【正文】 writing English but poor at speaking English?13. Why are so many Chinese students afraid to speak to native speakers?14. How can we speak English well?15. What does the phrase get rid of mean in the talk?Key: 12. F 13. F 14. T 15. FTask 2 Passage one Imagine you are a doctor of medicine from Japan. You are at an international meeting in Europe. You want to municate with a doctor from Africa. What language do you speak with him? The answer is probably English.Today, nearly 600 million people around the world use the English language. Only half of them speak English as their first language. Why is English useful for international munication? For one thing, many books and papers in special fields are in English. As a result, people with great knowledge in these special fields often learn English. Such people from different countries can use their English for international munication. English is really a world language.Key: 1. C 2. A Passage two Many people go to school for an education. They learn languages, history, political methods, geography, physics, chemistry and mathematics. Others go to school to learn skills in order to make a living. Traditional education is very useful and important. Yet, no one can learn everything from school. A teacher, no matter how much he knows, cannot teach his students everything they want to know. The teacher39。 4. jeans。s goals and achieving happiness in one39。s always negative and finding fault. I mustn39。t know anything. But that doesn39。t I do what I like? It39。s worded about leaving her husband alone by himself.Ann Ramos is eighty and lives with her daughter, who is sixty. Her daughter says that she needs a break. Mom follows me everywhere. She follows me from room to room when I clean. She sits down next to me when I read the newspaper. She even follows me out of the house when I take out the refuse. I need a break and she does, too. And so, several times a week, David and Ann39。s acting badly, she/he needs love and attention, not anger and violence.KEY: 6. D 7. A 8. A 9. D 10. C Passage three When my father died, my mother insisted on living by herself. I wanted her to marry again, but she said she wanted to be free. But she didn39。t grown up yet.8. My father worked in an office building on top of a subway station in Manhattan.9. Please see to it that the patient takes the medicine three times a day.10. He went to see films on occasion.Key: 1. (A) 2. (B) 3. (A) 4. (B) 5. (A) 6. (B) 7. (B) 8. (A) 9. (B) 10. (B)Task2: 1. Mary had a good time staying with her parents over the weekend.2. He has a good heart and always helps others.3. A heated discussion broke out in the classroom between the children.4. She clung to the rail along the edge of the stairs as she walked down the icy steps.5. He started out for work an hour ago.6. He held onto the rail to keep his balance.7. Dan broke his leg during basketball practice。m looking forward to walking to school like other children some day.Questions 1 to 5 are based on the passage you have just heard.1. What did her parents do when the speaker reached the age for starting school?2. How did the speaker manage to go to school after all?3. How far is it from the speaker39。s because he39。t walk. When I reached the age for starting school, I saw all the other children going and I wanted to go, too. My parents just shook their heads when I asked them. My grandmother tried to fort me, but tears fell down her cheeks. A few days later, the headmaster of the school and Mrs. Wen came to our house. They said they would carry me to school every day. Early the next morning Mrs. Wen came and carded me on her back for half a kilometer to school. From then on she carried me to school and home every day. One morning there was a big rainstorm. The rain poured down and the wind was so strong that it nearly blew the trees down. I was just thinking that surely the teacher would not e when the door opened and in came both she and the headmaster. They carried me to school as usual. Last year an article about me appeared in the newspaper. Not long after that I received a letter addressed to me. It was from a doctor who had read about me in the paper. He is an old doctor in his 70s. He wanted to try to cure my illness. He studied my case carefully and decided he knew a medicine that could help me. After taking it for six months, I39。t make it to New York because of the heavy snow.3. He didn39。 hitting isn39。s friendly and likes to talk. He lives with his wife in a small flat in the city. But David is being forgetful. His wife says, He39。t you helping your mother? He thinks I39。t wear make－up. Existing beauty is best. Sometimes he disturbs my homework. When I was young we used to do maths differently, he says. Honestly, he39。t dare admit it: it was not done. On the other hand, while Mom and Dad were going without things, they expected their children to obey the rules of nice manners, and to grow up into adults that make parents proud. These were the very ideas against which the young rebels of the 1960s rebelled.Questions 1 to 5 are based on the passage you have just heard.1. According to the passage, what did children think of their parents?2. What was true success according to young people?3. What did most parents learn to do when they were young?4. What did parents think was their first duty?5. What did parents expect their children to be?Key: 1. T 2. F 3. F 4. T 5. TPassage two My grandfather lives with us and he39。t go far enough in trying to stop young people from smoking. 8. She bolted to the phone to ring for an ambulance. 9. It39。 2. disgusting。t foreign language learners worry too much about making mistakes?10. What does the speaker say about the use of mistakes in foreign language learning?Key: 6. F 7. T 8. T 9. F 10. FPassage three Many Chinese students have studied English for more than ten years. However, they are still una