阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Obtaining good health insurance while you are studying overseas is a real necessity to protect you from minor and catastrophic medical expenses that can wipe out not only your savings, but your dreams of an  1abroad.

There are often two different types of health insurance you can consider buying: international travel insurance and student insurance in the country where you will be   2. An international travel insurance policy is usually   3in your home country before you go abroad. It generally covers a wide variety of medical services, and you are often given a list of   4in the area where you will travel who may even speak your   5language. The   6might be that you aren’t reimbursed（赔偿）for your medical expenses immediately. In other words, you may have to pay all your medical expenses and then later submit your receipts to the insurance company.

On the other hand, getting student health insurance in the country where you will study might   7you to only pay a certain percentage of the medical cost at the time of service (commonly called a co-pay), and thus, you don’t have to have sufficient cash to pay the   8bill at once.

Whatever you decide, obtaining some form of health insurance is something you should plan

9you go overseas rather than waiting until you are sick   10major medical bills to pay off.

1.A．occupation       B．adventure      C．education      D．experience

2.A．living           B．going          C．coming         D．applying

3.A．made             B．received       C．adopted        D．purchased

4.A．services         B．agents         C．doctors        D．officials

5.A．mother           B．native         C．foreign        D．local

6.A．difficulty       B．benefit        C．advantage      D．drawback

7.A．encourage        B．enable         C．allow          D．require

8.A．remaining        B．separate       C．entire         D．rest

9.A．when             B．before         C．once           D．if

10.A．of              B．about          C．from           D．with

 

Have you ever noticed someone "talking" to them-selves? What did you think? The word "crazy" probably came to your mind. Wait a minute, though. Maybe they’re doing something meaningful.
Speaking practice can be effective in many different forms when people learn English or another foreign language. Imitating the speech of others is proven to be highly effective in developing a native speaker’s level of fluency in a language. Actually you’ve already proven that to your-self.
How? That’s how you learned your first language! Whether it was English, Spanish, French or some other language, you "imitated" your mother, father, other family members, friends, teachers and whoever else was around making "talking" noises at you as you formed your first communicative language skills.
So don’t think those who are talking to themselves are "crazy". At least don’t do so until you’ve tried it for your-self, in English or in your new foreign language.
As you go through your day, in English or your new foreign language, tell yourself what you’re doing at the moment and what you’re going to do during the day.
"Which of these shirts, ties, etc. should I wear today? Not this one, I wore it just last week. Maybe this one, but I don’t like this color with the pants. Let’s try another one," you might say as you are getting dressed.
If you live alone, you can talk aloud whenever you want without disturbing others. If you don’t live alone, however, then first explain to your family or roommates what you’ll be doing, to avoid a quiet phone call to the local psychiatrist (精神病学家).
【小题1】The author wrote the passage mainly to _______.

A．tell us how to talk to ourselves

B．introduce a method of learning a foreign language

C．tell us why some people talk to themselves

D．explain to us how we learned our native language

【小题2】What does the underlined word "it" in the fifth paragraph refer to?

A．The word "crazy".	B．A foreign language.
C．The skill of communicating.	D．The method of talking to oneself.

【小题3】From the passage we can know that ______.

A．people who talk to themselves are crazy

B．if you live alone, you should talk to yourself

C．you should tell yourself what you’re doing

D．we learned our native language by imitating

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从21—30各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Obtaining good health insurance while you are studying overseas is a real necessity to protect you from minor and catastrophic medical expenses that can wipe out not only your savings, but your dreams of an  21  abroad.

There are often two different types of health insurance you can consider buying: international travel insurance and student insurance in the country where you will be   22  . An international travel insurance policy is usually   23   in your home country before you go abroad. It generally covers a wide variety of medical services, and you are often given a list of   24   in the area where you will travel who may even speak your   25   language. The   26   might be that you aren’t reimbursed（赔偿）for your medical expenses immediately. In other words, you may have to pay all your medical expenses and then later submit your receipts to the insurance company.

On the other hand, getting student health insurance in the country where you will study might   27   you to only pay a certain percentage of the medical cost at the time of service (commonly called a co-pay), and thus, you don’t have to have sufficient cash to pay the   28   bill at once.

Whatever you decide, obtaining some form of health insurance is something you should plan

29  you go overseas rather than waiting until you are sick   30  major medical bills to pay off.

21．A．occupation       B．adventure  C．education  D．experience

22．A．living       B．going       C．coming     D．applying

23．A．made B．received    C．adopted    D．purchased

24．A．services    B．agents       C．doctors     D．officials

25．A．mother     B．native       C．foreign     D．local

26．A．difficulty  B．benefit      C．advantage D．drawback

27．A．encourage B．enable      C．allow D．require

28．A．remaining B．separate    C．entire       D．rest

29．A．when B．before      C．once  D．if

30．A．of     B．about C．from D．with

One of the main challenges facing many countries is how to maintain their identity in the face of globalization and the growing multi-language trend．“One of the main reasons for economic failure in many African countries is the fact that, with a few important exceptions, mother-tongue education is not practiced in any of the independent African states．" said Neville Alexander．Doctor of the Project for the Study of Alternative Education in South Africa at the  University of Cape Town．

In response to the spread of English and  the increased  multi-language trends arising from Immigration ．many countries have introduced language laws in the laws in the last decade ．In some ,the use  of languages other than the national language is banned in public spaces such as advertising  posters． One of the first such legal provisions was the  1994 " Toubon law' in France．but the idea has been copied in many countries since then．Such efforts to govern language use are often dismissed as futile by language experts ．who are well aware of the difficulty of controlling fashions in speech and know  from research  that language switching among bilinguals is a natural process．

It is especially difficult for native speakers of English to understand the desire to maintain the 'purity"  of a language by law． Since the time of Shakespeare ． English has continually absorbed foreign words into its own language．English is one of the most mixed and rapidly changing languages in the world．But the  has not been a barrier to acquiring prestige and power．Another reason for the failure of many native English speakers to understand the role of state regulation is that it bas never been the Anglo-Saxon way of doing things．English has never had a state-controlled authority for the language, similar, for example, to the Academie Francaise in France．

The need to protect national languages is, for most western Europeans, a recent phenomenon- especially the need to ensure that English does not unnecessarily take over too many fields．

Public communication, education and new modes of communication promoted by technology, may be key fields to defend．

61．Neville Alexander believes that          ．

      A．mother-tongue education is not practiced in all African countries

      B．lack of mother-tongue education can lead to economic failure

     C．globalization has led to  the rise of multi-language trends

     D．globalization has resulted in the economic failure of Africa

62． The underlined word " futile"   （in paragraph 2）  most probably means " _____" ．

     A．useless              B．practical              C．workable            D．necessary

63．Why do many English-speaking; countries not support the language protection efforts described  in the passage?

     A．They think language protection laws are ineffective．

     B．They want their language to spread to other countries．

     C．They have a long history of taking words from other languages．

     D．It reduces a language's ability to acquire international importance．

64．What can we infer from the last paragraph?

    A．English has taken over fields like public communication and education．

    B．Europeans have long realized the need to protect their national Languages．

    C．Most language experts believe it is important to promote a national language．

    D．Many aspects of national culture are threatened by the spread of English．

65．The best title for the passage is          ．

    A．Fighting against the rule of English

    B．Globalization and multi-language trends

    C．Protecting local languages and identities

    D．to maintain the purity of language by law