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People have always communicated with     1      the past when they couldn't write, they used simple symbols (記號) to send their messages. Some groups of North America Indians were experts     2     messages. For example, a small stone on top of a large one meant “This is the way. ” If there was another small stone on the right, it meant “Turn right.” Some grass with a knot (結)meant “ Danger”     3     .  

    Maybe you know that in the forests of Africa, it     4     to travel from the village. But drum (鼓)     5      from many kilometers away. So, some groups of Africans made their drums     6     like people. The Incas (印加人)of South America used to send messages by typing knots in a rope. Messages have been found, but     7     can understand     8     they mean. And the Egyptians used picture's as a kind of     9     but only     10     people     11     to understand them.  

    Today, we also use     12     . When we are in a car and we see a red light, we stop the car. When a mother her child. “Eat your cake!” the child eats the cake sometimes. The red light and the words of the mother are     13      it is a     14     that the basic means of communication between people is,of course, sound Maybe you know that there are     15      3,000 languages in the world today. And about 13 of them | are spoken by large groups of people. Languages of the world are both similar (相似的)     16      different. They are similar because we can talk and write about the same things and they are different because we talk and write about these things in     17     ways and we use different     18     .  

    It is     19     that we have to learn a second language ​    20     communicate with people who do not speak our language.

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【回答】

1.C; 2.A; 3.B; 4.C; 5.D; 6.B; 7.D; 8.D; 9.C; 10.D;

11.B; 12.A; 13.D; 14.B; 15.C; 16.C; 17.C; 18.D; 19.A; 20.B

解析：1. C  [提示：each other 與 one another 皆可表達“相互”之意，但each other側重於兩者之間。]

2. A  [提示：be an expert at doing sth.意為“是做某事的專家”。]

3. B  [提示:and so on意為“等等”，而D項應 為and the like才正確。]

4. C  [提示:根據上文“in the forests of Africa”基本常識可知“過去從一個村子到另一個村子是很困難的事”。]

5. D  [提示：根據上文可知指的是過去的情況，故用過去時。]

6. B[提示：當時人們是用鼓來代*“説話” ，故用“speak”。]

7. D[提示：印加人結繩傳遞信息，那是一種不為很多人所知的交流手段，因而很少有人能理解。]

8. D   [提示:what they mean意為“他們的意思是什麼”。]

9. C  [提示:根據下文和基本常識我們知道埃及人是使 用圖片書寫文字。]

10. D  [提示：only a few people = few people]

11. B  [提示: learn應用被動語態而 teach 應用被動語態。]

12. A  [提示：a lot of…=lots of既可修飾可數名詞又可修飾不可數名詞。]

13. D  [提示; 根據上文可知，無論是紅燈還是母親的話語都是 “信息的象徵符號”。]

14. 13  [提示：It is a fact that…意為“事實是...”。]

15. C  [提示：rather than而木是；other than 除了；more than 多於；or rather 更精確 地説，只有more than符合本句句意.故選C。]     

16. C  [提示：both similar and different 意夫“即相似又不同”。]

17. C  [提示：根據上下文可知本句意為“我們用不同的方式談論和寫東西，並且使用不同的語 言。”。]

18. D  [提示：本段主要談論的是語言的交流方式。]

19. A  [提示：It is no wonder that".意為“難怪……”。]

20. B  [提示：後面接的是動詞原形，因而 排除A、C:兩項。而D項應為so as to才對。]

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