Unit 5 Travelling Abroad reading课时作业

（一）完形填空

　　阅读下列短文，掌握其大意，然后从1-20各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出一个最佳选项。

　　There are about fifteen hundred languages in the world. But only a few of them are very 1 . English is one of these. Many, many people 2 it, not only in England and the U.S.A, but in other parts of the world. About 20 million speak it 3 their own language. It is difficult to say how many people are learning it as a 4 language. Many millions are 5 to do so.

　　Is it easy or difficult to learn English? Different people may have different 6 . Have you ever 7 such advertisement in the newspapers or magazines? "Learn English in six weeks, or your 8 back...." Of course, it never 9 quite like this.

　　The only language that seems easy to learn is the mother tongue. We should 10 that we all learned our own language well when we were 11 . If we could learn English in the same way, it would not seem so difficult. 12 what a small child does. He listens to what people say. He 13 what he hears. When he is using the language, talking in it, 14 in it all the time, just imagine how much 15 that gets!

　　So it is 16 to say that learning English is easy 17 a good command (掌握) of English depends on a lot of practice. And practice needs great effort and 18 much time. Good teachers, records, tapes, books, and dictionaries will 19 . But they can't do the student's 20 for him.

1. A.difficult B. important C. interesting D. easy

2. A.learn B. try C. understand D. use

3. A.as B. for C. with D. like

4. A.good B. foreign C. useful D. own

5. A.learning B. enjoying C. trying D. liking

6. A.questions B. problems C. ideas D. answers

7. A.found B. watched C. noticed D. known

8. A.knowledge B. time C. money D. English

9. A.happened B. looked C. seemed D. felt

10. A.know B. remember C. understand D. think