As the summer time approaches, more and more commercials and advertisements can be seen on the mass media encouraging students to join English study tours abroad. The purpose of these tours is to provide students with an opportunity to learn English in a native speaking environment and use English in real situations. Parents always believe that their children will automatically speak good English after attending these study tours. However, for me, as an English major and former participant of many English study tours, I find these summer tours ineffective.
Parents who send their children abroad for a summer to study English usually believe that the native speaking environment, including the courses, teachers, and host families, can help their children to learn English better. This might be true if the students really study hard and they really get an all-English environment. But the fact is that, most of the time, the tour part is more important than the study part. Although these tours take place in foreign countries, students are rarely exposed in an all-English environment. You will find that, in the morning classes, Taiwanese students would like to stick together and speak Chinese with each other, even though there are some students from other countries. In the afternoon, the students go on a sightseeing excursion with their companions from Taiwan; they speak Chinese of course. In the evening, when students return to the host families, they would stay in their room and share the day with their roommate, another Taiwanese student. People who speak the same language with you is like a log（原木）in the ocean when living in a foreign country where you can not express yourself well, so that you would naturally stick with them. This is especially true with children.
Another unrealistic expectation parents have for these tours is that the experience of living abroad can make their children more independent and mature. However, maturity does not come overnight. It takes time and practice. The most important of all is that they need a good mentor（顧問）. None of these exist in the study tours.
小題1:Which of the following is the most important thing for children who study in an English environment according to the writer?
A．Host families.B．Hard work.C．Courses. D．Teachers.
小題2:The underlined word “mature” in the last paragraph probably means    .
A．a(chǎn)ctiveB．freeC．outgoing D．grown-up
小題3:What’s the author’s attitude towards the English study tours abroad?
A．Doubtful.B．Negative.C．Positive. D．Neutral.

小題1:B  
小題2:D 
小題3:B
最近出現(xiàn)了很多學生出國學習英語的熱潮，本文作者對此持否認的態(tài)度，文章分析了原因。
小題1:推理題。根據(jù)第2段3,4行This might be true if the students really study hard and they really get an all-English environment.可知學生的努力才是最重要的。B正確。
小題2:猜測詞義題。根據(jù)make their children more independent and mature.可知這個詞與independent是相近意義的詞，選項里只有D：成熟符合要求。獨立且成熟！
小題3:推斷題。根據(jù)第一段最后兩行However, for me, as an English major and former participant of many English study tours, I find these summer tours ineffective.可知作者認為這樣的夏令營沒有效率，對此持否定態(tài)度。
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