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 looked up each word in the dictionary, once 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. Its 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 his 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, but the meaning of the sentence doesn’t change. Let’s see the different between the two parts 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 word order

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 words

B. the order of words can never change the meaning of an English sentence

C. sometimes a 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（題目）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