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【题目】阅读理解
How to improve your English speaking skills?Here are some tips.
Find native English speakers.Talking to actual native speakers is the most effective way to improve your English skills.Your progress will be greater if you use this way.
Slow down. If you want to be understood,slow down.If you speak more clearly,your listeners can understand you better.
Record yourself.Though we hear ourselves all the time,we don't quite know what we sound like.So record yourself!And then you can focus on what you need to improve.
Take different classes.One class is good.But if you can take more than one class—of different styles—that's even better.
Speak English at home.Make a plan to speak it at home.Talk to yourself in English.You can also narrate your actions.While you're washing the dishes,say what you're doing,thinking,or feeling.It keeps your brain thinking in English.
Create opportunities.English speakers are everywhere.You have to find them. You can call up an English hotline.Call a phone company and make small talk about phone plans.Start a blog.Get into English chat rooms.There are ALWAYS opportunities to be found.
（1）Which is the most effective way to improve your English speaking skills?
A.Slowing down.
B.Talking to actual native speakers.
C.Recording yourself.
D.Taking different classes.
（2）What can we do if we want to be understood?
A.We can slow down.
B.We can listen more.
C.We can take more classes.
D.We can do more reading.
（3）If we want to know what we sound like,we can.
A.speak more clearly
B.take different classes
C.record ourselves
D.plan to speak English at home
（4）The underlined word “narrate”in the passage meansin Chinese.
A.拒绝
B.执行
C.摒弃
D.描述

Answer 1

【答案】
（1）B
（2）A
（3）C
（4）D
【解析】文章大意：本文介绍了一些提高英语口语能力的技巧。
（1）细节理解题。根据Talking to actual native speakers is the most effective way to improve your English skills可知。故选B。
（2）细节理解题。根据If you want to be understood, slow down可知，故选A。
（3）细节理解题。根据Though we hear ourselves all the time,we don't quite know what we sound like.So record yourself! 可知。故选C。
（4）词义猜测题。根据While you're washing the dishes,say what you're doing,thinking,or feeling的描述，可猜测narrate的意思是：描述。故选D。