government officials misusing their own language.
Recently Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi(小泉纯一郎) called himself a person lacking vocabulay. It seems he’s governing a nation of such people. Last May a group of university deans announced the results of a survey showing that a majority of Japanese college students have difficulty expressing themselves fully and clearly in their own language. Throughout Japan, ling juistic skills have been in a downward spiral for at least a decade. Young people who read less and watch more TV than ever before regularly stumble over old proverbs, miss the subtleties of polite expressions and even mistake one written chara
A. Right
B. Wrong
C. Not mentioned

[单项选择]
If you want proof that the Japanese language is in decline, just Watch a few parliamentary debates and press conferences on Japanese TV. You won’t see politicians talking about what can be done to improve language skills among the country’s youth. Rather, you’ll see government officials misusing their own language.
Recently Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi(小泉纯一郎) called himself a person lacking vocabulay. It seems he’s governing a nation of such people. Last May a group of university deans announced the results of a survey showing that a majority of Japanese college students have difficulty expressing themselves fully and clearly in their own language. Throughout Japan, ling juistic skills have been in a downward spiral for at least a decade. Young people who read less and watch more TV than ever before regularly stumble over old proverbs, miss the subtleties of polite expressions and even mistake one written chara
A. Right
B. Wrong
C. Not mentioned

[填空题] Today I want to help you with a study reading method known as SQ3R. The letters stand for five steps in the reading (36) ________: Survey, Question, Read, Review, Recite. Each of the steps should be done carefully and in the order mentioned. In all study reading, a survey should be the first step. Survey means to look quickly. In study reading, you need to look quickly at titles, words in darker or larger print, words with (37) ________ letters, (38) ________ and charts. Don’’t stop to read complete sentences. Just look at the important (39) ________ of the materials. The second step is question. Try to form questions based on your survey. Use the question words who, what, when, where, why and how. Now you are ready for the third step. Read. You will be reading the (40) ________ and important words that you looked at in the (41) ________, but this time you will read the examples and (42) ________ as well. Sometimes it is useful to take notes while you read. I have ha