When you are learning English, you find it not clever to put an English sentence, word for word, into your own language. Take the sentence “How do you do? as an example. If you look up each word in t 题目和参考答案——青夏教育精英家教网—

题目内容

When you are learning English, you find it not clever to put an English sentence, word for word, into your own language. Take the sentence “How do you do?” as an example. If you look up each word in the dictionary, one at a time, what is your translation(翻译)？It must be a wrong sentence in your own language. Languages do not just have different sounds, they are different in many ways. It’s important to master(掌握) the rules for word order(顺序) in the study of English, too. If the speakers put words in a wrong order, the listener can’t understand the speaker’s sentence easily. Sometimes when the order of words in an English sentence is changed, the meaning of the sentence changes, But sometimes the order is changed, the meaning of the sentence doesn’t change. Let’s see the difference between the two pairs of sentences.

“She ony like apples.” “Only she likes apples.”

“My friend is Alice.” “Alice is my friend.”

When you are learning English, you must do your best to get the spirit(精神实质) of the language and use it as the English speaker does.

1. From the passage we know that when we are learning English.

A. we shouldn’t put every word into our own language

B. we should look up every word in the dictionary

C. we need to put every word into our own language

D. we must read word by word

2.The writer thinks it is in learning English.

A. difficult to understand different sounds

B. possible to remember the word order

C. important to master the rules in different ways