Question

【題目】If you want to become a fluent English speaker you should take some advice: there are four skills in learning English. They are reading ,listening, speaking and writing. The most important thing you must remember is that if you want to improve your speaking and writing skills you should first master the skills of reading and listening.

Read as much as you can. But your reading must be active. It means that you must think about the meaning of the sentences, the meaning of the unfamiliar words, etc. There is no need for you to pay much attention to grammar or try to understand all the unfamiliar words you come across, but the fact that you see them for the first time and recognize them whenever you see them, for example in other passage or books, is enough. It would be better to prepare yourself a notebook so you can write down the important words or sentences in it.

As for listening, there are two choices: besides reading, you can listen every day for about 30 minutes. You can only pay attention to your reading and become skillful at your reading, then you can catch up on your listening. Since you have lots of inputs in your mind, you can easily guess what the speaker is going to say. This never means that you should not practice listening.

For listening you can listen to cartoons or some movies that are specially made for children. Their languages are easy. Or if you are good at listening you can listen to VOA or BBC programs every day. Again the thing to remember is being active in listening and preferably taking some notes.

If you follow these pieces of advice, your speaking and writing will improve automatically, and you can be sure that with a little effort they will become perfect.

【1】According to the author, which should you improve first among the four skills?

A. Reading and listening.

B. Reading and writing.

C. Writing and speaking.

D. Speaking and listening.

【2】To improve your reading, when you read you should ________.

A. look up all the new words in the dictionary

B. think about what you are reading actively

C. spend more time studying grammar

D. copy as many words and sentences as possible

【3】The author seems to agree with the view that _________.

A. everyone should listen to VOA or BBC programs every day

B. You needn’t practice listening if you keep on reading every day

C. being good at reading is helpful in improving your listening

D. you should take notes of whatever you are hearing

【4】The passage is mainly about how to _________.

A. choose suitable listening materials

B. deal with new words in reading

C. improve your English as quickly as possible

D. become fluent in speaking and writing English

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】A

【2】A

【3】C

【4】D

【解析】試題分析：文章講述的是給要成為流利的英語使用者的四個建議。

【1】A 細節(jié)理解題。題目中問的是作者認為最應該先提高哪種技能，定位到第一段最后一句The most important thing you must remember is that if you want to improve your speaking and writing skills you should first master the skills of reading and listening.故選A，聽力和閱讀。

【2】A 詞意猜測題。unfamiliar words you come across與后面的the word you see 講的是同一內容，那么come across和see應該是差不多的意思，由此推斷是遇見的意思，結合前面的語境，應該是你無意中遇見的意思，故選A。

【3】C 推理判斷題。根據(jù)文中第三段此句“You can only pay attention to your reading and become skillful at your reading, then you can catch up on your listening. ”可推斷作者可能認為擅長讀會對聽力的提高有幫助。

【4】D 主旨大意題。全文圍繞如何成為一個流利的英語使用者展開，文章第一句就是寫作的主旨。If you want to become a fluent English speaker you should take some advice。