Tryreadingthefollowingsentencesasfastasyoucan.“Shesellsseashellsbytheseashore.Theshellsshesellsaresurelyseashells.Soifshesellsshellsontheseashore,I’msureshesellsseashoreshells.”Notveryeasy,wasit?W

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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 on the seashore, I’m sure she sells seashore shells.”
Not very easy, was it? What you’ve just read is called a tongue twister (绕口令). It is an exercise made up of sounds that are hard to pronounce(发音，读) in order to help people pronounce words faster and more correctly. Try the next example.
“Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper. Did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled peppers? If Pete Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?”
Tongue twisters usually do not have much meaning. They are just designed to improve people’s ability  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.
小题1: Tongue twisters are helpful in improving ___________ skills.

A．listening

B．writing

C．pronunciation

D．communication

小题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

小题3: The passage is probably taken from _________ in a school newspaper.

A．Story Time	B．Study Garden
C．Latest News	D．Lost and Found

Answer 1

小题1:C
小题2:D
小题3:B

小题1:细节理解题。根据 these exercises are very important to people who are trying to speak English correctly. 绕口令提高发音技能，故选 C 。
小题2:推理判断题。根据 This is because tongue twisters help people to tell the differences between similar sounds.因为这个绕口令里“s” and “sh”是近的，不容易区分，故选D。
小题3:推理判断题。根据短文的内容绕口令是来提高人们的发音，所以这篇文章有可能来自学校的学习天地，故选B。
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