1 . When you are learning English, you find it not clever to translate 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, they are different in many ways. It’s important to master(掌握) 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 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 speakers do.
1. What’s the important thing in English study? (不超过10个词)2. What may happen if the order of words in a sentence is changed? (不超过10个词)
2 . There lived some animals in the forest. They seldom played together so they knew little about each other.
One day, a monkey was looking for food for dinner. Suddenly he saw a lion under a tree. The lion began to run at him and wanted to eat him as dinner. He was very afraid and tried to run away from the lion as soon as possible. He ran so quickly that he fell into the river and the lion left. Unluckily, he couldn’t swim. He shouted loudly, hoping someone might he help him out.
A swan (天鹅) heard him. She swam to the monkey. But she couldn’t pull the monkey out of the water, because she was not strong enough. After a while, an elephant came. He was very strong. He helped save the monkey with his long nose.
After being saved by the elephant and the swan, the monkey was very thankful to them for their kindness. The three animals became friends since then. That night, the monkey invited the elephant and the swan to his home and they shared a big meal together.
Help others in time, and we will get a special gift, such as friends.
1. What was the monkey doing when he met the lion? (不超过10个词)2. Why couldn’t the swan pull the monkey out of the water? (不超过10个词)
3. What does the story want to teach us? (不超过15个词)
3 . Franz Schubert was a famous musician in the world. But he lived a very hard life and often suffered(遭受)from being hungry. One day he was very hungry and went to a small restaurant, hoping he might meet some friends there. He looked around but found nobody he could borrow any money from. Then his eyes fell on a piece of paper on one of the tables. In it was a little poem(诗 歌).He read the poem. Then he wrote a piece of music for the poem and took his work to the owner of the restaurant. He only received a piece of beef and potato for it. Thirty years after his death, this manuscript(手稿)by Schubert was worth 40,000 francs. It was his famous Berceuse《摇篮曲》.
1. What was Franz Schubert?2. What did Schubert go to the restaurant for?
3. Did the owner of the restaurant understand music very much from this passage?
