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[单项选择]The word "proper" in the first line of the second paragraph means______.
A. small
B. big
C. right
D. wrong
[单项选择]The word "strand"(the first sentence in the second paragraph) is closest in meaning to the word ______.
A. series
B. line
C. error
D. strength
[单项选择]______ taught Helen Keller her first word.
A. her mother
B. her teacher
C. her father
[单项选择]According to the second paragraph, a baby's first noises are _______.
A. a sign that he means to tell you something
B. a reflection of his moods and feelings
C. an imitation of the spoken of adults
D. an early form of language
[单项选择]By mentioning one's first-or second-grade teacher, the author intends to convey an idea that
[单项选择]In the second paragraph the word "paramagnetic" means ______.
A. slightly magnetic
B. a weak magnetic field
C. a strong magnetic substance
D. the under-water magnetic power
[单项选择]The second sentence in the first paragraph intends to render the idea that______.
A. distractions will render communication unlikely to happen
B. attention to the audience in public speech is most important
C. it takes great effort to overcome any distraction in public communication
D. it is impossible to communicate when the audience are distracted from the speech
[单项选择]In the first paragraph the underlined word "inhabitants" probably means ______.
A. tourists
B. passengers
C. population
D. citizens
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Passage One
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
A. a legend handed down from the past
B. a matter that is hidden or secret
C. a question difficult to answer
D. a problem not yet solved
