Reading is very important to help you learn English．To learn as much as you can from reading, you need to read different kinds of English．This book provides not only different kinds of English but also a good way to check your reading ability．
There are four parts in the book：
Part 1 is Messages：In this part somebody wants to wad information in writing to somebody else．There is a test on timetables and a test on text messages．
Part 2 is People：In this part all the tests are about people．For example, there is an informal letter between friends．There is formal(正式的)English in biography(传记)．There is a job application as a model to help with your writing, as well as testing your reading．
Part 3 is Places：In this part, too many different kinds of English are shown, some informal and some formal．There is the informal English of a holiday postcard．There is also the formal English in a letter of complaint(抱怨)．
Part 4 is Things：You will find some descriptive writing in this part．There are descriptions of clothes and of a computer．
You can do these tests in any order you like, or you can do alt the tests with a formal or informal text．I enjoyed writing this book and I hope you enjoy using it,
(1)
We can find the introduction to a product in ________．
[ ]
A．
Part 1
B．
Part 2
C．
Part 3
D．
Part 4
(2)
Which of the following is most probably written in informal English?
My father made a deal with me that he would match whatever I could come up with to buy my fir st car．From the time I wa s a saver．My allowance, back in tho se day s, wa s twenty five cent s a week．I grew up on a farm near a small town called Ventura．In tho se day s the area wa s mo stly agricultural．The climate wa s and still i s a s clo se to perfect a s you could get．I earned some of my money picking one crop or another．When I wa s about ten, a school friend' s family owned walnut orchard s(果园)and it wa s harve st time．She told me we could earn five dollar s for every bag of walnut s we picked．I certainly learned about picking walnut s that day．Not surprisingly, that wa s my fir st and la st time a s a walnut picker．
In 1960 my grandmother pa s sed away．She left me 100 share s of AT＆T．One hundred share s of stock don't seem like much today but back then tho se share s paid me＄240 per year in dividend s(利息)．That wa s huge for a kid my age．
By the time I wa s seventeen．I had saved up ＄ 1, 300 and I knew exactly that I wanted．Ithink my father wa s somewhat suri sed when I announced I had saved up ＄ 1, 300 and wa s ready to buy my new car．I'll never forget the evening my father said, “Let' s go see about that car”．I wa s so excited．
My father could have ea sily ju st given me the car but he alway s in si sted that hi s children work for what they got．Thi s wa s not a bad thing．I learned self-reliance．Self-reliance i s equal to freedom．Now that I think about it I need to be thanking my father．
(1)
Which one of the following s didn't belong to the saving of ＄1, 300?
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A．
Weekly allowance．
B．
Her earning s by picking crop s．
C．
Share s left by grandma．
D．
Money earned from selling share s．
(2)
The underlined part in the second paragraph probably meant ________．
[ ]
A．
she didn't have the chance of picking walnut s
B．
enough money had been earned for her car
C．
the work wa s too hard for children like her
D．
she had no time to do that again for some rea son
(3)
We can know from the pa s sage the author got her car at the age of ________．
[ ]
A．
16
B．
17
C．
18
D．
19
(4)
The purpo se of the author' s father doing like that wa s to ________．
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