It’s desired especially this year that this rule _______be brought to the attention of all the teachers.
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A．should |
B．would |
C．might |
D．could |
It has been evident that too many children in the city are left ________ when their development requires parents’ close attention.
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A．alone |
B．off |
C．out |
D．behind |
The pavements are designed to provide easy access for the blind to _______conveniently, which is bound to_______ active effects on people’s opinion on the government’s performance.
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A．walk ; produce |
B．walking ; producing |
C．walk ; producing |
D．walking ; produce |
---- You’ve done very well. It’s a pity you missed the sports meeting last week.
---- Yes, it was a real pity! _______, I’m feeling better now.
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A．Never mind |
B．You’re so kind |
C．Take it easy |
D．That’s life |
Speech—the act of uttering sounds to convey meaning—is a kind of human action. Like any other constantly repeated action, speaking has to be learned, but once it is learned, it becomes a generally unconscious and apparently automatic process.
As far as we can determine, human beings do not need to be forced to speak; most babies seem to possess a sort of instinctive drive to produce speech like noises. How to speak and what to say are another matter altogether. There actions are learned from the particular society into which the baby is born; so that, like all conduct that is learned from a society—from the people around us—speech is a patterned activity.
The meandering(漫目无地的)babble(咿呀学语)and chatter of a young child are eventually channeled by imitation into a few orderly grooves that represent the pattern accepted as meaningful by the people around him. Similarly, a child’s indiscriminate(不加分辨的)practice of putting things into his mouth becomes limited to putting food into his mouth in a certain way.
The sounds that a child can make are more varied and numerous than the sounds that any particular language uses. However, a child born into a society with a pattern of language is encouraged to make a small selection of sounds and to make these few sounds over and over until it is natural for him to make these sounds and not others.
1.For an adult, the process of speaking usually involves___________________ .
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A．conscious selection of sounds |
B．imitation of those around him |
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C．a drive to make noises |
D．unconscious actions |
2.The selection says that most babies have an instinctive drive to __________ .
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A．express ideas in words |
B．make speech like noise |
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C．convey meaning |
D．imitate sounds around them |
3.Conduct that is learned from a society may be called___________________ .
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A．instinctive drive |
B．selection |
C．automatic activity |
D．patterned activity |
4.The sounds that a child is able to make are ___________________ . .
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A．not as varied as those used in language |
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B．more varied and numerous than those in any language |
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C．far fewer than those needed to form a language |
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D．completely different from the sounds of language |
5.We may say that a child has learned to speak if he ___________________ . .
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A．makes varied sounds |
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B．carefully considers each sound he makes |
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C．makes only certain sounds naturally |
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D．imitates people around him |
Tea drinking was common in China for nearly one thousand years before anyone in Europe had ever heard about tea．People in Britain were much slower in finding out what tea was like, mainly because tea was very expensive. It could not be bought in shops and even those people who could afford to have it sent from Holland did so only because it was a fashionable curiosity. Some of them were not sure how to use it. They thought it was a vegetable and tried cooking the leaves. Then they served them mixed with butter and salt. They soon discovered their mistake but many people used to spread the used tea leaves on bread and give them to their children as sandwiches.
Tea remained scarce and very expensive in England until the ships of the East India Company began to bring it direct from China early in the seventeenth century. During the next few years so much tea came into the country that the price fell and many people could afford to buy it.
At the same time people on the Continent were becoming more and more fond of tea．Until then tea had been drunk without milk in it, but one day a famous French lady named Madame de Sevigne decided to see what tea tasted like when milk was added．She found it so pleasant that she would never again drink it without milk. Because she was such a great lady her friends thought they must copy everything she did, so they also drank their tea with milk in it. Slowly this habit spread until it reached England and today only very few Britons drink tea without milk.
At first, tea was usually drunk after dinner in the evening No one ever thought of drinking tea in the afternoon until a duchess (公爵夫人) found that a cup of tea and a piece of cake at three or four o’clock stopped her getting “a sinking feeling” as she called it. She invited her friends to have this new meal with her and so, tea-time was born.
1.Which of the following is true of the introduction of tea into Britain?
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A．The Britons got expensive tea from India. |
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B．Tea reached Britain from Holland. |
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C．The Britons were the first people in Europe who drank tea. |
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D．It was not until the 17th century that the Britons had tea. |
2.This passage mainly discusses_____________.
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A．the history of tea drinking in Britain |
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B．how tea became a popular drink in Britain |
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C．how the Britons got the habit of drinking tea |
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D．how tea-time was born |
3.Tea became a popular drink in Britain_____________.
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A．in eighteenth century |
B．in sixteenth century |
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C．in seventeenth century |
D．in the late seventeenth century |
4.People in Europe began to drink tea with milk because_____________.
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A．it tasted like milk |
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B．it tasted more pleasant |
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C．it became a popular drink |
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D．Madame de Sevigne was such a lady with great social influence that people tried to copy the way she drank tea |
5.We may infer from the passage that the habit of drinking tea in Britain was mostly
due to the influence of ________.
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A．a famous French lady |
B．the ancient Chinese |
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C．the upper social class |
D．people in Holland |
