成人英语三级

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Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passages:

How men first learned to invent words is unknown. In other words, the origin of language is a mystery. All we really know is that men, unlike animals, somehow invented certain sounds to express thoughts and feelings, actions and thing, so that they could communicate with each other; and that later they agree upon certain signs, called letters which could be combined to represent those sounds, and which could be written down, Those sounds, whether spoken or written in letters, we call words.

The power of words, then, lies in their associations --- the things they bring up before our minds. Words become filled with meaning for us by experience; and the longer we live, the more certain words recall to us the glad and sad events of our past; and the more we read and learn, the more the number of words that mean something to us increases.

1. How language began is ______.

A. a legend handed down from the past

B. a matter that is hidden and secret

C. a question difficult to answer

D. a problem not yet solved

2. Why men invented certain sounds to express thoughts and actions was that ______.

A. they could agree upon certain things.

B. They could communicate with each other

C. They could write them down

D. They could combine them

3. The meaning of words comes from their ______.

A. letters

B. differences

C. sounds

D. associations

4. By “association”, the author means ______.

A. a joining of ideas in the mind

B. a special quality

C. a strange feature

D. an appearance which is puzzling

5. Which of the following statements is true?

A. The more we read and learn, the more ignorant we are.

B. The more we read and learn, the more sensitive we become.

C. The more we read and learn, the more learned we are.

D. The more we read and learn, the more confused we will be.

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