Question

If you want to become a fluent English speaker, you should take some advice: there are four skills in learning English. They are listening, speaking, reading 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 sentences, the meaning of the unfamiliar words, etc.

There is no need for you to pay much attention to grammar—or try to understand all the unfamiliar words you come across, but the fact 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(输入) 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(更好地) taking some notes.

If you follow these pieces of advice, your speaking and writing will improve automatically(自动地)，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.To improve your reading, when you read you should ________.

A．look up all the new words in the dictionary

B．think about what you are reading actively

C．spend more time studying grammar

D．copy as many words and sentences as possible

3.The underlined words “come across” in paragraph 3 probably be replaced by ________.

A．meet by accidentB．discoverC．find on purposeD．look for

4.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 in reading every day

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

D．you should take notes of whatever you are hearing

Answer

1.A

2.B

3.A

4.C

【解析】

试题分析：本文主要讲述的是如何成为一个在英语读写方面很流利的人。

1.理解题。根据第一段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.说明，阅读和听力是最重要的内容，故A正确。

2. 细节理解题。根据第二段中Read as much as you can. But your reading must be active.说明，我们要积极的思考我们所阅读的内容，故B正确。

3.第三段第一句There is no need for you to pay much attention to grammars or try to understand all the unfamiliar words you come across可知，是指在阅读中你所偶然遇见的那些你不熟悉的单词，故该词指“偶然遇见”，故A正确。

4. 细节理解题。根据第四段中You can only pay attention to your reading and become skillful at your reading ,then you can catch up on your listening.可知，擅长阅读有助于你的听力。故选C。

【名师点评】本文主要讲述的是如何成为一个在英语读写方面很流利的人。本文比较简单，考查比较细致。在阅读的时候要抓住文章中的关键点，合理的定位。

考点：考查教育类阅读