Question

Try reading the following sentences as fast as you can. “ She sells seashells by the seashore. The shells she sells are surely seashells. So if she sells shells in the seashore, I’m sure she sells seashore shells.”
Not very easy, was it? What you’ve just read is called a tongue twister（繞口令）. It is an exercise made up of sounds that are hard to pronounce in order to help people pronounce words faster and more correctly. Try the next example.
“Peter Piper picked a peck of picked peppers, Did Peter Piper pick a peck of picked peppers? If Peter Piper picked a peck of picked peppers, where’s the peck of picked peppers Peter picked?”
Tongue twisters usually do not have much meaning. They are just designed to improve people’s ability（能力）to pronounce words. Although they may be very difficult, these exercises are very important to people who are trying to speak English correctly. This is because tongue twisters help people to tell the differences between similar sounds.
So if you wish to pronounce words more smoothly, you’d better try picking out some tongue twisters and practicing them.
小題1:Tongue twisters are helpful in improving ________ skills.

A．listening

B．writing

C．pronunciation

D．communication

小題2:The first tongue twister is hard because _________.

A．it is very boring to read

B．it teaches us a lot of knowledge

C．we don’t know who “she” is

D．the sounds of “s” and “sh” are similar

小題3:What does the “ability” mean in Paragraph 4?

A．Pronouncing words faster and more correctly.

B．Pronouncing words faster

C．Knowing the meaning of words.

D．Picking out tongue twisters smoothly.

Answer 1

小題1:C
小題2:D
小題3:A

試題分析：本文敘述了用你盡可能快的速度讀繞口令，繞口令讀起來不容易，如果你想要更流利的讀單詞，你最好找出一些繞口令并且經常練習。
小題1:細節理解題。根據文章第二段內容可知繞口令在提高發音技能上有所幫助，故選擇C。
小題2:細節理解題。根據文章第一段內容的理解可知，第一個繞口令難是因為s和sh的發音相似，故選擇D。
小題3:細節理解題。根據文章內容It is an exercise made up of sounds that are hard to pronounce in order to help people pronounce words faster and more correctly.可知“ability”的意思是更快更流利的的讀單詞，故選擇A。