Part 3 Reading

Questions:

1．Do you like learning English？

2．How many years have you learned English？

3．Can you speak English fluently？

Learning English

When you are learning English, you find it not clever to put an English sentence, word for word,1 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? 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 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 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 language2 and use it as the English speaker does.

——選自曹曉娟：《英語》，蘇州大學(xué)出版社2014年版

Notes

1．... you find it not clever to put an English sentence, word for word...

word for word意為“一字一字地，逐字地”。

2．... you must do your best to get the spirit of the language...

do one's best to do sth．意為“盡某人最大的努力做某事”。

the spirit of the language意為“語言的精神、靈魂”。

Exercises

1．Match each word in Column A with its explanation in Column B．將A欄單詞與B欄釋義連線。

2．Fill in each blank with a suitable word or phrase．選擇合適的詞或詞組填空。

1）It has to be in________to work.

2）Because of the rain, we________off the game.

3）Students are expected to________a second language.

4）Who do you________to？

5）I believe the Christmas music can touch the________.

6）Peter heard the________of gunfire.

7）Machine________can certainly help in these cases.

8）Is there________in writing columns？

3．Translate the following sentences．翻譯下列句子。

1）When you are learning English, you find it not clever to put an English sentence, word for word, into your own language.

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2）Take the sentence “How do you do?” as an example.

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3）Languages do not just have different sounds. They are different in many ways.

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4）If the speaker puts words in a wrong order, the listener can't understand the speaker's sentence.

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5）我將替你找到這個(gè)電話號碼。

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