For most students, the time of exams is very stressful and difficult. Some people find exam time so bad that they become ill, because they are afraid of failing, they are afraid of letting their parents down. If exams are really making you ill or worried, don’t hide your feelings. Talk to someone about it. If one person doesn’t help you, ask someone else.

How to get through exams? Here are some top tips by educational psychologists（教育心理学家）

Ask a teacher about how to review, and exam skills – how to work when you are in an exam.

Take short rests during your time of work. If your mind is tired, it will not remember well.

Plan your work: review at times when you know you will work at your best.

Get enough sleep, and eat healthy food.

If you feel ill, talk to someone about your worries. But don’t be too relaxed! Some stress over exams makes you work hard for them.

If it makes you upset to talk to your friends about an exam when it is finished, don’t do it! In fact, don’t even think about the exam you have finished. What is done is done. You cannot change what you have written!

If you are studying in the evening, don’t go straight to bed after that. Your mind will still be “going round and round” – thinking too much. Do something else, maybe walk or get exercise. Choose something that will relax you, and make you think of other things.

1. Some people find exam time so bad that _________.

  A. they are afraid of failing              B. they become ill

  C. they think too much about it           D. they hide their feelings

2. If you get tired during your time of work, you should _________.

  A. talk to someone about your worries      B. ask a teacher about it

  C. plan your work                      D. take a short rest

3. If you want to get to sleep quickly after studying in the night, you can ______.

  A. do something else to relax yourself      B. go to bed as soon as you can    

C. eat some healthy food                 D. let your parents down

4. The writer thinks if we get too relaxed, ________.

A. our mind won’t remember well         B. we won’t work hard for the exams

C. we will think too much               D. change what we have done

5. From the passage, we know that _________.

 A. it’s useful to talk about exams after having finished it

 B. it’s necessary to plan our work well

 C. we should sleep less and eat more   

D. if we feel ill, don’t tell others

Is learning a foreign language ever easy? Yes. If you are five and move to another country, you will quickly pick up the language. But what about for the rest of us who are no longer five, and need to be polite when traveling for business or for pleasure? I think that answer is also yes. Language learning can be easy if you don’t want or need to learn too much.

The key to successful language learning in my mind is not to set the goal too high. It is rather like running. Even if you run twice a week, you don’t necessarily want to be able to run a marathon (马拉松). You might just want to keep a level of fitness. I think the same can be true for language learning.

Let’s get back to the goal. If you decide to learn ten words in a foreign language before visiting the country, you know that you will be sure to do this. However, if you decide to talk to people with great fluency (流利), unless you are quite a talented person, you will probably fail and give up in half-way.

It is also far easier to start learning a foreign language than to finish. In other words, the better you are, the slower it can be to improve, because you will not be able to move further because of grammar, making sentences, learning less common words, etc. If you are only trying to learn a few foreign words and sentences, you will enjoy faster progress, have more fun, and won’t have to spend too much time.

The idea of learning only a few hundred words in a language, and then stopping, isn’t the usual way to language learning, but it can be a very meaningful and enjoyable activity.

1.In the writer’s opinion, it is easy for adults to learn English if _______.

A．they are especially talented people

B．they don’t want or need to learn too much

C．they have to spend a lot of time on it

D．they have a chance to go abroad

2.The writer believes that if you want to be good at a foreign language, you will probably _______.

A．forget your own goals

B．become a talented language learner

C．get tired of learning it

D．reach your learning goal

3.The best title of this passage would be _______.

A．Easy Language Learning                   B．Hard Language Learning

C．Fluency in a Foreign Language              D．A way of Language Learning