12.阅读短文, 从方框中选择合适的单词填空, 注意有的单词需要词形变化.
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In schools all over the world, many boys and girls are learning foreign languages.
(1)
knows his own language, but to know another is very useful. How many languages are there in the world?There are about several thousand. (2)
is one of them. What is the best way to (3)
a language? We should remember how we all learned our own language when we were children. (4)
we could learn a second language in the same way, it would not seem so difficult. Think of what a small (5)
does. He (6)
to what people say, and he tries to copy what he hears. When he wants something, he has to ask (7)
it. He is using the language, (8)
in it, thinking in it all the time. If a language is used all the time, it will soon be learned.
It is important to remember, also, that we learn our own language by listening to people speaking it, not by looking at what they write. We copy what we hear. In school, though you learn to read and write as well as to hear and speak, it is best to learn all new words through the (9)
. You can read them, speak them and (10)
them later.