A．singing is the best way to learn a language

　　B．the brain probably works best when the foreign language learners sing the words

　　C．a listen­repeat method is very effective for any language learner

　　D．Dr. Katie Overy and Dr. Ludke disagree with each other

　　4．In which situation can the finding of the research be applied?

　　A．A mother is going to teach her baby how to speak.

　　B．A child is going to have his first music lesson.

　　C．A student is going to learn a new English song.

　　D．An American is going to learn some Chinese.

　　答案与解析

　　本文讲述的是一项关于音乐和外语学习之间关系的研究。

　　1．C　细节理解题。本文开头通过举例导入话题，人们都清楚地记得儿时唱歌的歌词是因为音乐有助于记忆，故选C。

　　2．A　细节理解题。根据文章第五段"It does not share any roots with Germanic or Romance languages, such as Italian or Spanish."可知A项正确。故选A。

　　3．B　细节理解题。根据最后两段对研究的具体描述可知B项正确。故选B。

　　4．D　推理判断题。从最后一段可知，此项研究对于外语学习者非常有用，可知D项正确。故选D。

　　Ⅱ.七选五

　　(2017·福建省三明市月考)

　　The guy who tried to edit English

　　The English vocabulary is not only huge, it is also full of words that mean practically the same thing. Get, obtain, acquire. Shine, gleam, glow, sparkle. __1__

　　That was the thinking of a British writer named C．K. Ogden, who in the 1930s promoted a new form of English with a vocabulary of just 850 words. He called the project Basic English. __2__

　　Ogden arrived at his 850­word list through experimentation. The words he finally included were not necessarily the shortest or most concrete. __3__Because any verbal (动词的) idea could be expressed with a small number of "operators"- words like come, go, take, have, make, be and do - Ogden argued that most verbs were unnecessary. In Basic English, eat is "have a meal" and forget is "go from memory."

Winston Churchill was a fan of the concept as a way to get foreigners to speak English, and he encouraged the BBC to use it.__4__ Roosevelt, who expressed mild interest, joked that Churchill's famous speech about offering his "blood, toil, tears and sweat" to his country wouldn't have been so exciting if he "had been able to offer the British people only blood, work, eye water and face water, which I understand is the best that Basic English can do with five famous words."