AEIS考试模拟题：阅读理解（一）

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　　It is said that a great many things about languages are mysterious, and many will always be so. But some things we do know.

　　Firstly, we know that all human beings have a language of some kind. There is no race of men anywhere on earth so backward that it has no language, no set of speech sounds by which the people communicate with one another. In historical times, there has never been a race of men without a language.

　　Secondly, there is no such thing as a primitive language. There are many people whose cultures are underdeveloped, who are, as we say, uncivilized, but the languages they speak are not primitive. In all known languages we can see complexities that must have been tens of thousands of years in developing.

　　This has not always been well understood; indeed, the direct contrary has often stated. Popular ideas of the language of the American Indians will illustrate. Many people have guessed that the Indians communicated in a very primitive system of noises. Study has proved this to be nonsense. There are, or were, hundreds of American Indian languages, and all of them turn out to be very complicated and very old. They are certainly different from the languages that most of us are familiar with, but they are no more primitive than English and Greek.

　　A third thing we know about language is that all languages are perfectly adequate. This is, each one is a perfect means of expressing the culture of the people who speak the language.

　　Finally, we know that language changes. It's natural and normal for language to change; the only languages which do not change are the dead ones. This is easy to understand if we look backward in time. Change goes on in all aspects of language. Grammatical features change as do speech sounds and changes in vocabulary are sometimes very extensive and may occur very rapidly. Vocabulary is the least stable part of any language.

　　1. In the 2nd paragraph the author thinks about that ________.

　　A. some backward races don't have a language of their own

　　B. some races in history didn't possess a language of their own

　　C. any human race, whether backward or not, has a language

　　D. some races on earth can communicate without a language

　　2. As the author says, people of underdeveloped cultures can have ________ languages.

　　A. complicated B. uncivilized

　　C. primitive D. well­known

　　3. The author uses American Indian languages as an example to prove that they are ________.

　　A. just as fully developed as some well­known languages

　　B. more developed than some well­known languages

　　C. more complex than some well­known languages

　　D. just as old as some well­known languages

　　4. According to the author, language changes are most likely to appear in ________.

　　A. grammar B. vocabulary

　　C. intonation D. pronunciation

　　参考答案:

　　1，解析：选C。事实细节题。根据第二段最后一句，可以知道C项正确。

　　2，解析：选A。事实细节题。根据第三段最后一句，可以判断应选A项。

　　3，解析：选A。推理判断题。根据第四段结尾给出的结论“...but they are no more primitive than English and Greek.”可以知道：这些语言并不比今天的英语、希腊语原始。因此可以判断A项是正确的。

　　4，解析：选B。事实细节题。最后一段最后一句“Vocabulary is the least stable part of any language.”告诉我们B项是正确答案。

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