2018年成人英语三级考前预测试题（3）

　　二、阅读理解(11-30)

　　No one knows how man learned to make words. Perhaps he began by making sounds like

　　those made by animals. Perhaps he granted like a pig when he lifted something heavy. Perhaps he made sounds like those he heard all round him water splashing, bees humming, a stone falling to the ground. Somehow he learned to make words. As the centuries went by, he made more and more new words. This is what we mean by language.

　　People living in different countries made different kinds of words. Today there are about fif-teen hundred different languages in the world. Each contains many thousands of words. A very large English dictionary, for example, contains four or five hundred thousand words. But we do not need all these. Only a few thousand words are used in everyday life.

　　The words you know are called your vocabulary. You should try to make your vocabulary big-ger. Read as many books as you can. There are plenty of books written in easy English for you toread. You will enjoy them. When you meet a new word, find it in your dictionary. Your dictiona-ry is your most useful book.

　　11. From this passage, we know that__________.

　　A. man never made sounds

　　B. man made animal sounds

　　C. man used to be like animals to make sounds

　　D. man learned from the animals to make sounds

　　答案：C

　　12. The number of different languages spoken is about__________.

　　A. 150

　　B. 1,500

　　C. 5,000

　　D. 4.,000

　　答案：B

　　13. People from different countries__________.

　　A. made same words

　　B. made different kinds of words

　　C. had a same language

　　D. used some sounds

　　答案：B

　　14. Man __________ to make sounds.

　　A. used words

　　B. followed many things in nature

　　C. lifted heavy things

　　D. grunted like a pig

　　答案：B

　　15. You can enlarge your vocabulary by

　　A. reading more books

　　B. finding new words in dictionaries

　　C. writing more

　　D. using the words in everyday life

　　答案：A

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