提問的方式有分直接問題 direct questions 和間接問題 indirect questions，本期《英語小測驗》考考你對 questions 的提問方式能否分得清楚。

1. Which of the following is a correct indirect question?

a) Could you tell me where she does live?

b) Where could she live?

c) Could you tell me where she lives?

d) Where does she live?

2. Which of the following is a correct direct question?

a) When did he arrive?

b) Can you tell me when he arrived?

c) Would you mind telling me when he arrived?

d) Do you have any idea when he arrived?

3. Which of these is a correct subject question?

a) Who did write the tragedy Coriolanus?

b) Who was write the tragedy Coriolanus?

c) Whom wrote the tragedy Coriolanus?

d) Who wrote the tragedy Coriolanus?

4. In which sentence is the preposition correctly located?

a) What on earth about you are talking?

b) What about on earth are you talking?

c) What on earth are you talking about?

d) What on earth about are you talking?

5. Which question indicates that the speaker expects the other person to agree with him?

a) Do you think Shanghai is the most exciting city in China?

b) Is Shanghai the most exciting city in China?

c) Which city is the most exciting one in China? Shanghai?

d) Isn’t Shanghai the most exciting city in China?

6. Which of these sentences acts as a very polite way to ask a question?

a) Where is the station?

b) I wonder if you could tell me the way to the station.

c) Tell me where the station is.

d) How about telling me the way to the station?