题目内容
This is a rabbit. It is running into its hole. You will say, “What has this to do with language?” Can you see the rabbit’s tail? When a rabbit sees something dangerous, it runs away. Its white tail moves up and down as it rurns and warns other rabbits that there is danger. The rabbit has told them something without making sound. It has given them a signal.
Many other animals use this kind of language. For example, when a bee has found some food, it goes back to its home. It cannot tell the other bees where the food is by speaking to them, but it does a little dance in the air.
____53____ A dog barks when a stranger comes near. Some birds make several different sounds, each with its own meaning. Sometimes we human beings speak in the same way by making sounds like “Oh!” or “Ah!” when we are frightened or pleased.
But we have something that no animal has a large number of words that have the meanings of things, actions, feeling or ideas. We are able to give each other information, to tell or inform other people what is in our mind or how we feel. ____54___ No animal has the wonderful power of language.
____55____ Perhaps he began by making sounds like those made by animals. Perhaps he made low rough sounds like a pig when he lifted something heavy. Perhaps he made sounds like those he heard all round him --- water splashing(溅), bee humming（发出嗡嗡声）, a stone falling to the ground. Somehow he learned to make words. As the centuries went by, he made more and more new words. This is what we mean by language.
____56____ Today there are about fifteen hundred different languages in the world. Each contains many thousand words. A very large English dictionary, for example, contains four or five hundred thousand words. But we do not need all these. To read a book you need to know only about two thousand words. Before you leave school, you will learn only a few thousand more.
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A. Some animals say things by making sounds.
B. No one knows how man learned to make words.
C. People living in different countries made different kinds of words.
D. Some people are good at listening to and communicating with animals.
E. By writing words down we can remember things that have happened, or send messages to people far away.
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Let children learn to judge their own. A child who learns to talk does not learn by being corrected all the time; if corrected too much, he will stop talking. He notices a thousand times a day the difference between the language he uses and the language those around him use. Little by little, he makes the necessary changes to make his language like other people’s, in the same way, children learn to do all the other things without being taught—to walk, run, climb, ride a bicycle—compare their own performances with those of more skilled people, and slowly make the needed changes. But in school we never give a child a chance to find out his mistakes if we thought that he would never notice a mistake unless it was pointed out to him, or correct it unless he was made to. Let him work out, with the help of other children if he wants it, what this word says, what the answer is to that problem, whether this is a good way of saying or doing this or not. If it is a matter of right answers, as it may be in mathematics or science, give him the answer book. Let him correct his own papers. Why should we teachers waste time in doing such work? Our job should be to help the child when he tells us that he can’t find the way to get their own understanding, how to know what they know or do not know.
1.According to the passage, the best way for children to learn things is ___
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A．to listen to skilled people’s advice |
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B．to ask older people many questions |
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C．to make mistakes and have them corrected |
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D．to do what other people do |
2.According to the writer, teachers in school should ___
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A．allow children to learn from each other |
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B．point out children’s mistakes whenever they are found |
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C．correct children’s mistakes as possible as they can |
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D．give children more book knowledge |
3.Which of the following does the writer think teachers should not do?
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A．Give children correct answers |
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B．allow children to make mistakes |
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C．Point out children’s mistakes |
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D．Let children judge their own work |
4.The passage suggests that learning to speak and learning to ride a bicycle are ___.
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A．different from learning other skills |
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B．the same as learning other skills |
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C．more important than other skills |
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D．not really important skills |
It was Monday. Mrs. Smith's dog was hungry , but there was not any meat in the house.
Considering that there was no better way. Mrs. Smith took a piece of paper, and wrote the following words on it：“Give my dog half a pound of meat.”Then she gave the paper to her dog and said gently：“Take this to the butcher（* person whose job is selling meat）and he's going to give you your lunch today.”
Holding the piece of paper in its mouth, the dog ran to the butcher's. It gave the paper to the butcher. The butcher read it carefully, recognized that it was really the lady's handwriting and soon did it as he was asked to. The dog was very happy, and ate the meat up at once.
At noon, the dog came to the shop again. It gave the butcher a piece of paper again. After reading it, he gave it half a pound of meat once more.
The next day, the dog came again exactly at noon. And as usual, it brought a piece of paper in the mouth. This time, the butcher did not take a look at paper, and gave the dog its meat, for he had regarded the dog as one of his customers.
But, the dog came again at four o'clock. And the same thing happened once again. To the butcher's more surprise, it came for the third time at six o'clock, and brought with it a third piece of paper. The butcher felt a bit puzzled . He said to himeself,“This is a small dog. Why does Mrs. Smith give it so much meat to eat today？”
Looking at the piece of paper, he found that there were not any words on it！
1.Mrs. Smith treated her little dog quite .
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A．cruelly |
B．fairly |
C．kindly |
D．friendly |
2.It seemed that the dog knew well that the paper Mrs. Smith gave it .
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A．might do it much harm |
B．could do it much good |
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C．would help the butcher |
D．was worth many pounds |
3.The butcher did not give any meat to the dog .
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A．before he felt sure that the words were really written by Mrs. Smith |
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B．when he found that the words on the paper were not clear |
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C．because he had sold out all the meat in his shop |
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D．until he was paid enough by Mrs. Smith |
4.From its experience, the dog found that .
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A．only the paper with Mrs. Smith's words in it could bring it meat |
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B．the butcher would give the meat to it whenever he saw it |
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C．Mrs. Smith would pay for the meat it got from the butcher |
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D．a piece of paper could bring it half a pound of meat |
5.At the end of the story, you'll find that .
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A．the dog was clever enough to write on the paper |
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B．the dog dared not go to the butcher's any more |
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C．the butcher was told not to give any meat to the dog |
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D．the butcher found himself cheated by the clever animal |