2011年湖北成人学位英语考试真题及答案（文字版）
Passage 4
Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage:
No one knows how man learned to make words.Perhaps he began by making sounds like those made by animals.Perhaps he grunted like a pig when he lifted something heavy.Perhaps he made sounds like those he heard all round him--water splashing, bees humming, a stone falling to the ground.Somehow he learned to make words. As the centuries went by, he made more and more new words. This is what we mean by language.
People living in different countries made different kinds of words. Today there are about fifteen hundred different languages in theworld. Each contains many thousands of words. A very large English dictionary, for example, contains four or five hundred thousand words. But we do not need all these. Only a few thousand words are used in everyday life.
The words you know are called your vocabulary. You should try to make your vocabulary bigger. Read as many books as you can.There are plenty of books written in easy English for you to read.You will enjoy them.When you meet a new word, find it in your dictionary.Your dictionary is your most useful book.
36.From this passage, we know that ( ).
A.man never made sounds
B.man made animal sounds
C.man used to be like animals to make sounds
D.man learned from the animals to make sounds
37.The number of different languages spoken is about ( ).
A. 150
B. 1,500
C.5,000
D.4, 000
38.People from different countries ( ).
A.made same words
B.made different kinds of words
C.had a same language
D.used some sounds
39.Man ( )to make sounds.
A.used words
B.followed xnany things in nature
C.lifted heavy things
D.grunted like a pig
40.You can enlarge your vocabulary by ( ).
A.reading more books
B.finding new words in dictionaries
C.writing more
D.using the words in everyday life
Part m Cloze ( 10 points)
Directions: There are 10 blanks in the following passage, For each blank there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. You should choose the ONE answer that best fits into the passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet One with a pencil.
Can you imagine how you would feel if you fell dangerously ill and could not reach or Call a doctor.?
Millions of people 41 the world are in this unfortunate 42 , living in distant places where there are no railways, no proper roads and no telephones.Thousands of lives are lost every year which could have been saved if medical attention 43 in time.
But today help could be brought quickly and easily to many of these people if only full advantage was taken of the aeroplane. 44 country has proved this better than Australia.The Australians 45 greater use of the aeroplane than any 46 people in the world.In no other country 47 the total number of miles flown by the average person so high. In fact, it has been 48 that Australians jump into plane 49 people in other countries jump into trains and buses. It is not surprising, therefore , that Australia should have been the first country 50 a Flying Doctor Service.
41.A.on
B.through
C.all over
D.within
42. A. society
B. world
C. way
D. position
43.A.had been provided
B.had been paid more
C.was given
D.was provided
44. A. One
B. Any
C. Not
D. No
45.A.made
B.did
C.were making
D.make