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 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 ex press thoughts and feelings, actions and things, so that they could communicate with each other; and that later they agreed 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. There 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. Great writers are those who not only have great thoughts but also express these thoughts in words which appeal powerfully to our minds and e
A. The more we read and learn, the more ignorant we are.
B. The more we read and learn, the more confused we are.
C. The more we read and learn, the more learned we are.
D. The more we read and learn, the more snobbish we become.

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 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 ex press thoughts and feelings, actions and things, so that they could communicate with each other; and that later they agreed 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. There 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. Great writers are those who not only have great thoughts but also express these thoughts in words which appeal powerfully to our minds and e
A. they could agree upon certain signs
B. they could write them down
C. they could communicate with each other
D. they could combine them

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 We have no idea about when men first began to use salt, but we do know that it has been used in many different ways throughout the history. For example, it is recorded in many history books the people who lived over three thousand years ago ate salted fish. Thousands of years ago in Egypt, salt was used to preserve the dead. In some periods of history, a person who stole salt was thought to have broken the law. Take the eighteenth century for an example, if a person was caught stealing salt, he would be thrown into prison. History also records that only in England about ten thousand people were put into prison during that century for stealing salt! About one hundred and fifty years ago, in the year 1553, if a man took more than his share of salt, he would be thought to have broken the law and would be seriously punished. The offender’ s ear was cut off. Salt was an important item on the dinner table of a king. It was always placed in front of the king when he sat down
A. to punish people who had broken the law
B. to keep dead bodies from decay
C. to keep fish alive
D. to make chemicals

[单项选择]How many men have been nominated for best screenwriter in the history of Academy A wards
A. 16.
B. 146.
C. 162.
D. 130.

[单项选择]The first white men to visit Samoa found people who ______.
A. were not entirely blind
B. described things by touching them
C. could see with their hands
D. could see when they hold out their hands

[单项选择]The first men to study the nature of electricity could not imagine that their experiments, carried on because of mere intellectual curiosity, would eventually lead to modern electrical technology, without which we can scarcely______contemporary life.
A. get hold of
B. conceive of
C. get the better of
D. take advantage of

[单项选择]The men who first made use of meteoritic metal were ______.
A. small isolated tribes
B. those who did not revere meteorites
C. nineteenth century scientists
D. warriors

[单项选择]When the First Civil War broke out（）men were at Charles I.s command.
A. 1，000
B. 2，000
C. 3，000
D. 4，000

[单项选择]How did Dorothea Dix first realize the mistreatment of insane people
A. Her grandmother treated the mistreatment of insane people.
B. She worked in an insane hospital as a young woman.
C. She taught Sunday school in a prison.
D. She was asked to investigate the problem.

[填空题]（）,is the study of how words combine to form sentences and the rules which govern the formation of sentences.

[单项选择]I don't know how to remember new words. Can you give me ______

[单项选择]How long did Charles Darwin spend on his first sea voyage in Beagle
A. Five years.
B. One year.
C. Five months.
D. One month.