Is learning a foreign language ever easy? Yes. If you are five and move to another country, you will quickly pick up the language. But what about for the rest of us who are no longer five, and need to be polite when traveling for business or for pleasure? I think that answer is also yes. Language learning can be easy if you don’t want or need to learn too much.
The key to successful language learning in my mind is not to set the goal too high. It is rather like running. Even if you run twice a week, you don’t necessarily want to be able to run a marathon (馬拉松). You might just want to keep a level of fitness. I think the same can be true for language learning.
Let’s get back to the goal. If you decide to learn ten words in a foreign language before visiting the country, you know that you will be sure to do this. However, if you decide to talk to people with great fluency (流利), unless you are quite a talented person, you will probably fail and give up in half-way.
It is also far easier to start learning a foreign language than to finish. In other words, the better you are, the slower it can be to improve, because you will not be able to move further because of grammar, making sentences, learning less common words, etc. If you are only trying to learn a few foreign words and sentences, you will enjoy faster progress, have more fun, and won’t have to spend too much time.
The idea of learning only a few hundred words in a language, and then stopping, isn’t the usual way to language learning, but it can be a very meaningful and enjoyable activity.
小題1:In the writer’s opinion, it is easy for adults to learn English if _______.
A．they are especially talented people
B．they don’t want or need to learn too much
C．they have to spend a lot of time on it
D．they have a chance to go abroad
小題2:The writer believes that if you want to be good at a foreign language, you will probably _______.
A．forget your own goals
B．become a talented language learner
C．get tired of learning it
D．reach your learning goal
小題3:The best title of this passage would be _______.
A．Easy Language Learning B．Hard Language Learning
C．Fluency in a Foreign Language D．A way of Language Learning

小題1:B
小題2:C
小題3:A

試題分析：本文主要講述了學習一門外語是一件很容易的事情，并重點論述了其原因。
小題1:根據(jù) Language learning can be easy if you don’t want or need to learn too much. 可知，成年人學英語如果不需要學太多，也是比較容易的。所以本題選B。
小題2:根據(jù)unless you are quite a talented person, you will probably fail and give up in half-way. 可知，要想熟練運用一門外語，除非你是天才，否則可能會失敗或中途放棄。所以本題選C。
小題3:通過閱讀全文可知，本文主要講述了學習一門外語是很容易的事，所以本題選A。
點評：本文的意思不是很好理解，需要反復閱讀，了解全文大意。本題的小題需要根據(jù)文章的意思進行判斷，在文中不能找到直接的答案，這都需要進行推測。另外要注意文章出現(xiàn)的合成詞，對理解文章的意思也很有幫助。
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