2012广州二模英语试题WORD版及答案
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内容提要：广东省广州市2012届高三毕业班4月综合测试（二）英 语
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During lectures, my students often ask which is the most difficult language to learn. It's not easy to answer because there are many factors to take into consideration. For a person's first language these factors are unimportant because people learn their mother tongue naturally. So the question of how hard a language is to learn is only relevant when learning a second language.
Studies have shown that native speakers of Spanish find Portuguese much easier to learn than, say, native speakers of Chinese, because Portuguese is very similar to Spanish, while Chinese is very different. So a person's first language affects their learning of a second language. The greater the differences between a second language and the first, the harder it will be for most people to learn. Many Westerners think that Chinese is the hardest language to learn because of its writing system and pronunciation. But for Japanese speakers, who already use Chinese characters in their own language, learning writing is less difficult than for speakers of languages using the Roman alphabet.
A recent study reported that British embassy staff found that the second hardest language to learn was Japanese. More surprising was the language that they found most problematic — Hungarian. In this case the issue was not the writing system (as both English and Hungarian use a similar alphabet) but grammatical complexity. Hungarian has 35 cases (forms of a noun according to whether it is subject, object, genitive, etc. ) and it was this that caused the British diplomatic personnel most difficulty. One suspects they would have even more problems with Tabassaran, a Caucasian language with 48 cases, if they ever had to learn it.
Teachers and the circumstances in which a language is learned also play important roles，as does each learner's motivation for learning. If people learn a language because they need to use it professionally, they often learn it faster than people studying a language that has no direct use in their day-to-day life.
Put simply，no language is easy Io learn well，though languages which are related to our first language are easier. Learning a completely different writing system is a huge challenge, but that does not necessarily make a language more difficult than another. In the end, it is impossible to say that there is one language that is the most difficult language in the world.
41. According to the passage, who is likely to have the most difficulty learning a new language?
A. A Korean person learning French. B. A Spanish person learning Portuguese.
C. A German person learning English. D. A Chinese person learning Japanese.
42. Which language do British embassy staff find most difficult to learn? .
A. Japanese. B. Caucasian. C. Hungarian. D. Tabassaran.
43. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a factor affecting language learning?
A. The amount of time spent studying the new language.
B. The environment in which language learning takes place.
C. The reasons a person has for learning the new language.
D. The similarity between a person's first language and the new language.
44. Why does the author believe there's no single hardest language?
A. All languages are equally difficult to learn well.
B. With enough effort, any language can be learned well.
C. There is not enough evidence to make any final conclusion.
D. People's background and learning situations determine which language is hardest.
45. The writer is probably_____.
A. a language learner B. a language teacher
C. a newspaper journalist D. an embassy official
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