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A rabbit is running into his hole. You may ask, “What happened?”
Well, when a rabbit sees something dangerous, it runs away. Its tail moves up and down as it runs. When other rabbits see this tail moving up and down, they ran, too. They know there is danger. The rabbit has told them something without making a sound. It has given them a signal.
Many other animals use this kind of language. When a bee finds some food, it goes back to his home. It can’t tell the other bees where the food is by speaking to them, but it does dance in the air. This tells the bees where the food is.
But animals say things by making sounds. A dog barks, for examples, when a stranger comes near. A cat purrs(发出呼噜呼噜的声音) when pleased. Some birds make several different sounds, each with its own meaning.
But human beings have something that no animals have---- a large number of words about things, actions, feelings 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. By writing words down we can remind ourselves of the things that have happened, or send messages to people far away. No animals can do this. No animals has the wonderful power of language.
No one knows how man learned to make words. Somehow he learned to make them. As centuries went by, he made more and more new words. This is what we mean by language.
People in different countries made different kinds of words. Today there are about fifteen hundred different languages in the world. A very large English dictionary, for examples, contains four or five hundred thousand words. But we don’t know all these. The words we know are called vocabulary. We should try to make our vocabulary larger. Read as many books as possible. When we met a new word, look it up in the dictionary. A dictionary is the most useful book.
小题1:What’s the meaning of the underlined word?
A.标语 | B.信号 | C.唱片 | D.图像 |
A.by giving signals | B.by making different sounds |
C.by purring | D.by barking |
A.give the others information |
B.express their actions and feelings with words |
C.tell others how they feel |
D.make different sounds, each with its own meaning. |
A.all the words that we know | B.more and more words we use |
C.all the words we need | D.the dictionary which contains thousands of words |
A.Make more and more new words |
B.look up some new words in a dictionary |
C.learn more language |
D.Try to read as many books as possible |
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完型填空。
Most people in our country speak English. In some lands, people speak the other languages. There are over 2,000 languages spoken all over the world.
You probably know that every language has (1) own words, or vocabulary. If you want to learn a foreign language, you must learn its (2) . (3) our word
“cat”is“chat”in French and“Kate”in German. You must learn what the words (4) , and you must say them in the right way. Words are made up of sounds and different languages have (5) sounds. There are hundreds of language sounds. When you speak English, you are using only about fifty of them.Have you ever heard a foreign language spoken (6) television? Did it seem as it was spoken very fast? Maybe it was. Some languages are spoken faster than (7) . English is spoken (8) than French. French people speak about 350 syllables
(音节)per minute. As English, we speak 220.(9) some south sea people speak only fifty syllables per minute?
Women speak faster than men. In America, women speak about 175 words per minute, but men speak only 150. (10) per minute do you speak?
(1) |
A .his |
B .its |
C .their |
D .her |
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(2) |
A .phrases |
B .idioms |
C .dictionary |
D .vocabulary |
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(3) |
A .Such as |
B .Like |
C .For example |
D .But |
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(4) |
A .are spoken |
B .are said |
C .mean |
D .use |
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(5) |
A .different |
B .the same |
C .colorful |
D .nice |
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(6) |
A .in |
B .on |
C .by |
D .to |
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(7) |
A .other |
B .the other |
C .any |
D .others |
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(8) |
A .more slowly |
B .better |
C .faster |
D .much |
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(9) |
A .When |
B .But |
C .Although |
D .As |
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(10) |
A .How many |
B .How much |
C .How often |
D .How fast |
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A.An animal that helped an unhappy man. B.An animal that died of a broken heart. C.An animal that knew when its owner was coming back. D.An animal that loved classical music. E.An animal that tried to find the old friend. |
根据下面每段话的陈述内容,从方框中选出各段恰当的主题句,并将其字母序号填入题后的横线上。
1.Mr. and Mrs. Roper had a clever bird.Their son,Robert,often travelled a lot in his work.The bird always started calling “Robbie” a few hours before Robert appeared at the door.______
2.My friend and I had a picnic in a quiet place and played some Mozart on a CD player.Later, we were amazed to find some cows listening to the music carefully around us.______
3.In France, a man with his dog had to move to a new job 200 kilometers away.He left his cat at his old house.About three weeks later, the dog went away.Then seven weeks later, the dog and the cat came back together.They were tired and hungry after their long travel._______
4.A friend was moving to another country, so we took his pet goldfish back and put it in a bowl with our goldfish.After six months, my friend came back and took it home.The next day both his goldfish and mine died.I believed the departure (分离)broke their hearts._____
5.Bill Bowell always felt sad.His friend told him to swim with a dolphin.He made friends with a dolphin called Simo.Then his life changed.Simo made him happy again.______
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