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, once at a time, what is your translation? It must be a wrong sentence in your own language.

Language 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 sentences put words in a wrong order, the listeners can’t understand the speakers’ sentences easily. Sometimes when 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’ve 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 speakers do.

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 shouldn’t look up every word in the dictionary

C. we need to put every word into our own language

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 learn the rules in different ways

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

4. “She only likes apples,”

A. is the same as “Only she likes apple”.

B. is different from “Only she likes apple”.

C. means “She likes fruit except apples”.

5.Which is the best title for this passage?

A. Different Orders, Different Meanings

B. How to speak English?

C. How to Learn English?

Answer 1