题目内容
61. Thousands of v________ come to our city for sightseeing every year.
62. If you want to keep fit, you need to eat h________ and take more exercise.
63. August is the e________ month of the year.
64. The little girl looked very w________ because she lost her way.
65. I got up late this morning, so I left home w________ having breakfast.
66. The dog floating(漂流) on the sea was found and carried to ________ (安全) in the end after the earthquake.
67. Mother always says you can’t ________(相信) all that people say online.
68. Have you got the ________(最新的) news about the drinking and driving in Beijing?
69. Japanese people are ________(教) how to prepare for earthquakes from an early age.
70. Since last year, the 9 Square Diary has become ________(流行的)online, especially
among young people.
61.visitors 62.healthily 63.eighth 64.worried 65.without
66.safe 67.believe 68.latest 69.taught 70. popular
Throughout history, people have been interested in knowing how language first began, but no one knows exactly where or how this happened. However, we do know a lot about languages, the language of today and also the languages of earlier times. There are probably about three thousand languages in the world today. Chinese is the language with the most speakers. English, Russian and Spanish are also spoken by millions of people. On the other hand, some languages in the world have less than one hundred speakers.
There are several important families of languages in the world. For example, most of the languages of Europe are in one large family called Indo-European. The original language of this family was spoken about 4,500 years ago. Many of the present-day languages of Europe and India are modern forms of the language of 4,500 years ago.
Languages are always changing. The English of today is very different from the English of 500 years ago. In time, some even die out completely. About 1,000 years ago, English was a little known relative of German spoken on one of the borders of Europe.
If a language has a number of speakers, or if it is very old, there may be differences in the way it is spoken in different areas. That is, the language may have several dialects. Chinese is a good example of dialect differences. Chinese has been spoken for thousands of years by many millions of people. The differences between the dialects of Chinese are so great that speakers of Chinese from some parts of China can’t understand speakers from other parts.
【小题1】The first paragraph mainly tells us that_______.
| A.most people in the world speak Chinese |
| B.there are thousands of languages in today’s world |
| C.man has much knowledge about languages |
| D.some people know several languages |
| A.will soon die out completely |
| B.were once a relative of English |
| C.are no longer spoken |
| D.come from the same family of language. |
| A.Chinese is the language with the most speakers. |
| B.English was a well-known relative of German spoken on one of the borders of Europe. |
| C.A language has many speakers, but there may be no differences in the way it is spoken in different areas. |
| D.Speakers of Chinese from some parts of China can understand speakers from other parts. |
| A.there are great differences between the dialects of Chinese |
| B.Chinese and many foreign languages are not of the same family |
| C.Chinese is a very old language |
| D.there are great differences between the old Chinese and the present-day Chinese |
| A.a special language spoken by Chinese |
| B.the sign used by Chinese people in a special area |
| C.the difference between the old and today’s Chinese |
| D.the form of a language used in one part of the country |