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I was fortunate enough to travel to South Africa,         I met some women who have organized themselves into a group.

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Next month, I’m traveling to a remote area of Central Africa and my aim is to know enough Lingala — one of the local languages — to have a conversation. I wasn’t sure how I was going to manage this — until I discovered a way to learn all the vocabulary I’m going to need. Thanks to Memrise, the app I’m using. It feels just like a game.

“People often stop learning things because they feel they’re not making progress or because it all feels like too much hard work,” says Ed Cooke, one of the people who created Memrise. “We’re trying to create a form of learning experience that is fun and is something you’d want to do instead of watching TV.”

Memrise gives you a few new words to learn and these are “seeds” which you plant in your “greenhouse”. When you practice the words, you “water your plants”. When the app believes that you have really remembered a word, it moves the word to your “garden”. And if you forget to log on, the app sends you emails that remind you to “water your plants”.

The app uses two principles about learning. The first is that people remember things better when they link them to a picture in their mind. Memrise translates words into your own language, but it also encourages you to use “mems”. For example, I memorized motele, the Lingala word for “engine”, using a mem I created — I imagined an old engine in a motel (汽车旅馆) room.

The second principle is that we need to stop after studying words and then repeat them again later, leaving time between study sessions. Memrise helps you with this, because it’s the kind of app you only use for five or ten minutes a day.

I’ve learnt hundreds of Lingala words with Memrise. I know this won’t make me a fluent speaker, but I hope I’ll be able to do more than just smile when I meet people in Congo. Now, I need to go and water my vocabulary!

1.What does Ed Cooke make an effort to do with Memrise?

A. Create memorable experiences.

B. Make progress with hard work.

C. Master languages through games.

D. Combine study with entertainment.

2.What do the underlined words “water your plants” in Paragraph 3 refer to?

A. Learning new words.　　 B. Being a Memrise user.

C. Logging on to the app.　　 D. Taking care of your garden.

3.How does Memrise work?

A. By linking different mems together.

B. By putting knowledge into practice.

C. By offering human translation services.

D. By applying an associative memory approach.

4.What is the author’s attitude towards Memrise?

A. Positive.　　 B. Doubtful.

C. Uncaring.　　 D. Disapproving.

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Next month, I’m traveling to a remote area of Central Africa and my aim is to know enough Lingala — one of the local languages — to have a conversation. I wasn’t sure how I was going to manage this — until I discovered a way to learn all the vocabulary I’m going to need. Thanks to Memrise, the application I’m using. It feels just like a game.

“People often stop learning things because they feel they’re not making progress or because it all feels like too much hard work,” says Ed Cooke, one of the people who created Memrise. “We’re trying to create a form of learning experience that is fun and is something you’d want to do instead of watching TV.”

Memrise gives you a few new words to learn and these are “seeds” which you plant in your “greenhouse”. When you learn the words, you “water your plants”. When the application believes that you’ve really memorized a word, it moves the word to your “garden”. And if you forget to log on, the application sends you emails, reminding you to “water your plants”.

The application uses two principles about learning. The first is that people memorize things better when they link them to a picture in their mind. Memrise translates words into your own language, but it also encourages you to use “mems”. For example, I memorized motele, the Lingala word for “engine”, using a mem I created — I imagined an old engine in a motel (汽车旅馆) room.

The second principle is that we need to stop after studying words and then repeat them again later, leaving time between study sessions. Memrise helps you with this, because it’s the kind of application you only use for five or ten minutes a day.

I’ve learnt hundreds of Lingala words with Memrise. I know this won’t make me a fluent speaker, but I hope I’ll be able to do more than just smile when I meet people in Congo. Now, I need to go and water my Vocabulary!

1.What does Ed Cooke make an effort to do with Memrise?

A. Create memorable experiences. B. Make progress with hard work.

C. Learning words instead of watching TV. D. Combine study with entertainment.

2.What are you doing when you “water your plants”?

A. Logging on to the application. B. Being a Memrise user.

C. Practising the vocabulary. D. Moving words to your garden.

3.How does Memrise work?

A. By linking different mems together. B. By putting knowledge into practice.

C. By offering human translation services. D. By applying an associative memory approach.

4.What is the author’s attitude towards Memrise?

A. Doubtful. B. Positive.

C. Uninterested. D. Negative.

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I went to a New York Mets fantasy camp in 1995, an incredible experience. I was fortunate to be on a team whose pitching coach was Mel Stottlemyre, the former Yankees star pitcher(投手) and Mets and Yankees coach. I was upset when Mel died of cancer on Jan. 13, 2018, at the age of 77.

He was warm, friendly and treated us as if we were major leagues. He asked me whether I would like to pitch and showed me how to throw a “two-seamer”, a fastball that tends to sink, as well as a straight four-seam fastball. I knew that pitching was not for me. At age 45, my experience in organizing baseball was limited to a couple of years in Little League in the Bronx, and softball games as an adult. Mel eventually left the Mets and became the pitching coach for the Yankees. I followed his career and knew about his diagnosis of multiple myeloma(骨髓瘤), a blood cancer, in April 2000, and a stem cell transplant.

In the summer of 2002, I was diagnosed as multiple myeloma and was told that I needed a stem-cell transplant by the same group of doctors at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center that had treated Mel.

This shocked me, and frankly, I became quite depressed. I vowed that somehow I would try to speak to Mel. One day, my phone rang. Mel was calling from the Yankee' locker room. I asked him to tell me everything about his treatment. He spent 30 minutes generously explaining all the details. I hung on every word. He told me how well he was feeling and ended the conversation by giving me his home phone number! "I feel great, and I'm not retiring," he told me.

This incredible experience lifted my spirits. Every time I saw Mel during games on TV as I awaited my transplant, I repeated to myself, "Look at Mel. If he can do it, so can I."

1.Why did the author say he was lucky in Paragraph 1?

A.He joined a famous team.

B.He met an unusual coach.

C.He was successfully cured.

D.He was chosen as a pitcher.

2.What do we know about the author?

A.He was not skilled in pitching.

B.He was a good baseball player.

C.He called Mel for his treatment.

D.He forgot what Mel had told him.

3.How old was Mel when he was diagnosed as multiple myeloma?

A.23. B.45.

C.59. D.6l.

4.What would be a suitable title for the text?

A.The Skills Taught by My Former Coach

B.The Transplant Given by the Same Doctors

C.My Baseball Team Helping Me Out

D.My Coach's Spirits Shining on Me

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---Let’s back up. Where was I?

---You ___________________about the trip to South Africa.

A．were talking       B．talked            C．are talking         D．would talk

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It was _____ he came bank from Africa that wear _________ he met the girl he would like to marry.

A. when; then    B. not; until    C. not until; that    D. only; when

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It was _____ he came bank from Africa that year _________ he met the girl he would like to marry.

A. when; then　　 　　　　　　 B. not; until

C. not until; that　 　　　 　 D. only; when

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It was ________ he came back from Africa that year ________ he met the girl he would like to marry.

A．when；then　                         B．not；until

C．not until；that                          D．only；when

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To my excitement, I met my favourit singer Jay Chou ________ while I was travelling in Singapore.

A. on purpose            B.by chance            C. as usual            D.in turn

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In some places, red indicates sadness, as in South Africa, _______ it is the color people wear when they mourn.

A. which　　　　 B. where　　　　 C. when　　　 D. what

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