Question

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?" for example. If you look up each word in the dictionary, one at a time, what is your translation? It must be a wrong sentence in your own language.

Language do not just have different sounds, they are different in many ways. It's important to learn the rules for word order 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 only likes apples." "Only she likes apples."

"I have seen the film already." "I have already seen the film."

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

1.According to 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. What’ s the writer’s opinion in learning English?

A. It’s difficult to understand different sounds.

B. It’s impossible to remember the word order.

C. It’s important to learn the rules in different ways.

D. It’s easy to learn the rules for word order.

3. If the speakers put words in a wrong order, ___________.

A. it must be a right sentence

B. the listener can't understand the speaker's sentence easily

C. the meaning of the sentence always changes

D. the meaning of a sentence must be the same

4.Which of the following sentences has the same meaning as "She only likes apples" ?

A. Only she likes apples.

B. She doesn’t like any fruits but apples.

C. She likes fruit except apples.

D. she doesn't like apples.

5.Which is the best title for this passage?

A. Different Orders, Different Meanings

B. How to Speak English

C. How to Put English into Our Own Language

D. How to Learn English

Answer 1