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A practical English Grammar is intended for intermediate（中級(jí)的） and post-intermediate students. We hope that more advanced learners and teachers will also find it useful.
The book is a comprehensive survey of structures and forms, written in clear modern English and illustrated with numerous examples. Areas of particular difficulty have been given special attention. Differences between conversational usage and strict grammatical forms are shown but the emphasis is on controversial forms.
In the fourth edition the main changes are as follows.
1. Explanation and examples have been brought up to date.
2. There is now more information on countable and uncountable nouns, attributive and predicative adjectives, adverbs of place, sentence adverbs, cleft sentences, prepositions, conjunctives, modal verbs, perfect tenses, infinitive constructions, the passive, purpose clauses and nouns.
3. Some material has been rearranged to make comparisons easier. For example, parts of chapters on can, may, must etc. are now grouped by functions; verbs of liking and preference have a chapter to themselves; suggestions and invitations have joined the chapter on commands, requests and advice.
4. The contents list now summaries every edition heading, and there is a new index containing many more entries references.
In this edition the sign “~” is frequently used to show a change of speaker in examples of dialogue. Note also that although the sign “="”" sometimes connects two words or expressions with the same meaning, it is often used more freely, e.g. to indicate a transformation from active to passive or direct to indirect speech.
We wish to thank all at Oxford University Press who have assisted in the preparation of the fourth edition. We would also like to thank Professor Egawa of Nihon University, Japan, Professor Rene Dirven of Duisburg University, West Germany and other colleagues for their friendly and helpful suggestions.
London, November 1985   A.J.T., A.VM

1. 1.
   The grammar book mentioned in this passage is not suitable for ______.
   1. A.
      a middle school teacher
   2. B.
      a primary school student
   3. C.
      a senior high student
   4. D.
      a college student
2. 2.
   According to the passage, we know that his grammar book ______.
   1. A.
      compares modern English with old English
   2. B.
      gives a large number of examples to reduce difficulty
   3. C.
      attaches more importance to conversational forms
   4. D.
      pays little attention to strict grammatical forms
3. 3.
   Which of the following statements about the changes is TRUE?
   1. A.
      This book keeps up with the latest usages of the America English language
   2. B.
      This edition offers more information about pronouns
   3. C.
      It’s not easy for us to find the information we need in this book
   4. D.
      One particular chapter discusses verbs like “care, like, love, hate, prefer, wish”
4. 4.
   When you see this line in the book, “Did you get a ticket? ~Yes, I managed to get one”, we can understand that ______.
   1. A.
      the two parts before and after the sign “~” mean the same
   2. B.
      the two parts before and after “~” are said by two different people
   3. C.
      the second speaker repeats what the first speaker says
   4. D.
      the topic is changed in the part after the sign “~”
5. 5.
   In the last paragraph, the authors thank several people because______.
   1. A.
      they have helped the authors with this edition
   2. B.
      they have agreed to buy a lot of books from the authors
   3. C.
      the authors want to make use of the fames of those people
   4. D.
      those people will make advertisements for this book

Answer 1

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試題分析：本文主要介紹了實(shí)用英語(yǔ)語(yǔ)法書(shū)的特點(diǎn)及對(duì)它的第四版主要不同的地方進(jìn)行了介紹。
1.細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)文章第一段A practical English Grammar is intended for intermediate（中級(jí)的） and post-intermediate students.實(shí)用英語(yǔ)語(yǔ)法適合中級(jí)水平或者更高水平的學(xué)者。即不適用于小學(xué)生。故選B
2.細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)第二段Differences between conversational usage and strict grammatical forms are shown but the emphasis is on controversial forms.可知，更加注重于有爭(zhēng)議的形式，故選C.
3.細(xì)節(jié)題判斷題。根據(jù)第三條verbs of liking and preference have a chapter to themselves;可知某一個(gè)特定的章節(jié)會(huì)來(lái)討論意思相近的動(dòng)詞的區(qū)別，故選D.
4.細(xì)節(jié)題。從In this edition the sign “~” is frequently used to show a change of speaker in examples of dialogue.可知，“~”表示兩個(gè)不同的人在對(duì)話，所以前后兩部分是不同的人說(shuō)話的內(nèi)容，故選B.
5.細(xì)節(jié)題。從最后一段We would also like to thank Professor Egawa of Nihon University, Japan, Professor Rene Dirven of Duisburg University, West Germany and other colleagues for their friendly and helpful suggestions.可知，他們這些人都給作者提供了好的建議和幫助，故選A.
考點(diǎn)：教育類說(shuō)明文
點(diǎn)評(píng)：本文不難，生詞多但并影響理解。文中主要對(duì)這本實(shí)用語(yǔ)法書(shū)進(jìn)行了有針對(duì)性的介紹。對(duì)于細(xì)節(jié)題較多的文章，學(xué)生應(yīng)該抱有信心，因?yàn)槊總�(gè)答案都在文章中，解答此類文章要注重細(xì)節(jié)，對(duì)長(zhǎng)句子要耐心分析成分，結(jié)合題目仔細(xì)的作答。