Question

【2011·河北邯郸市二模】A

To the students

Reading is very important to help you learn English. It is also a lot of fun. But to learn as much as you can from reading, it is important to read different kinds of English. For example, the English you need when you read a train timetable is very different from the English you need when you read a story. This book has a lot of different kinds of English.

There are six sections in the book:

Section 1 is Messages: In this section somebody wants to send information in writing to somebody else. There is a test on timetables and a test on timetables. There is also a test on text messages and another on e-mails.

       Section 2 is People: In this part all the tests are about people, in different ways. For example, there is an informal letter between friends. There is formal English in biography . There is a CV and a job application（申请） that you can use as a model to help with your writing, as well as testing your reading.

Section 3 is Places: In this section , too, many different styles of English are shown, some informal and some formal. There is the informal English of a holiday postcard．There are also the formal English of a novel—like all the fiction extracts in the book – and a formal letter of complaint（投诉）.

       Section 4 is Things: You will find some descriptive writing in this section. There are descriptions of clothes and of a computer. There are more examples of letters, including an informal letter thanking someone for a present. And there is a test about buying and booking on the Internet.

       Section 5 is Fiction: There are many different kinds of fiction in this section, from an adventure story to jokes, a comic and a cartoon. There are also (as in other sections) examples of American and British English.

       Section 6 is Fact: This section has different kinds of newspaper stories, an encyclopedia entry, a recipe and advice on how to survive and earthquake.

You can do these tests in any order you like, You can do a complete section or jump about between sections. You can do all the tests with a fiction text, or all the tests with a letter text or a newspaper text, or all the tests with a formal or informal text. Or you can do the ones you like best first. Who knows, maybe you will like the others too, when you do them.

I enjoyed writing this book and I hope you enjoy using it.

Michael Dean

41．If you’re fond of jokes, you can go to            .

       A．Section 6               B．Section 5                C．Section 4                D．Section 3

42．When a student learns to write letters, he can refer to           .

       A．Section 1, 2 and 3                                       B．Section 2, 3 and 4

       C．Section 3, 4 and 5                                       D．Section 4, 5 and 6

43．The author suggests students do the tests          .

       A．in whatever order they like                           B．section by section

       C．from the very beginning                              D．from the easiest part

44．The main purpose of the text is to            .

       A．introduce the contents of the book

       B．give students advice on  how to use the book

       C．present different styles of English

       D．suggest students use different English according to different aims.

Answer 1

【答案】41-44 BBAA