Try reading the following sentences as fast as you can. “She sells seashells by the seashore. The shells she sells are surely seashells. So if she sells shells on the seashore, I’m sure she sells seashore shells.”
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“Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper. Did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled peppers? If Pete Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?”
Tongue twisters usually do not have much meaning. They are just designed to improve people’s ability  to pronounce words. Although they may be very difficult, these exercises are very important to people who are trying to speak English correctly. This is because tongue twisters help people to tell the differences between similar sounds.
So if you wish to pronounce words more smoothly, you’d better try picking out some tongue twisters and practicing them.
小題1:Tongue twisters are helpful in improving ___________ skills.
A．listeningB．writingC．pronunciationD．communication
小題2:The first tongue twister is hard because ___________.
A．it is very boring to readB．it teaches us a lot of knowledge
C．we don’t know who “she” isD．the sounds of “s” and “sh” are similar
小題3:The passage is probably taken from _________ in a school newspaper.
A．Story Time B．Study Garden
C．Latest NewsD．Lost and Found

小題1:C
小題2:D
小題3:B

試題分析：本文敘述了繞口令是用來讓人們練習(xí)自己的發(fā)音，區(qū)分相似的讀音，進(jìn)而提高自己的發(fā)音水平。
小題1:細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)these exercises are very important to people who are trying to speak English correctly. 繞口令提高發(fā)音技能，故選C。
小題2:推理判斷題。根據(jù)This is because tongue twisters help people to tell the differences between similar sounds.因為這個繞口令里“s” and “sh”是近的，不容易區(qū)分，故選D。
小題3:推理判斷題。根據(jù)短文的內(nèi)容繞口令是來提高人們的發(fā)音，所以這篇文章有可能來自學(xué)校的學(xué)習(xí)天地，故選B。
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