Question

If you want to become a fluent English speaker you should take some advice: There are four skills in learning English. They are reading, listening, speaking, and writing. The most important thing you must remember is that if you want to improve your speaking and writing skills you should first master the skills of reading and listening.

Read as much as you can. But your reading must be active. It means that you must think about the meaning of the sentence, the meanings of the unfamiliar words, etc. There is no need for you to pay much attention to grammars or try to understand all the unfamiliar words you come across, but the fact that you see them for the first time and recognize them whenever you see them, for example in other passages or books, is enough. It would be better to prepare yourself a notebook so you can write down the important words or sentences in it.

As for listening, there are two choices: besides reading, you can listen every day for about 30 minutes. You can only pay attention to your reading and become skillful at your reading, then you can catch up on your listening. Since you have lots of inputs in your mind, you can easily guess what the speaker is going to say. This never means that you should not practice listening.

For listening you can listen to cartoons or some movies that are specially made for children. Their languages are easy. Or if you are good at listening you can listen to VOA or BBC programs every day. Again the thing to remember is being active in listening and preferably taking some notes.

If you follow these pieces of advice, your speaking and writing will improve automatically, and you can be sure that with a little effort they will become perfect.

1.According to the author, which should you improve first among the four skills?

A. Reading and listening. B. Reading and writing.

C. Writing and speaking. D. Speaking and listening.

2.The underlined phrase "come across" in Paragraph 2 can probably be replaced by "_______".

A. discover B. meet by accident

C. find on purpose D. look for

3.The author seems to agree with the view that_______.

A. everyone should listen to VOA or BBC programs every day

B. you needn't practice listening if you keep on reading every day

C. being good at reading is helpful in improving your listening

D. you should take notes of whatever you are hearing

4.The passage is mainly about how to_______.

A. choose suitable listening materials

B. deal with new words in reading

C. improve your English as quickly as possible

D. become fluent in speaking and writing English

Answer 1

1.A

2.B

3.C

4.D

【解析】

試題分析：文章講述的是給要成為流利的英語使用者的四個建議。

1.】A 細(xì)節(jié)理解題。題目中問的是作者認(rèn)為最應(yīng)該先提高哪種技能，定位到第一段最后一句The most important thing you must remember is that if you want to improve your speaking and writing skills you should first master the skills of reading and listening.故選A，聽力和閱讀。

2.B 詞意推斷題。unfamiliar words you come across與后面的the word you see 講的是同一內(nèi)容，那么come across和see應(yīng)該是差不多的意思，由此推斷是遇見的意思，結(jié)合前面的語境，應(yīng)該是你無意中遇見的單詞。故選B

【小題3]C 推理判斷題。A太絕對了，B選項認(rèn)為每天讀書就不用練習(xí)說了，但是作者認(rèn)為As for listening, there are two choices: besides reading, 兩者同樣重要，D中認(rèn)為你必須記下你遇到的每個單詞，過于絕對，而且作者的原話是There is no need for you to pay much attention to grammars or try to understand all the unfamiliar words you come across，沒有必要記下每一個單詞。

3.D 主旨大意題。全文圍繞如何成為一個流利的英語使用者展開，文章第一句就是寫作的主旨。If you want to become a fluent English speaker you should take some advice。

考點：本文屬于說明類文章的閱讀。