As we all know, language is always changing. In a society where life continues year after year with few changes, the language does not change either. The earliest known languages had difficult grammar but a small, limited vocabulary. Over the century, the grammar changed, and the vocabulary grew. For example, the English and Spanish people who came to America during the sixteenth century gave names to all the new plants and animals they found. In this way, hundreds of new words were introduced into English and Spanish vocabularies. Today life is changing very fast, and language is changing fast too.
There are several major(主要) language families in the world. Some scientists say there are nine main families, but other scientists divide them differently. The languages in each family are connected, and scientists think that they came from the same parent language. About 3 percent of the people in the world speak languages that are not in these major families.
1.The early language had ________.
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A．a lot of problems |
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B．words and easy grammar |
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C．words but no grammar |
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D．grammar but not many words |
2.In the next few hundred years we can expect language to _____.
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A．stay exactly the same |
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B．change a great deal |
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C．change only a little |
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D．ask more words and drop some grammar |
3.What this article shows is that _____.
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A．languages change fast |
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B．languages really don't want to change |
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C．language really with changes in society |
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D．Spanish and English change |
To this day,I still remember the first day of classes exactly 30 years ago. I _16_ in Dr Charles E. Offutt’s British literature class，listening to him _17_ what his seniors would learn and get them excited about the journey they would __18__ .I’m the principal(校长) of the school now，but for a few minutes I was back in 1975，__19__ what the future held.
I have been learning from Dr Offutt for 30 of the 51 years he has been teaching at DeMatha. he not only taught me to think，he _20_ me，as much by example as _21__，that it was my moral duty to do so and to serve __22_ .
Neither of us could know how our _23_ would develop over the years. When I first came back to DeMatha to teach English，I worked for Dr Offutt，then the department chair. After several years，I was _24__ department chair，and our relationship changed __25__. I thought that it might be __26__chairing the department，since all of my former English teachers were still there，but Dr Offutt _27__ me throughout. he knew when to give me _28__ about curriculum(课程)，texts and personnel，and when to let me design my own course.
In 1997，I needed his advice about leaving DeMatha to become principal at another school. If he had asked me to stay at DeMatha，I might have. _29_，he encouraged me to seize the new __30_ .
Five years ago,I became the__31_ of DeMatha. Once again, Dr Offutt was there for me,Letting me know that I could__32_ on him as I tried to fill such big shoes.I’ve learned that great teachers have a (an)___33__wealth of lessons to teach __34_ his students don’t know it yet.I know how __35_ they are.I’m still one of them.
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Throughout the week, the boy _____most of the work in the manager’s office．
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A．took on |
B．took off |
C．took in |
D．took over |
We are taking action, but how effective it will remain _______.
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A．to see |
B．to be seen |
C．seeing |
D．seen |
We arrived at a farmhouse, in front of ______.
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A．it sat a small |
B．which a small boy sat there |
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C．which sat a small boy |
D．it was a small boy |
With larger numbers of undergraduates than ever before, just having a degree will no longer be enough to make you ___ from the crowd.
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A．stand up |
B．stand by |
C．stand for |
D．stand out |
