Although many Chinese students say that their knowledge of English grammar is good ,most would admit that their spoken English is poor .Whenever I speak to a Chinese student they always say, “My spoken English is poor.” However ,their spoken English does not have to remain “poor” ! I would like to suggest that there may be some reasons for their problems with spoken English.

        First ,they fail to find suitable words to express themselves due to a limited vocabulary .Obviously the better answer is to expand their vocabulary. However ,you can speak with a limited vocabulary, if your attitude is positive .Others will follow you as long as you use the words that you know.

Second ,they are afraid of making mistakes. Sometimes they make mistakes when they are speaking because they are shy and nervous .Yet students should remember that their goal should be FLUENCY NOT ACCURACY. Your aim in writing is to be accurate following the rules for grammar and using the right words and spelling them correctly .However ,in speaking your aim is fluency. You want to get your message across ,to talk to someone in English ,as quickly and as well as you can ,even though sometimes you may use a wrong word or tense ,but it doesn’t matter because the person you are speaking to will understand you and make allowances for any mistakes he hears.

       The third reason is that not enough attention is paid to listening .You have one mouth but two ears! All that hearing was necessary for you to start speaking.

       Fourth ,most Chinese students are reactive rather than proactive language learners .Instead of actively seeking out opportunities to improve their spoken English they passively wait for speaking opportunities to come to them and wonder why their English always remains poor .If you have this proactive outlook ,then you will see English opportunities wherever you go.

       If you do not use your English beyond the classroom you will forget what English you know .Remember : USE IT OR LOSE IT! You can learn how to speak English better by speaking English more.

60.What is most probably the writer’s purpose in writing the passage?

A.To improve your reading.                  B.To improve your spoken English.

C.To improve your listening.                 D.To improve your vocabulary.

61.It can be inferred from the third paragraph that         .

A.don’t be afraid of making mistakes .Just speak!      B.don’t be nervous ,don’t be shy .Just write!

C.don’t be fluency .Just be accuracy                D.don’t be shy ,don’t be fluency. Just listen and write!

62.The text is most probably taken from a        .

A．teacher’s diary         B．report on study     C．sports newspaper             D．movie magazine

   Despite their name, the Want Family don’t want much. They want enough money for a nice house and a holiday every year. But they don’t want to be millionaires. They want to do well at their job. But they don’t want to be the big boss. They do want to spend time improving their garden, visiting their families and taking their two kids, Nicolas and Leuan, to Mc Donald’s for lunch. But they don’t want to be famous.

   The Wants just want to be normal. That’s why they are famous. They have been selected as the most normal family in Britain. After a six-month search for the most ordinary family in Britain, the Wants were selected from hundreds of applicants.

   John wants a job in marketing for a food company. Claire has a part-time job renting out children’s play equipment. John doesn’t understand why they were chosen to represent ordinary English families. How are they normal?

   That is not a bad question. Nearly everyone does some of the things that the Wants do. But very few people do all of them. There have been great changes in the social structure of British life. It is becoming more common for people to have children when they are older than the Wants, and to have one child instead of two. A household with two children may be headed by a single parent, usually the mother. Or perhaps dad and mum are still together, but not married. Or maybe dad and mum are married. Dad goes out to work and mum stays at home and looks after the kids. They have traditional values――Every weekend the whole family goes to church.

   “What we have here is not an average family, but a traditional family,” says Cary Cooper, professor of philosophy at Lancaster University. “There is no such thing as a normal family anymore, in the way there was 20 or 30 years age. Of course the Wants exist, but for what do we need to celebrate them?” Perhaps because we think normal families are an endangered species. Examples of them have to be preserved（保護）to show future generations.

56.The Wants were selected as the most normal family in Britain because__________.

   A. they represent traditional English families        B. they don’t want much

   C. they don’t want to be famous                  D. they want to be normal

57. The following statements describe the great changes in British life EXCEPT that_________.

A.people have kids later than 20 or 30 years ago    B. some children are brought up by a single parent

  C. most families go to church every weekend     D. it’s more common for families to have only one kind

58. We may infer from the passage that __________.

  A. most British families hold traditional values

  B. traditional families are becoming fewer and fewer

  C. future generations are expected to study traditional families

  D. traditional families no longer exist in Britain

59. What might be the most suitable title for this passage?

  A. An Ordinary Family                   B. Families of Future Generations

  C. Celebration of a Family Competition      D. A Normal But Special Family

One night recently, I was driving down a two-lane highway at about 60 miles an hour. A car approached from 36 direction at about the same speed. As we 37 each other,I caught the other driver’s eye for only a second. I wondered whether he might be thinking, as I was, how 38 we were on each other at that moment. I was relying on him not to 39, not to be put off by a phone conversation, not to cross over into my lane and bring my life to a sudden 40. Though we had never spoken a word to each other, he  41 me in just the same way.

    Multiplied a million times over, I believe that is the way the world  42 . At some 43 ,we all depend upon one another. Sometimes that dependence requires us 44 not to do something like crossing over the double yellow line.And sometimes it requires us to act  45 , with friends or even with  46 .

    As technology 47 our world, the need increases for cooperative action among nations. In 2003, doctor in five nations were quickly organized to identify the SARS virus,which 48 thousands of lives.The threat of international terrorism has shown itself to be a 49 problem, one requiring coordinated action by police and intelligence forces across the world. We must recognize that our fates are not ours 50 to control

    In my own life, I’ve put great stock in 51 responsibility.  52 , as the years have passed, I’ve also come to believe that there are moments when one must rely upon the good faith and judgment of 53.  54, while each of us faces the case of driving alone down a dark road, what we must learn is that the approaching light may not be a threat, but a shared moment of  55.

------Sorry to have hurt you

   ------- ­­ . You didn’t mean to, did you?

    A. Forget it                 B. No problem          C.All right       D. Don’t say so

Hearing the 2008 Olympic Games  ­­ , all the people in Beijing stadium burst into cheers.

    A.declared to be opened                B.declaring to be opened

    C.declared open                      D.to be declared open

----What do you think has caused the fearful hurricane in American?

-----       out too much warm gas

   A. People cut forest at will and let

   B. Because people cut forest at will and let

   C.When people cut forest at will and let

   D.People’s cutting forest at will and letting

----What do you think has caused the fearful hurricane in American?

-----  out too much warm gas

   A. People cut forest at will and let

   B. Because people cut forest at will and let

   C.When people cut forest at will and let

   D.People’s cutting forest at will and letting

The professor can hardly find sufficient grounds­­ his argument in favor of the theory.

   A. which to base on                       B. on which to base

   C. to base on which                       D. which to be based

Beijing was attacked by such a terrible sandstorm ­­ few residents had experienced before

   A. as        B. which             C. and it was           D. that