Question

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 have already seen the film.”

When you are learning English, you must do your best to get the spirit(精神实质) 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 by word

2.The writer thinks it is _______ in learning English.

A．difficult to understand different sounds

B．necessary to remember the word order

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.”

Answer

1.A

2.B

3.C

4.B

【解析】文章介绍了在英语中语序的重要性，说明我们一定要掌握这方面的规则。

1.A 细节题。根据文章第一段1，,2行you find it not clever to put an English sentence, word for word, into your own language说明A正确。

2.B 细节题。根据第二段第二行. It’s important to master(掌握) the rules for word order in the study of English, too说明掌握单词的顺序是非常必要，B正确。

3.C 细节题。根据第二段4,5行Sometimes when the order of words in an English sentence is changed, the meaning of the sentence changes说明有时候不同的语序会有不同的意思。故C正确。

4.B She only likes apples表示有很多水果，她只喜欢苹果；Only she likes apples.说明别人都不喜欢苹果，只有她喜欢。故B正确。