His inability to learn foreign languages was a（n（）to his career.

His inability to learn foreign languages was a(n) obstacle to his career.

A．barrier

B．excess

C．carder

D．impulse

His inability to learn foreign languages was a(n) obstacle to his career.

A．barrier

B．excess

C．carrier

D．impulse

His inability to learn foreign languages was an ______ to his career, he felt very affliction.

A．occurrence

B．obstacle

C．disturbance

D．shortage

—The book isn't easy for Jack to understand, is it?—______. His foreign language is far better than expected.

A．No, it isn't

B．I'm afraid not

C．I don't think so

D．Yes, it is

听力原文： Some people give up trying to learn a foreign language. It can seem too much like hard work. But the problem comes when they go abroad on holiday and find they cannot communicate. How do they ask the way, order a cup of coffee, ask the price of something? There are, certainly, a lot of phrase books designed to help these people continue to live. In the phrase book they find all the right questions and some of the answers, too. But then, the problem is to be able to pronounce the phrases. If you don't know French, Italian or English, how can you read out the right question in an accent that someone will understand ? The printed work is not enough.

Keith Chidwich thinks he has the answer to this problem," I have got a phrase book which talks in different languages. I feel that I can go to any country in the world and tall with any foreigner. "he says. Keith is an inventor. His invention is an electronic device which produces phrases in four different languages: French, German, Italian and English. Unlike the phrase book, this device has a voice. It looks like a tape recorder.

What is a phrase book designed for?

A．Learning a foreign language.

B．Finding a job to continue to live.

C．Communicating with foreigners.

D．Making their work less hard.

听力原文： Some people give up trying to learn a foreign language. It can seem too much like hard work. But the problem comes when they go abroad on holiday and find they cannot communicate. How do they ask the way, order a cup of coffee, ask the price of something? There are, certainly, a lot of phrase books designed to help these people continue to live. In the phrase books they find all the right questions and some of the answers, too. But then, the problem is to be able to pronounce the phrases. If you don't know French, Italian or English, how can you read out the right question in an accent that someone will understand? The printed work is not enough.

Keith Chidwich thinks he has the answer to this problem, "I have got a phrase book which talks in different languages. I feel that I can go to any country in the world and talk with any foreigner. "he says. Keith is an inventor. His invention is an electronic device which produces phrases in four different languages: French, German, Italian and English. Unlike the phrase book, this device has a voice. It looks like a tape recorder.

What is a phrase book designed for?

A．Learning a foreign language.

B．Finding a job to continue to live.

C．Communicating with foreigners.

D．Making their work less hard.

Which of the following is right?

A．We don't need to learn any foreign languages.

B．We can do well in all our work without English.

C．We should learn English because we need to face the world.

Let children learn to judge their own work. A child learning to talk does not learn by being corrected all the time: if corrected too much, he will stop talking. He notices a thou-sand times a day the difference between the language he uses and the language those around him use. Bit by bit, he makes the necessary changes to make his language like other people's. In the same way, children learn to do all the other things without being taught-to walk, run, climb, whistle, ride a bicycle-compare their own performances with those of more skilled people, and slowly make the needed changes. But in school we never give a child a chance to find out his mistakes and correct them for himself. We do it all for him. We act as if we thought that he would never notice a mistake unless it was pointed out to him, or correct it unless he was made to. Let him work out, with the help of other children if he wants it, what his word says, what the answer is to that problem, whether this is a good way of saying or doing this or not.

If it is a matter of right answers, as it may be in mathematics or science, give him the answer book. Let him correct his own papers. Why should we teachers waste time on such routine work? Our job should be to help the child when he tells that he can't find the way to get the right answer. Let the children learn what all educated persons must someday learn, how to measure their own understanding, how to know what they know or do not know.

According to the passage, the best way for children to learn things is by ______.

A．asking older people many questions

B．listening to skilled people's advice

C．making mistakes and correcting them

D．doing what other people do

The father also asked his sister to teach his daughter how to learn English.

A．Right.

B．Wrong.

C．Doesn't say.

Some people give up trying to learn a foreign language. It can seem too much like hard work. But the problem comes when they go abroad on holidays and find they cannot communicate. How do they ask the way, order a cup of coffee, or ask the price of something?

Keith Chiwick thinks he has the answer to this problem. " I have got a machine which talks in different languages. I feel that I could go to any country in the world and converse with any foreigner," he says. Keith is an inventor. His invention is an electronic machine which produces phrases in four different languages, French, German, Italian and English. Unlike the phrase books, this machine has a voice. It looks like a cassette recorder.

Imagine you want to say, "What time is the next train for Munich?" in German. First, you find the right card for that question. Each card has four strips of tape on it, one for each language. The cards are small, seven by nine centimeters, and each one can store up to two hundred and forty words. You run a pickup head along the tape and— hey presto! —A voice comes out of the amplifier, asking the question. The person at the information desk may get a surprise, but you will get your answer'

Keith hopes that an electronics company will buy his idea and develop it commercially to sell it to tourists. Meanwhile, he' s working on more new ideas. "It' s just a hobby for me. Some people like playing golf or bingo, but I like making new things" , he said.

Why do some people give up trying to learn a foreign language?

A．Because they can use Keith' s machine now.

B．Because it is like hard work.

C．Because they have difficulties to go abroad.

D．Because they cannot communicate with foreigners.