Languages are remarkably complex and wonderfully complicated organs of culture. They contain the quickest and the most efficient means of communicating within their respective culture. To learn a foreign language is to learn another culture. In the words of a poet and philosopher, "As many languages as one speaks, so many lives one lives. " A culture and its language are as necessary as brain and body: while one is a part of the other, neither can function without the other. In learning a foreign language, the best beginning would be starting with the non—language elements of the language: its gestures, its body language, etc. Eye contact is extremely important in English. Direct eye contact leads to understanding, or, as the English saying goes, seeing eye-to-eye. We can never see eye-to-eye with a native speaker of English until we have learned to look directly into his eyes.
　　11. The best title for this passage is_________.
　　A Organs of Culture
　　B Brain and Body
　　C Looking into his eyes
　　D Language and Culture
　　答案:D
　　本题考查的是考生对全文主旨的把握，此题要求选择题目(title)。一般来讲，题目要求简单精炼，能概括文章主题或中心(subject／theme)。英文文章讲求逻辑性，一般一段文字由主题句(topic sentence)和支撑句(supporting sentences)构成，且主题句多在段首。这段文字即为如此(又如Passage 2)：首句是主题句，概述语言和文化的关系，接下来的几句具体论述。从In learning起，基于语言和文化的关系谈论如何学好外语。因此选D。
　　12. According to this passage, the best way to learn a foreign language is
　　A to read the works of poets and philosophers_________.
　　B to find a native speaker and look directly into his eyes
　　C to begin by learning its body language
　　D to visit a country where you can study
　　答案:C
　　本题考查的也是考生对具体细节的理解。此类题要求回溯原文，答案对应文章的第六句话：In learning a foreign language，the best beginning would be starting with the non-language elements of the language：its gestures，its body language，etc．从这句中得出答案C。
　　13. According to this passage, gestures are_________.
　　A spoken words
　　B a non-language element
　　C pictures in a language
　　D written language
　　答案:B
　　本题考查的也是考生对具体细节的理解。选B，理由同上。
　　14. As many languages as one speaks, so many lives means_________.
　　A if one learns many foreign languages, one will have a better understanding of his own language
　　B life is richer and more interesting if one knows several languages
　　C no matter how many languages one knows, one can never know more than one’s own culture
　　D if a person speaks only one language, he will live a very happy life
　　答案:B
　　本题考查的也是考生对具体句子的理解。所谓“词不离句，句不离段，段不离篇”，因此要理解一句话的意思，就要把它放回原文，在上下文的语境中理解。这段文字论述语言和文化的关系，这句话的前后两句都在论述语言和文化的紧密联系，因此这句话就是在说：如果一个人懂多种语言，那他就了解了多种文化，生活就变得丰富多彩起来。另外也可从排除法的角度看。从常识排除C、D。A／B中再根据以上分析做答。
　　15. Which of the following doesn’t share the same meaning with the others?
　　A signs
　　B gestures
　　C efficient
　　D body language
　　答案:C
　　本题考查的也是考生对具体细节的理解及常识的把握。答案对应倒数第三句话，由此可判断B／D属non-language elements；常识判断A也是。因此选C。

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