2014年成人学位英语模拟试题及答案（7）
ⅠReading Comprehension
Passage 1
Languages are marvelously complex and wonderfully complicated organs of culture. They embody the quickest and the most efficient means of communicating within their respective culture. To learn a foreign language is to learn another culture. In the words of a poet and philosopher, “As many languages as one speaks, so many lives one lives.” A culture and its languages are as inseparable as brain and body; while one is a part of the other, neither can function without the other. In learning a foreign language, the best beginning is with the non-verbal linguistic elements of the language, its gestures, its body language. Eye contact is extremely important in English. Direct eye contact leads to understanding, or, as the English maxim (格言) has it, seeing eye-to-eye. We can never see eye-to-eye with a native speaker of English until we have learned to look directly into his eyes.
1. The best title for this passage is ________.
A. Organs of Culture B. Brain and Body
C. Seeing Eye-to-Eye D. Non-Verbal Linguistic Elements
2. According to this passage, the best way to learn a foreign language is ________.
A. to read the works of poets and philosophers
B. to find a native speaker and look directly into his eyes
C. to begin by learning its body language
D. to visit a country where English is spoken
3. According to this passage, gestures are ________.
A. non-verbal as well as non-linguistic
B. verbal and linguistic
C. non-verbal but nevertheless linguistic
D. verbal but nevertheless non-linguistic
4. “As many languages as one speaks, so many lives” means ________.
A. if one leans many foreign languages, one will have a better understanding of his own language
life is richer and more interesting if one knows several languages
no matter how many languages one knows, one can never know more than one’s own culture
if a person speaks only one language, he will live a very happy life
5. One of the following which is not synonymous with the others is _______.
A. signs B. gestures C. maxims D. body language
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