高二英语阅读理解强化训练

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　　阅读理解（共10小题;每小题2分,共20分）

　　A

　　English is fast becoming the language of science around the world, but what is its future among everyday speakers? One expert points out that the percentage(比率) of native English speakers is declining(降低) globally while the languages of other rapidly growing regions are being spoken by increasing numbers of people. But English will continue to remain widespread and important.

　　However, British language scholar David Graddol says English will probably drop in dominance(主导) by the middle of this century to rank, after Chinese, about equally with Arabic, Hindi, and Urdu. “The number of people speaking English as a first language continues to rise, but it isn’t rising nearly as fast as the numbers of many other languages around the world, simply because the main population group has been largely in the less developed countries where languages other than English have been spoken,” he says.

　　In a recent article in the journal Science, Mr. Graddol noted that three languages that are not near the top of the list of the most widely spoken now might be there soon. These are Bengali, Tamil, and Malay, spoken in south and Southeast Asia.

　　David Crystal, the author of the Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, says about 1.5 billion of the world’s six billion people speak it as a second tongue compared to the 400 million native speakers. But another expert on the English language says Mr. Graddol underestimates (低估) the future of its dominance. “Nobody quite knows what’s going to happen because no language has been in this position before. But all the evidence (证据) suggests that the English language snowball is rolling down a hill and is getting faster,” he said.

　　36. In David Graddol’s opinion, English will _______.

　　A. remain widespread and important

　　B. be more important than any other language

　　C. lose its dominant position

　　D. die away in the near future

　　37. The underlined sentence in the last paragraph implies that ______.

　　A. snowballs will roll down faster than language balls

　　B. the English language snowball is rolling down faster than any time in the past

　　C. English language will soon drop in dominance

　　D. more and more language users will choose English

　　38. How many experts does the passage mention who express their ideas about the future of English?

　　A. 2.             B. 3.          C. 4.            D. 5.

　　39. According to David Graddol, which of the following will possibly be one of the languages that will be most widely spoken?

　　A. Malay.    B. Arabic.     C. Urdu.        D. German.

　　40. What should be the best title for the passage?

　　A. English Remaining the Dominant Position

　　B. The Future of English? Who Knows?

　　C. Opinions from Different Experts

　　D. The English Language Snowball Rolling Down

　　B

　　Language learning begins with listening. Children are greatly different in the amount of listening they do before they start speaking, and later starters are often long listeners .Most children will “obey” spoken instructions some time before they can speak, though the word “obey” is hardly accurate as a description of the eager and delighted cooperation usually shown by the child .Before they can speak, many children will also ask questions by gesture and by making questioning noises.

　　Any attempt to study the development from the noises babies make to their first spoken words leads to considerable difficulties. It is agreed that they enjoy making noises, and that during the first few months one or two noises sort themselves as particularly expressive as delight, pain, friendliness, and so on. But since these can’t be said to show the baby’s intention to communicate, they can hardly be regarded as early forms of language. It is agreed, too, that from about three months they play with sounds for enjoyment, and that by six months they are able to add new words to their store. This self-imitation（模仿）leads on to deliberate（有意的）imitation of sounds made or words spoken to them by other people. The problem then arises as to the point at which one can say that these imitations can be considered as speech.

　　It is a problem we need to get out teeth into. The meaning of a word depends on what a particular person means by it in a particular situation and it is clear that what a child means by a word will change as he gains more experience of the world .Thus the use at seven months of “mama” as a greeting for his mother cannot be dismissed as a meaningless sound simply because he also uses it at other times for his father, his dog, or anything else he likes. Playful and meaningless imitation of what other people say continues after the child has begun to speak for himself, I doubt, however whether anything is gained when parents take advantage of this ability in an attempt to teach new sounds.

　　41. Before children start speaking________.

　　A. they need equal amount of listening

　　B. they need different amounts of listening

　　C. they are all eager to cooperate with the adults by obeying spoken instructions

　　D. they can’t understand and obey the adult’s oral instructions

　　42. Children who start speaking late ________.

　　A. may have problems with their listening

　　B. probably do not hear enough language spoken around them

　　C. usually pay close attention to what they hear

　　D. often take a long time in learning to listen properly

　　43. A baby’s first noises are ________.

　　A. an expression of his moods and feelings

　　B. an early form of language

　　C. a sign that he means to tell you something

　　D. an imitation of the speech of adults

　　44. The problem of deciding at what point a baby’s imitations can be considered as speech________.

　　A. is important because words have different meanings for different people

　　B .is not especially important because the changeover takes place gradually

　　C. is one that should be properly understood because the meaning of words changes with age

　　D. is one that should be completely ignored（忽略）because children’s use of words is often meaningless

　　45. The speaker implies________.

　　A. parents can never hope to teach their children new sounds

　　B. children no longer imitate people after they begin to speak

　　C. children who are good at imitating learn new words more quickly

　　D. even after they have learnt to speak, children still enjoy imitating

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