Question

                The guy who tried to edit English 

   The English vocabulary is not only huge,it's also fiill of words that mean practically the same thing. Get,obtain,acquire. Shine,gleam,glow,sparkle. 36 

   That was the thinking of a British writer named C. K. Ogden,who in the 1930s proposed(提议) a new form of English with a vocabulary of just 850 words. He called the project Basic English. 37 

   Ogden arrived at his 850-word list through experimentation,rephrasing texts over and over until he was satisfied. The words he finally included were not necessarily the shortest or most concrete. 38 Because any verbal idea could be expressed with a small number of “operators” — words like come,go, get,take,have,make,be, and do — Ogden argued that most verbs were unnecessary. In Basic English, eat is “have a meal." is “go from memory."

   Winston Churchill was a fan of the concept as a way to get foreigners to speak English,and he encouraged the BBC to use it. 39 Roosevelt,who expressed mild interest,joked that Churchill's famous speech about offering his “blood,toil,tears,and sweat” to his country wouldn’t have been so exciting if he “had been able to offer the British people only blood,work,eye water,and face water,which I understand is the best that Basic English can do with five famous words."

   40 Churchill didn't use it either. When seeking to express ourselves,we don't necessarily need fewer words; we need the right words. So it's to our benefit to have a large supply on hand.

   A. Do we really need them all?

   B. How many words are there in English?

   C. Ogden himself didn't actually use Basic English.

   D. Plenty of seemingly basic words did not make the list at all.

   E. He also tried to persuade President Franklin Roosevelt to promote it.

   F. He believed it would make the language more efficient and easier to learn.

   G. Despite attention from world leaders,Basic English never got very far off the drawing board.

Answer 1

话题:语言学习

本文是说明文.文章介绍了由奥格登创造出来的一种简化英语——基本英语。

36. A.第一段讲到英语的词汇量很大且有很多同 义词，第二段提到 That was the thinking of a British writer及奥格登将英语词汇量减到850个 可知，此处应该是问“我们确实需要那么多词汇 吗”。

37. F。奥格登之所以创造基本英语是因为他觉得 这样英语更容易学。

38. D.根据上文的 were not necessarily the shortest or most concrete及下文举的例子可知，很多基 础的词汇并没有出现在基本英语中。

39. E。由下文的 Roosevelt^ who expressed mild interest可知，此处是说丘吉尔也试图说服罗斯 福总统推广基本英语。

40. C。根据下文的 Churchill didn’t use it either 可知，“奥格登并没有真正使用基本英语”符合语境。