[单项选择]The English vocabulary is known for a(n) ______ of words which are comparatively seldom used in ordinary conversations.
A. multitude
B. altitude
C. latitude
D. platitude

[单项选择]The English vocabulary is known for a (n)______of words which are compara tively seldom used in ordinary conversations.
A. multitude
B. altitude
C. latitude
D. platitude

[单项选择]The English vocabulary is known for a (an) ______ of words which are comparatively seldom used in ordinary conversations.
A. multitude
B. altitude
C. latitude
D. platitude

[单项选择]The English vocabulary is known for a(an) ______ of words which are comparatively seldom used in ordinary conversations.
A. multitude
B. altitude
C. latitude
D. platitude

[单项选择]They teach the vocabulary of the English used in computer science, which is also listed ______ in the glossary.
A. in sum
B. in total
C. in general
D. in full

[单项选择]The development of English vocabulary can be divided into the following particular historical period EXCEPT ______. ( )
A. Old English
B. Middle English
C. New English
D. Modern English

[单项选择]Statistics show that English has a vocabulary of about ______.
A. 500,000 words
B. 750,000 words
C. 350,000 words
D. 1,000,000 words

[单项选择]—English has a large vocabulary, hasn't it
—Yes. ______ more words and expressions and you will find it easier to read and communicate.


A. Know
B. Knowing
C. To know
D. Known

[单项选择]Old English has a vocabulary of about ______ words.


A. 30,000 to 40,000
B. 50,000to 60,000
C. 70,000to 80,000
D. 80,000 to 90,000

[单项选择]—English has a large vocabulary, hasn't it
—Yes. （　） more words and expressions and you will find it easier to read and communicate.
A. Know
B. Knowing
C. To know
D. Known

[单项选择]

The exact number of English words in not known. The large dictionaries have over half a million entries, but many of these are compound words (schoolroom, sugarbowl) or different derivatives of the same word, and a good many are obsolete words to help us read older literature. Dictionaries do not attempt to cover completely words that we can draw on; the informal vocabulary, especially slang, localism, the terms of various occupations and professions, words used only occasionally by scientists and specialists in many fields, foreign words borrowed for use in English, or many new words or new senses of words that come into use every year and that may or may not be used long enough to warrant being included. It would be conservative to say that there are over a millon English words that any of us might meet in our listening and reading and that we may draw on in our speaking and listening.
Professor Seashore concluded that first-graders enter school with at least 24 000 wor
A. no longer in use
B. profound
C. colorful or amusing
D. common