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 sentence, the meanings of the unfamiliar words, etc. There is no need for you to pay much attention to grammars 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 passages 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.
小題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.
小題2:The underlined phrase “come across” in Paragraph 2 can probably be replaced by“          ”.
A．meet by accident
B．discover
C．find on purpose
D．look for
小題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
小題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

小題1:A
小題2:A
小題3:C
小題4:D

試題分析：
小題1:A 細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)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.說明最重要的是讀和聽，故A正確。
小題2:A 猜測詞義題。根據(jù)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 passages or books, is enough.說明在下次下次再看見要認(rèn)識這個短語或單詞，說明come across指遇見，故A正確。
小題3:C 細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)第三段2,3行You can only pay attention to your reading and become skillful at your reading, then you can catch up on your listening.說明閱讀能提高你的聽力水平。故C正確。
小題4:D主旨大意題。文章講述的是如何提高讀和聽，因?yàn)殚喿x和聽力是說和寫的基礎(chǔ)，故最終的目的是為了如何提高說和寫，故D正確。
點(diǎn)評：文章主要講述了如何進(jìn)行英語閱讀和聽力方面的訓(xùn)練。文章的考查以細(xì)節(jié)題為主，要求考生仔細(xì)研讀文章內(nèi)容，合理推測，準(zhǔn)確判斷。
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