2014 高考英语二轮阅读理解三月特训 <br />A Practical English Grammar is intended for intermediate( 中 级 的 ) and <br />post­intermediate students. We hope that more advanced learners and teachers will <br />also find it useful. <br />The book is a comprehensive survey of structures and forms, written in clear <br />modern English and illustrated with numerous examples. Areas of particular <br />difficulty have been given special attention. Differences between conversational <br />usage and strict grammatical forms are shown but the emphasis is on controversial <br />forms. <br />In the fourth edition, the main changes are as follows. <br />1．Explanation and examples have been brought up to date. <br />2．There is now more information on countable and uncountable nouns, attributive <br />and predicative adjectives, adverbs of place, sentence adverbs, cleft sentences, <br />prepositions, conjunctives, modal verbs, perfect tenses, infinitive constructions, <br />the passive, purpose clauses. <br />3 ． Some material has been rearranged to make comparisons easier. For <br />example, parts of chapters on can, may, must，etc. are now grouped by functions; verbs <br />of liking and preference have a chapter to themselves; suggestions and invitations <br />have joined the chapter on commands, requests and advice. <br />4．The content list now summaries every edition heading, and there is a new index <br />containing many more entries references. <br />In this edition, the sign &ldquo;～&rdquo; is frequently used to show a change of speaker <br />in examples of dialogues. Note also says that although the sign &ldquo;＝&rdquo;sometimes <br />connects two words or expressions with the same meaning, it is often used more freely, <br />e．g. to indicate a transformation from active to passive or direct to indirect speech. <br />We wish to thank all at Oxford University Press who have assisted in the <br />preparation of the fourth edition. We would also like to thank Professor Egawa of <br />Nihon University, Japan, Professor Rene Dirven of Duisburg University, West Germany <br />and other colleagues for their friendly and helpful suggestions. <br />1. The grammar book mentioned in this passage is not suitable for ________． <br />A．a middle school teacher <br />B．a primary school student <br />C．a senior high student <br />D．a college student <br />2. According to the passage, we know that this grammar book________． <br />A．compares modern English with old English <br />B．gives a large number of examples to reduce difficulty <br />C．attaches more importance to conversational forms <br />D．pays little attention to strict grammatical forms <br />3. Which of the following statements about the changes is TRUE? <br />A ． This book keeps up with the latest usages of the American English <br />language. <br />B．This edition offers more information about pronouns. <br />C．It&#039;s not easy for us to find the information we need in this book. <br />D． One particular chapter discusses verbs like &ldquo;care, like, love, hate, <br />prefer, wish&rdquo;． <br />4. When you see this line in ...