Read the following excerpt of an effective English learner’s essay and fill in the blanks with appropriate words from the box. Reading is the easiest skill. It is also the most widely found English language skill 1)_________ Chinese student, Writing is a more active skill than reading. However it is still a little easier than speaking, as there is plenty of time to choose the right words look in the dictionary 2)________help, and make corrections. Listening is the third most important language skill to learn. It is far more difficult to listen and understand spoken English than to read English in a book or in a letter. Speaking English may be the most difficult of the four language skills. It is an 3)_________skill, and requires the student to put words together into sentences without much time to prepare, and with no time for correction, yet it is the most exciting skill to have, as it opens 4)_________wonderful channels of communication with people of others cultures and countries. But this is just what we lack. More often than not I found some of the students who get high marks in their exams showed an inability to communicate with people in English. And this enabled me to understand deeper what my first English teacher has always 5)__________: listening and speaking keeping ahead; reading and writing following up. I believe this is the rule of learning a language because we learn a certain language to communicate. As we 6)_________the most difficult parts: listening and speaking, we would easily master the writing and reading skills. Then how can we make it? I have seen lots of diligent students in the early morning reading aloud their English texts without paying any attention to their nearly unacceptable pronunciation. I feel sorry for those students because their hard work 7)___________a much better English level if they improve their method of learning. I found that my way of learning English that I formed from middle school still works today. By listening to tapes and 8)___________the speakers one can improve his pronunciation within a short time. By reciting classic essays one can enrich their language as well as enlarge their vocabulary. As a non-English major, I like to set aside a certain period of time for English learning everyday, usually an hour or at least half an hour. I utilize this precious time by listening to tapes and imitating their content and then reciting the short passages I like. 9)_____________ dividing my attention between too many materials, I’d rather concentrate on one particular resource at a time such as College English, not only because of its abundant content and native English, but also because of the benefits it has brought to me through intensive reading, listening and reciting, I believe that studying English by using these intensive methods will help you to get 10)______the result with half the effort.