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When students think of learning a foreign language, the first thought is of books, exercises, and audio
cassettes. Those are important to learning but sometimes a little bit boring. Therefore, it is time for us to
spice things up a bit.
Things like a cellphone can keep your interest level high. It's a perfect study material. You have it with
you day after day, you are familiar with how it works and you can use it to practice whenever you have time.
You don't need to have your books by your side or stay in your room to listen to tapes. Let's take a look at
how to add your cellphone to your study tools.
Set up your cellphone to use the language you want to study. Go to the menu, find settings, locate
language and change it to English or Spanish, which benefits your language learning.
Look at the buttons and connect those items with the new vocabulary. This enables you to master simple
words and phrases with little effort. For example, each time you open up your cellphone you'll see "messages",
"games" and "calls made". These words begin to take root if you see them again and again.
When you have time, take out your cellphone and start hitting buttons. You'll be surprised at all the
vocabulary you can learn by playing with the different menu items. Some things you'll recognize immediately
and others you can guess just by where you find them.
It can keep your learning fresh and interesting. And that's important because boredom is a big problem
with language learners. You need variety and a cellphone is one way to get it.
1. The underlined part "spice things up" in the first paragraph means "______".
A. make things interesting
B. make things realistic
C. make things helpful
D. make things obvious
2. Which of the following is NOT an advantage of using a cellphone as a study material?
A. We can study with it at any moment.
B. It keeps our learning interest high.
C. We can use it to practice freely.
D. It offers the chance to practice learning.
3. By playing with a cellphone, you can ______.
A. learn the words in the menu
B. remember the messages sent by others
C. improve the techniques of playing games
D. become familiar with different kinds of languages
4. Why did the author write the passage?
A. To stress the importance of language learning.
B. To introduce the latest ways of language learning.
C. To inform how to keep your learning fresh.
D. To explain how to use cellphones to learn language.
