题目内容：

Direction: After reading  the passage below. Fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct

My parents moved from New Jersey to Germany when I was a child. After a few weeks of playing with neighbors of the same age. I was speaking fluent German. That' s probably not an option if you want to learn a language 1. your next international trip. However, there are some new ways to learn key words and phrases before your departure.

2. playground immersion(沉浸), the best way to learn a language used to be in a classroom. Today, there are many more options. With the help of technology, you can easily get a linguistic edge, and perhaps even a cultural one, too.

The last few years 3. (see) a lot of language-learning software hitting the market .These programs, many of 4. have popular mobile apps, help beginners learn language basics.

Take Memrise for example. This language-learning platform uses flashcards(教学卡片) as memory aids. Memrise offers instruction in 25 languages, and its basic level is free, 5.  some advanced features available at $4.99 per month.

There are so many language apps, all claiming to be the best, 6.  there are even sites to help you sort if out. You can find detailed reports on these programs on Compare Language Apps: 7. independent testing site run by Professor Roumen Vesselinov at Queens College in New York.

I’ve had access to most of these apps over the years. However, I found that they were  8. too complicated or too time-consuming to help me learn a language before an international trip. Perhaps my experience of acquiring a language early in life and then trying to acquire 9. in a classroom(three years of French, which didn’t really stick)also contributed to my skepticism (怀疑).

The language experts I spoke with say you shouldn’t allow the promises of a course or an app 10. (convince)you that learning a language is easy. Experts agree that there is no substitute for "on-the-ground" experience practicing a new language with native speakers.