2015年成人學位英語模擬試題及答案（4）
Passage 2
Questions 6 to 10 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. (78)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 the world. 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.
6. 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
7. The number of different languages spoken is about
A. 150
B. 1,500
C. 5,000
D. 4,000
8. People from different countries
A. made same words
B. made different kinds of words
C. had a same language
D. used some sounds
9. Man to make sounds.
A. used words
B. followed many things in nature
C. lifted heavy things
D. grunted like a pig
10. 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
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