Question

I am a writer. I spend a great deal of my time thinking about the power of language—the way it can evoke(喚起) an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth. Language is the tool of my trade. And I use them all—all the Englishes I grew up with.
Born into a Chinese family that had recently arrived in California, I’ve been giving more thought to the kind of English my mother speaks. Like others, I have described it to people as “broken” English. But feel embarrassed to say that. It has always bothered me that I can think of no way to describe it other than “broken”, as if it were damaged and needed to be fixed, as if it lacked a certain wholeness. I’ve heard other terms used, “l(fā)imited English,” for example. But they seem just as bad, as if everything is limited, including people’s perceptions(認(rèn)識(shí))of the limited English speaker.
I know this for a fact, because when I was growing up, my mother’s “l(fā)imited” English limited my perception of her. I was ashamed of her English. I believed that her English reflected the quality of what she had to say. That is ,because she expressed them imperfectly her thoughts were imperfect. And I had plenty of evidence to support me: the fact that people in department stores, at banks, and at restaurants did not take her seriously, did not give her good service, pretended not to understand her, or even acted as if they did not hear her.
I started writing fiction in 1985. And for reasons I won’t get into today, I began to write stories using all the Englishes I grew up with: the English she used with me, which for lack of a better term might be described as “broken”, and what I imagine to be her translation of her Chinese, her internal(內(nèi)在的) language, and for that I sought to preserve the essence, but neither an English nor a Chinese structure: I wanted to catch what language ability tests can never show; her intention, her feelings, the rhythms of her speech and the nature of her thoughts.
小題1:By saying “Language is the tool of my trade”, the author means that ______.

A．she uses English in foreign trade	B．she is fascinated by languages
C．she works as a translator	D．she is a writer by profession

小題2:The author used to think of her mother’s English as ______.

A．impolite

B．a(chǎn)musing

C．imperfect

D．practical

小題3:Which of the following is TRUE according to Paragraph 3?

A．Americans do not understand broken English.

B．The author’s mother was not respected sometimes.

C．The author’ mother had positive influence on her.

D．Broken English always reflects imperfect thoughts.

小題4:The author gradually realizes her mother’s English is _____.

A．well structured	B．in the old style
C．easy to translate	D．rich in meaning

小題5:What is the passage mainly about?

A．The changes of the author’s attitude to her mother’s English.

B．The limitation of the author’s perception of her mother.

C．The author’s misunderstanding of “l(fā)imited” English.

D．The author’s experiences of using broken English.

Answer 1

小題1:D
小題2:C
小題3:B
小題4:D
小題5:A

小題1:細(xì)節(jié)理解題。文章第一句說明“我是作家”，然后說了我對(duì)語言運(yùn)用的認(rèn)識(shí)，然后又用Language is the tool of my trade 來強(qiáng)調(diào)自己的身份。
小題2:推理判斷題。由第三段中作者認(rèn)為母親所說的英語“限制了我對(duì)她的感知、影響了她的表達(dá)的質(zhì)量”以及句子That is because…were imperfect可推知。
小題3:細(xì)節(jié)理解題。由文章第三段最后一句話可知答案。
小題4:主旨大意題。歸納最后一段可知，作者慢慢認(rèn)識(shí)到母親的broken English包含了太多的內(nèi)容：她的意圖、感情、說話節(jié)奏等。
小題5:主旨大意題。文章講述作者對(duì)母親的broken English由開始的“認(rèn)為是不完美的”到后來認(rèn)識(shí)到母親的語言“內(nèi)涵豐富”的一個(gè)變化過程。