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（翻譯）? 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（規(guī)則）for word order in the study of English, too. If the speakers put 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（精神實(shí)質(zhì)）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 by word

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

A. difficult to understand different sounds.

B. possible to remember the rules in different ways

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. 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 Languages

D. How to Learn English

 

Answer 1

1A   2C   3C   4D