1、英语练习试题及答案分析Dear Mary,I have justm _ to a new house in a new townand am f _ very lonely. I have a very good j_ but no real friends, so every evening I s_ at home al _ and watch television. Ifinditdifficultto m _ friendsand don t knowwhere to meet new people.Can you give me some a _?Im looking forward
2、 to h _ from you.Love,SueWhat is language for?Somepeople seem to thinkitsfor practicinggrammar rulesandlearninglistsofwords? The longerthe lists,thebetter.That s wrong.Language isforthe exchangeofideas and information.It s meaningless knowing all about a language if youcan t use it freely. Many stud
3、ents I have met knowhundredsofgrammarrules,buttheycantspeakcorrectly or fluently (流利地 ). They are afraid ofmaking mistakes. One shouldn t be afraid of makingmistakeswhen speakingaforeignlanguage.Nativespeakers make mistakes and break rules, too. BernardShaw once wrote,“ Foreigners often speak Englis
4、h toocorrectly. But the mistakes that native speakersmake are different from those that Chinese studentsmake. Theyre Englishmistakes in the Englishlanguage.And if enough native speakers break a rule, it is nolonger a rule. What used to be wrong becomes right.People not only make history, they make l
5、anguage. Buta people ( 民族 ) can onlymake itsown language.Itcan t make anotherpeople s language.So Chinese studentsof English should pay attention to grammar, but theyshouldn t overdo it. They should put communicationfirst.1. Generally, when an American or all Englishman speaks English, he _.A. never
6、 makes mistakes B. often makes mistakesC. can t avoid ( 避免 ) making mistakes D. always makes mistakes2. The sentence“Foreigners often speak Englishtoo correctly.” means that _. A. foreigners speak correct EnglishB. foreigners speak incorrect EnglishC.foreignersspeakEnglishaccordinggrammar rulestothe
7、D. foreigners never make mistakes when they speak English3. When we speak a foreign language, we should_.A. speak in the Chinese wayB. speak according to the rulesC. break the rulesD. not be afraid of making mistakesMoved， feeling， job, stay, alone, make, advice,hearing解析：本题难点在于最后两空，advice是不可数名词，不能用复数； look forward to doing sth,要把 hear变成动名词。1. C 解析：文中第六句说到，即使是本民族与的使用者也会犯错误，四个选项中只有 C “不能避免犯错误”最符合意思。解析：从最后一句可以看出，作者强调外国人要学语法，但不能过分遵循，所以本句是说说外语时过分遵守语法了。3. D解析：本题从第五行最后及第六行开头可以得出答案。
