Question

If you want to become a fluent English speaker you should take some advice: There are four skills in learning English. They are reading, listening, speaking, and writing. The most important thing you must remember is that if you want to improve your speaking and writing skills you should first master the skills of reading and listening.

Read as much as you can. But your reading must be active. It means that you must think about the meaning of the sentence, the meanings of the unfamiliar words, etc. There is no need for you to pay much attention to grammars or try to understand all the unfamiliar words you come across, but the fact that you see them for the first time and recognize them whenever you see them, for example in other passages or books, is enough. It would be better to prepare yourself a notebook so you can write down the important words or sentences in it.

As for listening, there are two choices: besides reading, you can listen every day for about 30 minutes. You can only pay attention to your reading and become skillful at your reading, then you can catch up on your listening. Since you have lots of inputs in your mind, you can easily guess what the speaker is going to say. This never means that you should not practice listening.

For listening you can listen to cartoons or some movies that are specially made for children. Their languages are easy. Or if you are good at listening you can listen to VOA or BBC programs every day. Again the thing to remember is being active in listening and preferably taking some notes.

If you follow these pieces of advice, your speaking and writing will improve automatically, and you can be sure that with a little effort they will become perfect.

1.According to the author, which should you improve first among the four skills?

A. Reading and listening.   B. Reading and writing.

C. Writing and speaking.    D. Speaking and listening.

2.The underlined phrase "come across" in Paragraph 2 can probably be replaced by "_______".

A. discover                            B. meet by accident

C. find on purpose                      D. look for

3.The author seems to agree with the view that_______.

A. everyone should listen to VOA or BBC programs every day

B. you needn't practice listening if you keep on reading every day

C. being good at reading is helpful in improving your listening

D. you should take notes of whatever you are hearing

4.The passage is mainly about how to_______.

A. choose suitable listening materials

B. deal with new words in reading

C. improve your English as quickly as possible

D. become fluent in speaking and writing English

Answer

1.A

2.B

3.C

4.D

【解析】

试题分析：文章讲述的是给要成为流利的英语使用者的四个建议。

1.】A 细节理解题。题目中问的是作者认为最应该先提高哪种技能，定位到第一段最后一句The most important thing you must remember is that if you want to improve your speaking and writing skills you should first master the skills of reading and listening.故选A，听力和阅读。

2.B 词意推断题。unfamiliar words you come across与后面的the word you see 讲的是同一内容，那么come across和see应该是差不多的意思，由此推断是遇见的意思，结合前面的语境，应该是你无意中遇见的单词。故选B

【小题3]C 推理判断题。A太绝对了，B选项认为每天读书就不用练习说了，但是作者认为As for listening, there are two choices: besides reading, 两者同样重要，D中认为你必须记下你遇到的每个单词，过于绝对，而且作者的原话是There is no need for you to pay much attention to grammars or try to understand all the unfamiliar words you come across，没有必要记下每一个单词。

3.D 主旨大意题。全文围绕如何成为一个流利的英语使用者展开，文章第一句就是写作的主旨。If you want to become a fluent English speaker you should take some advice。

考点：本文属于说明类文章的阅读。