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What is a language for? Some people seem to think it's for practising grammar rules and learning words. That's wrong. A language is for the exchange of ideas. It's no good knowing all about a language if you can't use it.
Many students I have been taught to know hundreds of grammar rules, but they can't speak correctly or freely. They are afraid of making mistakes. One shouldn't be afraid of making mistakes. We native speakers make mistakes, too. And we break rules. Bernard Shaw once said, “Foreigners often speak English too correctly. “But the mistakes that native speakers make are different from those that Chinese students make. They are English mistakes in the English language. And if enough native speakers break a rule, it is no longer a rule. What use to be wrong becomes right. The people not only make history, they also make a language. They can make their own language. They can't make another people's language.
So Chinese students of English should pay attention to the grammar, but they shouldn't over do it. They should put communication(交际) first.
1.We learn a foreign language when ________.
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A.we want to practise grammar rules
B.we want to speak it correctly
C.we want to know something about another country and its people
D.we want to learn words
2.While learning a foreign language ________.
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A.don't be afraid of making mistakes
B.don't be afraid of speaking too correctly
C.try to make mistakes like native speakers
D.try to speak it incorrectly
3.The passage says that while speaking English, Chinese students make mistakes ________.
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A.and some foreigners also make mistakes
B.but foreigners never make mistakes
C.and some Englishmen also make mistakes
D.but native speakers never make mistakes
4.The passage doesn't say, but it leads you to believe that ________.
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A.history is never changed
B.history is always changing
C.language is never changed
D.language is always changing
5.The writer of this passage is probably a ________.
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解题点拨 1.见原文相应处 “A language is for the exchange of ideas”只有C的表述符合原意. 2.见原文第二段第三句. 3.见第二段中间一句.“We native speaker make mistakes, too”. 4.从第二段最后几句人们不仅能创造历史,他们也能创造语言,可以推断语言是一个发展的过程,不是一成不变的. 5.从第二段第一句“Many students I have been taught…”可知作者是个老师,从句中 “ We native speakers make mistakes, too”和“They are English mistakes in…”推知作者是一个“Chinese teacher”. |
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