21世纪的人类社会是信息时代的学习型、创新型社会,新的基础教育改革与新课程标准明确提出了人才的可持续发展战略,对学生的英语自主学习和合作学习能力也就有了更高的要求。未来的社会知识更新更快、社会协作分工更细,这就要求未来社会的建设者是一些充满求知欲的会自主学习的充满合作精神的人。英 The human society in the 21st century is a learning and innovative society in the information era. The new basic education reform and new curriculum standards clearly put forward the strategy of sustainable development of talents and have a greater capability of students' self-learning and cooperative learning of English High demand. In the future, the social knowledge will be updated faster and the social division of labor will be finer. This requires that future builders of the society be full of people who are full of curiosity and who can learn independently and cooperatively. British