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 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

Answer 1

1.A

2.B

3.C

4.B

5.A

【解析】

试题分析：该短文主要讲述了在英语学习过程中应该注意语序的问题，要从整体上理解意思，切勿逐词对照翻译。

1.可知，如果我们逐词翻译，翻译过来的话肯定是错误的。所以当我们学习英语时，不能一个词一个词的对照翻译理解意思。故选A。

2.在第二段，作者提到英语不仅有不同的发音，而且他们的构成形式多种多样，作者还提到掌握语序规则很重要，如果不知道语序规则就很难理解意思。但是作者未曾提及掌握英语发音和语序的难易程度。故选B。

3.细节理解题。短文第二段提及改变英语语序有时会导致语义发生变化，但是有时则不会，所以选C。

4.句意猜测题。“she only likes apples”的意思是，她只喜欢苹果；而“only she likes apples”的意思是只有她一个人喜欢苹果。所以两者的意思是不一样的，故选B。

5.】细节理解题。这篇短文主要讲述了语序的改变对英语学习的影响，提醒我们在英语的学习过程中应该注意语序方面的问题，要从整体上理解意思，而不是逐词对照翻译。故选A。

考点：教育类短文阅读。