When you are learning English, you find it not clever to put an English sentence, word for word, into your own language. Take the sentence “How do you do？”as an example. If you look up each word in the dictionary, one at a time, what is your translation? It must be a wrong sentence in your own language.
Languages do not just have different sounds; they are different in many ways. It’s important to master（掌握）the rules for word order in the study of English, too. If the speaker puts words in a wrong order, the listener can’t understand the speaker’s sentence easily. Sometimes when the order of words in an English sentence is changed, the meaning of the sentence changes. But sometimes the order is changed, the meaning of the sentence doesn’t change. Let’s see the difference between the two pairs of sentences.
“She only likes apples.”
“Only she likes apples.”
“I have seen the film already.”
“I already have seen the film.”
When you are learning English, you must do your best to get the spirit of the language and use it as the English speaker does.
1.From the passage we know that____ when we are learning English.
A. we shouldn’t put every word into our own language.
B. we should look up every word in the dictionary.
C. we need to put every word into our own language.
D. we must read word for word.
2.The writer thinks it is_____ in learning English.
A. difficult to understand different sounds
B. possible to remember the word order rules
C. important to master the rules in different ways
D. easy to master the rules for word order
3.We can learn from the passage that______.
A. the meaning of an English sentence always changes with the order of the words
B. the order of words can never change the meaning of an English sentence
C. sometimes different order of words has a different meaning
D. if the order of words is different, the meaning of the sentence must be different
4.“She only likes apples.”_______
A. is the same as “Only she likes apples.”
B. is different from “Only she likes apples.”
C. means “She likes fruit except apples.”
D. means “She doesn’t like apples.”
5.Which is the best title for this passage?
A. Different Orders, Different Meanings
B. How to Speak English
C. How to Put English into Our Own Language
D. How to Learn English
完型填空。（每题1分，共10分）
Never give up! That is one lesson I learned when I was very young. At the age of four, I started school. It was because I couldn’t talk to other kids. Maybe I was shy because I got used to talking with others. I only knew Spanish, and English was just a mixture(混合物) of .When the teacher spoke, the words became faster and faster. I was unable to . I didn’t know what to do. I sometimes felt like crying, but I kept telling myself never to 。
Soon I started to learn English. the end of year I could understand, read, speak and write English. The next year I met my friend Erick. It was his year of school and he didn’t know English, so I started to him this difficult language. We kept learning more and more every year and now we are very good English speakers. I also began teaching my two young sisters.
Now I’m learning Japanese. It may be a little but I will keep at it. No matter how hard something is, I never give up.
Nothing is difficult in the world if you put your heart into it.
1.A. afraid B. funny C. relaxing D. lonely
2.A.ever B. never C. always D. often
3.A.language B. subject C. noise D. sound
4.A.hear B. express. C. understand D. believe
5.A.give up B. put up C. look up D. fix up
6.A.By B. At C. On D. In
7.A.first B. second C. next D. last
8.A.give B. teach C. show D. send
9.A.between B. neither C. all D. both
10.A.easy B. difficult C. exciting D. interesting
---Excuse me, could you tell me where the hospital is?
---Go straight and turn____ left. It’s on_____ right.
A. the, / B. /, / C. the, the D. /, the
____pretty the dragon boats were！
A. How B. How a C. What D. What a
____you do your homework, the______ mistakes you’ll make.
A. The more careful, less B. The more carefully, fewer
C. The most careful, less D. The most carefully, fewest
The hen_____5 eggs last week. Where did you_____ them?
A. lay, lay B. laid, lay
C. laid, lie D. lay, laid
