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.
Languages don’t just have different sounds, and they are different in many ways. It’s important to master the rules for the word order in the study of English, too. If the speaker puts 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 when 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 movie already.” “I have already seen the movie.”
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.
【小题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 |
【小题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 for the word order | D．easy to master the rules for the word order |
【小题3】We can learn from the passage that ________.
| A．the meaning of an English sentence always changes with the order of the words |
| B．the order of words can never change the meaning of an English sentence |
| C．sometimes different orders of words have different meanings |
| D．if the order of words is different, the meaning of the sentence must be different |
【小题4】“She only likes apples.” ________.
| A．is the same as “Only she likes apples.” | B．is different from “Only she likes apples.” |
| C．mean “She likes fruit except apples.” | D．means “She doesn’t like apples.” |
【小题5】Which is the best title for the 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 |
