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 meaning of the unfamiliar(不熟悉) 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 quickly, and you can be a fluent English speaker one day.

1.According to the writer, 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 grammars

D.copy as many words and sentences as possible

3.The underlined phrase “come across” in Paragraph 2 can probably be replaced by “______”.

A.hear B.discover C.meet by accident D.look for

4.The passage is mainly about how to ______.

A.choose suitable listening materials

B.deal with new words in reading

C.become fluent in speaking and writing English

D.improve your reading ability as quickly as possible

5.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.you should take notes of whatever you are hearing.

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

Answer

1.A

2.B

3.C

4.C

5.D

【解析】

本文是一篇说明文，介绍了如何提高英语听说读写能力的几点建议。

1.细节理解题。根据第一段中的“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.”可知，四项技巧中，应该首先改进阅读和听力，故A项正确。

2.细节理解题。根据第二段中的“But your reading must be active. It means that you must think about the meaning of the sentence, the meaning of the unfamiliar words, etc.”可知，阅读时要积极思考所读的内容，故B项正确。

3.词义猜测题。根据画线词所在的句子及画线词后的“but the fact that you see them for the first time and recognize them whenever you see them”可知，不要费力去理解你遇到的不熟悉的单词，只要你以后再遇到它们的时候认出它们就好了，由此可知画线词词义为“偶然遇到”，故C项正确。

4.主旨大意题。根据文章第一段中的“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.”可知，本文主要介绍了如何提高英语听说读写能力的几点建议，故C项正确。

5.推理判断题。根据第三段中的“You can only pay attention to your reading and become skillful at your reading, then you can catch up on your listening.”可知，擅长阅读有利于提高听力技巧，故D项正确。