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Unit 3 Topic 3 阅读写作综合
一、完形填空。
Karl Marx was born in Germany on May 5th, 1818. 1 he was a child, he was forced to leave his country again and again. His mother tongue was German and at school he learned French and English, but his English was poor. He began to work hard 2 it. He made 3 much progress that he could soon read English materials.
However, English grammar and idioms(习语) were too 4 for him. He often 5 himself by saying “If I keep on trying, I’ll make even greater progress.”
In one of Marx’s books, he gave people some 6 on how to learn a foreign language well. He said a person should translate every word he heard into the 7 language he was learning. If anyone could do this, it would be 8 for them to use the language freely.
In April, 1841, Marx 9 his doctor’s degree(博士学位). After that, he began to write articles for a newspaper. During the 1840s, Marx wrote many important books, and many of them are quite 10 in human history.
1.A. When B. Before C. Because
2. A. on B. at C. in
3. A. so B. such C. too
4. A. common B. difficult C. strict
5. A. encouraged B. required C. protected
6. A. rules B. money C. advice
7. A. first B. foreign C. native
8. A. suitable B. impossible C. possible
9. A. accepted B. received C. created
10. A. harmful B. useful C. useless
二、句子还原。
In schools all over the world, boys and girls are learning foreign languages. Everybody knows his own language, but it’s also important to master a foreign language, especially when we travel to other countries. 1 And in Germany, people will expect us to understand German.
How many languages are there in the world? There are about fifteen hundred, but many of them are not very important. English is one of the most important because so many people use it, not only in Britain and the USA, but in other parts of the world. About 200,000,000 people speak it as their own language, and another 200,000,000 use