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模块练测卷（二）
Ⅰ. 单项选择
1. I wonder what difficulty he had ______ Chinese. A. learned B. learning C. to learn D. with learning
2. The capital of Scotland is known ______ the Athens of the North. A. for B. by C. as D. with
3. The average adult in our city consumes a lot of salt a day, twice more than ______ our body needs. A. as many B. what C. of that D. as much
4. He tried many times to sneak（潜逃） across the border to the neighbouring country, ______ each time.
A. having been caught B. unfortunately caught C. always being caught D. only to be caught 5. The money he spends every month ______ about 100 yuan.
A. adds up to B. adds up C. adds D. adds to 6. —Where would you like to have your dinner, in a French restaurant or a Chinese one? —It ______ to me. A. is not different
B. makes not a difference C. is not a difference D. makes no difference
7. The country life he was used to ______ greatly since 1992. A. change B. has changed C. changing D. had changed
8. What he said suggested that he ______ what happened last night. A. know B. should know C. knew D. have known
9. Mr White as well as his wife and children ______ a number of cities in the past few years. A. have traveled B. had traveled C. traveled D. has traveled
10. ______ his writing with his listening, we find he is
better at his writing. A. Compare B. Compared C. Comparing D. Being compared
11. If you can’t work out the problem, ______ the last page of the book. A. refer to B. look up C. search for D. find out
12. More efforts should be ______ to make our country stronger. A. done B. attempted C. made D. tried
13. American English and British English have a lot ______ each other. A. to common with B. in common with C. commonly for
D. for common between
14. ______ my teacher, I’m becoming more and more interested in English. A. Thank to B. Thanks for C. Thanks to D. Thanking for
15. She went back to the same hall ______ she had lost her necklace. A. as B. that C. where D. at which Ⅱ. 阅读理解
A
Throughout history, people have been interested in knowing how language first began, but no one knows exactly where or how this happened. However, we do know a lot about languages, the languages of today and also the languages of earlier times. There are probably about three thousand languages in the world today. Chinese is the language with most speakers. English, Russian and Spanish are also spoken by many millions of people. On the other hand, some languages in the world have less than one hundred speakers.
There are several important families of languages
in the world. For example, most of the languages of Europe are in one large family called Indo-European. The original（最初的） language of this family was spoken about 4,500 years ago. Many of the present-day languages of Europe and India are modern forms of the language of 4,500 years ago. Languages are always changing. The English of today is very different from the English of 500 years ago. In time, some even die out completely. About 1,000 years ago English was a little-known relative of C. Chinese is a very old language
D. there are great differences between the old Chinese and the present-day Chinese 20. ______ seems to have changed a lot. A. Chinese B. English C. Spanish D. German
B
Some English words are made up of the same part and have different beginnings and different endings, such as import, export and transport. All these words, German spoken on one of the borders of Europe.
If a language has a large number of speakers, or if it is very old, there may be differences in the way it is spoken in different areas. That is, the language may have several dialects. Chinese is a good example of dialect differences. Chinese has been spoken for thousands of years by many millions of speakers. The differences between the dialects of Chinese are so great that speakers of Chinese from some parts of China cannot understand speakers from other parts. 16. The first paragraph mainly tells us that ______. A. most people in the world speak Chinese B. there are thousands of languages in today’s
world
C. man has much knowledge about languages D. some people know several languages
17. Most European and Indian languages ______. A. will soon die out completely B. were once a relative of English C. are no longer spoken
D. come from the same family
18. The underlined word “dialect” in the last paragraph means ______.
A. a special language spoken by Chinese
B. the sign used by Chinese people in a special area
C. The difference between the old and today’s Chinese
D. the form of a language used in one part of the country
19. It is considered a most difficult thing for one to learn to speak Chinese because ______. A. there are great differences between the dialects of Chinese
B. Chinese and many foreign languages are not of the same family
you can see, have the same root “port”, which comes from the Latin word meaning “to carry” or “to move” from one place to another. And according to the bit at the beginning—which we call the prefix（前缀）—the meaning changes. “Import” means “to carry in” or “to bring into a country”; “ex” means “out of”, so the word “export” means “to carry out of a country”; “re” means “back”, so the word “report” means “to tell somebody, to bring back information to somebody”; “transport”, “trans-” means “to carry across one place to another”.
Let’s look at the following words：supporter, reporter, importer and exporter. You can see that in this case, these words are nouns which are made up of the words with a suffix（后缀）, thus meaning a person that completes the verb. So a supporter means somebody who supports. A reporter is somebody who reports. An importer is somebody who imports and an exporter is somebody who exports and so on.
21. In the sentence “Some English words are made up of the same part”, “part” means ______. A. different beginnings and different endings B. the same part which has several meanings C. the root of a word
D. the same root which has different meanings 22. Which of the following is NOT true?
A. Apart from “port”, most English words have the same root which comes from the Latin word. B. “Port” is a root forming some English words. C. The root “port” means “to carry”.
D. “Port” is a root meaning “to move” from one place to another.
23. By adding a prefix or a suffix to a root, we can get a word which has ______. A. the meaning of a Latin word
B. a different meaning
C. the meaning of “in” or “out of” D. a lot of meanings
24. According to the passage, if we talk about a repairman, you may guess/know that he must be A. Foreign students have more problems. B. There are many ways to improve English. C. Teaching should meet students’ needs.
D. English learning problems should be studied
again.
______.
A. somebody who has regained health B. a person who can repair something C. somebody who has good health
D. a person who can do only simple things
25. According to the passage, adding a prefix to a word can ______.
A. change the meaning of the word B. not change anything
C. change the part of speech D. change the word into a verb
C
A study of English learning problems was carried out among a total of 106 foreign students. It shows that most students considered understanding spoken English to be their biggest problem on arrival. This was followed by speaking. Writing increased as a problem as students discovered difficulties in writing papers that they were now expected to hand in. Reading remained as a significant（显著的） problem. The information gained helped us in determining where special attention should be paid in our course. Although many students have chosen to join the course with a reasonable motivation（动机）, we considered it important to note what seemed to encourage interest. Nearly all the students have experienced some kind of grammar-based English teaching in their own country. To use the same method would be self-defeating because it might reduce motivation, especially if it has failed in the past. Therefore a different method may help because it is different.
Variety of activity was also seen as a way of maintaining（保持） or increasing motivation. Several years ago we had one timetable that operated throughout, but we soon found that both the students and teachers lost interest by about halfway through the ten weeks. This led up to a major rethink, so finally we brought it into line with the expressed language needs of the students. 26. What is the text mainly about?
27. Writing became a bigger problem when foreign students ______.
A. had to write their papers B. became better at speaking
C. became less interested in reading D. had fewer problems with listening
28. We may infer from the last two paragraphs that ______.
A. different teaching methods should be used B. grammar-based teaching seems to be
encouraging
C. English courses are necessary for foreign students.
D. teaching content should be changed halfway 29. The word “it” underlined in the last paragraph refers to ______. A. rethink B. activity C. motivation D. timetable 30. The best title of the passage is ______. A. Learning English B. English Learning Problems C. Motivation—the Key to Improving English D. How to Learn English
D
As the English language has changed at a fast speed in this century, so has the use of the English language.
After the British Broadcasting Corporation（BBC） was founded in 1927, the particular style of speech of the BBC announcers was recognized as Standard English or Received Pronunciation（RP） English. Now, most people still consider that the pronunciation and delivery of BBC announcers is the clearest and most understandable spoken English.
English has had a strong relationship with class and social position. However, since the Second World War there has been a clear change of attitude towards speech snobbery, and hallmarks of class distinction, such as styles of speech have been gradually got rid of, especially by the younger generation.
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