Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:
How you can best improve your English depends on where you live and particularly on whether or not or live in an English speaking community. If you hear English spoken everyday and mix freely with English speaking people, that is on the whole an advantage. On the other hand, it is often confusing to have the whole language, poured over you at once. Ideally, a step-by-step course should accompany this experiences . It will also help a great deal if you can easily get the sort of English books in which you are interested. The read a lot is essential. It is a stupid not to venture outside the examination'set books'or the textbooks you have a chosen for intensive study. Read as many books in English as you can, not as a duty but for pleasure. Do not choose the most difficult books you find, with the idea of listing and learning as many new words are possible.
Choose what is likely to interest you and be sure in advance that it is not too hard. You should not have to be constantly looking up new words in the dictionary, for that deadens interest and checks real learning .Look up a word here and there, but as a general policy try to push ahead, guessing what words mean from the context. It is extensive and not intensive reading that normally helps you to get interested in extra reading thereby improve your English. You should enjoy the feeling which extensive reading gives having some command of the language. As you read you will become , more and more familiar with words and sentence patterns you already know , understanding them better and better as you meet them in more and more contexts. Some of which may differ only slightly from others. Some people say that we cannot learn to speak a language better with the help of a book. To believe this is to believe that the spoken language and the written language are quite different things. This is not so . There is a very great deal common between the two.In learning the patterns and vocabulary of the written form, we are learning to be considerable extent those of the spoken form too. We are in fact, learning the language and not merely of form of the language.
Questions:
1) what advantage does the author talk about in the first paragraph ?
2)why is it essential to read books ?
3) which form of reading may improve your English?
4)Can we learn to speak a language from a book?
5) find the synonym of the word 'accompany' in reference to the passage.
(a) conduct (b )take (c) assist (d) occur
6)find the antonym of the word 'essential'.
(a) necessary (b) urgent (c) fundamental (d) optional
7) what is the meaning of the word 'deadens'in reference to the passage?
(a) considerable (b) command (c) merely (d)intensive
Answers
Answer:
1) Hearing English spoken by someone everyday and talking to English speaking person and mixing with them freely is an advantage.
2) Reading books makes you become more and more familiar with words, sentences, patterns, increases vocabulary.
3) Extensive reading is something that helps you improve your English.
4) Yes , we can, by learning the pattern, vocabulary from book we are also learning to speak the language.
5) c) assist
6) d) optional
7) c) merely
Explanation:
Answer:
1) Hearing English spoken by someone everyday and talking to English speaking person and mixing with them freely is an advantage.
2) Reading books makes you become more and more familiar with words, sentences, patterns, increases vocabulary.
3) Extensive reading is something that helps you improve your English.
4) Yes , we can, by learning the pattern, vocabulary from book we are also learning to speak the language.
5) c) assist
6) d) optional
7) c) merely
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