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[单项选择]If we classify English words by use frequency, the two types of words are （）
A. the basic word stock and nonbasic vocabulary
B. content words and functional words
C. native words and borrowed words
D. functional words and notional words

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[单项选择]The name Australia comes from the Latin words meaning_____.
A. happy land B. southern land C. big land D. rich land

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[单项选择]English words are not always spelled （　）.
A. in the way they sound
B. in the way of their sounds
C. as they' re sounding
D. the way they sound

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[单项选择]The most often used English words to show good manners are ______.

A. Hi, Thank you and Bye
B. Please, Thank you and OK
C. Hello, Bye and Thank you
D. Thank you, Sorry and Please

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[单项选择]English words are not always spelt ______.
A. as the way they sound
B. the way that they sound
C. the way they sound
D. they sound

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[填空题]The English speaking people use the word “chicken” metaphorically to refer to a ______.

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[单项选择]E The most frightening words in the English language are, “Our computer is down.” You hear it more and more when you are on business. The other day I was at the airport waiting for a ticket to Washington and the girl in the ticket office said, “I’m sorry, I can’t sell you a ticket. Our computer is down.” “If your computer is down, just write me out a ticket.” “I can’t write you out a ticket. The computer is the only one allowed to do so.” I looked down on the computer and every passenger was just standing there drinking coffee and staring at the black screen. Then I asked her, “What do all you people do” “We give the computer the information about your trip, and then it tells us whether you can fly with us or not.” “So when it goes down, you go down with it.” “That’s good, sir.” “How long will the computer be down” I wanted to know. “I have no idea. Sometimes it’s down for 10 minutes, sometimes for two hours. There’s no way we can find out
A. When the Computer Is Down
B. The Most Frightening Words
C. The Computer of the Airport
D. Asking the Computer

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We use both words and gestures to express our feeling, but the problem is that these words and gestures can be understood in different ways.
It is true that a smile means the thing in any language. So does laughter or crying. There are also a number of striking similarities in the way different animals show the same feelings. Dogs, tigers and humans, for example, often show their teeth when they are angry. This is probably because they are born with those behavior patterns.
Fear is another emotion that is shown in much the same way all over the world. In Chinese and in English literature, a phrase like “he goes pale and begins to tremble” suggests that the man is either very afraid or he has just got a very big shock. However, “he opens his eyes wide” is used to suggest anger in Chinese whereas in En
A. we can hardly understand what people’s gestures mean
B. we cannot often be sure what people mean when they describe their feelings in words or gestures
C. words can be better understood by older people
D. gestures can be understood by most of the people while words cannot

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[单项选择]The passage has discussed the rise in English use on the Continent from the following perspectives EXCEPT

A. economics.
B. national security.
C. the emergence of the Internet.
D. the changing functions of the European Community.

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[单项选择]To English travelers in Italy, the use of forks seems ______.

A. necessary
B. unnecessary
C. very foolish
D. very clever

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[多项选择]English words borrowed from Latin are normally used in ______ contexts. (　　　)
A. informal
B. academic
C. religious
D. intimate

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B. academic
C. religious
D. intimate