5. Which is the best title (标题) 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

[答案及解析]

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.”

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

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

A. difficult to understand different sounds

B. possible to remember the word order

C. important to master the rules in different ways

D. easy to master the rules for word order

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

5. C. 通读全文，知道有三人把裤子各缩短了两英寸，那么总共缩短了六英寸。

[实例三]

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(规则) 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.

4. D. 从第四段的原句(Later on, after supper, the elder sister remembered her brother’s trousers)中我们可知是晚饭后去把裤子缩短了。

3. C. 因当时妈妈和姐妹俩都忙于干活，所以当时都没有回答他的话。

2. A. 年轻人提出缩短裤子的要求，这个要求是向在场的妈妈和他的两个姐妹提出的。

1. B. 第一段的最后一句He found that they were about two inches too long.