【题目】 Last year I studied in Grade Eight in a junior middle school. I got sick and missed a few days classes. When I returned, I was greeted with two compositions, lots of homework about math, English and history, plus several tests. Although I went home from school that day very late, tired as a dog, I had to stay up really late to finish them all.

(A) You can only imagine my shock when I learned that I had passed the test! I have never in my whole life been so happy to see my grade, a C.

(B) As it turned out, I didnt know the most of the questions. I was just about to give in when my pencil accidentally fell and broke. Standing by the blackboard sharpening my pencil, I looked down and there in full view lay the answer sheet for the test! What good fortune! I can kiss good-bye to all my worries of failing the test! My heart started beating, and my brain whispered(spoke very quietly),Yes! Read over the answers quickly! This was quickly followed by another voice, No! Youll get caught! My mind turning back and forth, Yes! No! Yes! No! . . . This went on for ten of the longest seconds in my entire life.

(C) The next day when I walked into the classroom, my great joy of having been an honest soul changed into a wave of doom as I saw my test paper lying face down on my desk. I knew what awaited me. I stared at it a few seconds before I got up the nerve to turn it over.

(D) The next day at school, I got a rude awakening: Id totally forgotten to prepare for the test on Du Fu, one of the famous poets in Dang Dynasty, which Id take over my lunch hour! Worse still, I had missed the in-class discussion and all the notes. When lunch came, I went to the classroom to face my certain doom, a terrible event that I cannot avoid. All I could do was try to guess on the questions I didnt know.

(E) Finally,I decided to finish the test on my own, without cheating at last! I was satisfied with my decision but pretty certain I had failed the test.

My mom says the victories that take the most courage are won within. Now I know exactly what she means. Now not only can my conscience(the part of my mind that tells me whether my actions are right or wrong) rest easy, but I dont have to worry about getting caught and meeting a sad ending like Du Fu .

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【题目】 Students who study foreign languages do not need to care whether the grammar is easy or difficult. By changing the order of the words and by adding some auxiliary verbs (助动词)and suffixes (后缀), we can turn a statement into a question, state whether an action has taken place or is soon to take place, and perform many other word skills to express different meanings. However, the question which many language experts can’t understand or explain is — who created grammar?

Some recent languages were developed from the Atlantic slave trade(大西洋奴隶贸易). Since the slaves didn’t know each other’s languages, they developed a language called a pidgin. Pidgins are strings of words (字串) copied from the language of the landowners. They have little in the way of grammar, and speakers need to use too many words to make their meaning understood, however, Slave children didn’t simply copy the strings of words used by their elders. They adapted their words to create an expressive language. In this way complex grammar systems which come from pidgins were invented.

Further facts can be seen in studying sign languages for the deaf. Sign languages are not simply a group of gestures; they use the same grammatical system that is found in spoken languages. A recent record of the creation of this language was born in Nicaragua. Previously, although deaf children were taught speech and lip reading in the classrooms, on the playgrounds they began to invent their own sign system, using the gestures they used at home. It was basically a pidgin and didn’t meet grammar rules. However, a new system was born when children who joined the school later developed a quite different sign language. It was based on the signs of the older children, but it was shorter and easier to understand, and it had a large range of special use of grammar to explain the meaning. What s more, they all used the signs in the same way. So the original pidgin was greatly improved.

Most experts believe that many of the languages were pidgins at first. They were used in different groups of people without rules and gradually turned into a widely accepted system. The English past tense — “ed” ending — may have come from the verb “do”. “It ended” may once have been “It end-did”. It seems that children have grammatical machinery in their brains. Their minds can create different structures, even when there is no grammar present for them to copy.

1What can be inferred (推断) about the slaves’ pidgin language?

A.It was difficult to understand.B.It came from different languages.

C.It was created by the landowners.D.It contained highly complex grammar.

2What does the underlined word “they” refer to?

A.SlaveB.PidginsC.Slave childrenD.Grammar systems

3What is the type of the new Nicaraguan sign language?

A.No same signs were used for communication.

B.Most of the gestures were made for everyday activities.

C.The hand movements were smoother and more attractive.

D.The meaning was clearer than the previous sign language.

4Which idea does the author present in the last paragraph?

A.English grammar of past tense system is incorrect.

B.Children say English past tense differently from adults.

C.The thought that English was once a pidgin is acceptable.

D.Experts have proven that English was created by children.

5What is the best title for the passage?

A.The Creators of grammarB.The History of Languages

C.Why Pidgins Came into BeingD.How Grammar Systems Are Used

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