题目内容

He ______ it on schedule, but somehow he fell behind.

A. must have done B. might finish

C. could have finished D. could finish

 

【答案】

C

【解析】

试题分析:句意为:他本能够按时完成任务,但他莫名其妙的落后了。must have done 对过去发生的事情的肯定推测,译为“一定---”;might do对现在发生的事情的肯定推测,译为“也许---”语气不十分肯定;could have done意为“本能够---”;could do 用于虚拟语气,对现在或将来的事情虚拟。

考点:考查情态动词的用法。

 

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For a man, slight problems may begin when the shop does not have what he wants, or does not have exactly what he wants. In that case the salesman, as the name implies, tries to sell the customer something else, he offers the nearest to the article required. No good salesman brings out such a substitute impolitely; he does so with skill: “I know this jacket is not the style you want, sir, but would you like to try it for size? It happens to be the color you mentioned.” Few men have patience with this treatment, and the usual response is: “This is the right color and may be the right size, but I should be wasting my time and yours by trying it on.”
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1.The underlined sentence “the price is a secondary consideration” in the first paragraph means when a man is shopping ______.

Ahe buys good quality things, so long as they are not too dear

Bhe buys whatever he likes without considering its value

Che does not mind how much he has to pay for the right things

Dhe often buys things without giving the matter proper thought.

2.What does a man do when he can not get exactly what he wants?

AHe buys a similar thing because of the color he wants.

BHe usually does not buy anything.

CAt least two of his requirements must be met before he buys.

DSo long as the style is right, he buys the thing.

3.What is the most obvious difference between men and women shoppers?

AMen do not try clothes on in a shop while women do.

BWomen bargain for their clothes, but men do not.

CThe time they take over buying clothes.

DMen go shopping based on need, but women never.

 

It is not unusual for people to speak two or three languages; they’re known as bilinguals or trilinguals. Speakers of more than three languages are known as polyglots. And when we refer to people who speak many languages, perhaps a dozen or more, we use the term hyper-polyglot.

The most famous hyper-polyglot was Giuseppe Mezzofanti, a 19th century Italian cardinal, who was said to speak 72 languages. This claim sounds absurd. If you assume each language had 20,000 words, Mezzofanti would have to learn a word a minute, six hours a day, for eleven years—an impossible task. But Mezzofanti was tested by critics, and they were all impressed.

Did Mezzofanti have an extraordinary brain? Or are hyper-polyglots just ordinary people with ordinary brains who manage to do something extraordinary through hard work?

U.S. linguist Stephen Drashen believes that outstanding language learners just work harder at it and then they acquire unusually strong language ability. As an example, he mentions a Hungarian woman who worked as an interpreter during the 20th century. When she was 86, she could speak 16 languages and was still working on learning new languages. She said she learned them mostly on her own, reading fiction or working through dictionaries or textbooks.

Some researchers argue to the contrary. They believe that there is such a thing as a talent for learning languages. In the 1930s, a German scientist examined parts of the preserved brain of a hyper-polyglot named Emil Krebs, who could speak 60 languages fluently. The scientist found that the area of Krebs’s brain called Broca’s area, which is associated with language, looked different from the Broca’s area in the brains of men who speak only one language. However, we still don’t know if Krebs was born with a brain ready to learn dozens of languages or if his brain adapted to the demands he put on it.

Although it is still not clear whether the ability to learn many languages is in born, there’s no doubt that just about all of us can acquire skills in a second, third, or even fourth language by putting our mind to it.

1.What does the underlined sentence imply?

A. Mezzofanti could remember 360 words a day.

B. Mezzofanti had a special way to learn languages.

C. Mezzofanti’s achievement was ridiculous.

D. Mezzofanti language ability was astonishing.

2.The Hungarian woman became a hyper-polyglot mainly because of her __.

A. good memory       B. unique brain      C. hard work      D. learning methods

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A. had an unusual brain

B. was born with great talent

C. had worked hard at languages

D. expected too much of himself

4.The author seems to agree that ___.

A. it is not hard to learn foreign languages

B. hard work plays a part in language learning

C. there is no such thing as a talent for languages

D. hyper-polyglots have an inborn talent for language

 

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