完形填空

Directions: For each numbered blank in the following passage, there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best one and mark your answer on ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center.


How men first learned to invent words is unknown; in other words, the origin of language is a mystery. All we really know is that men, unlike animals, somehow invented certain 【A1】______ to express thoughts and feelings, actions and things, 【A2】______ they could communicate with each other; and that later they agreed【A3】______ certain signs, called letters, which could be written to represent those sounds, and which could be 【A4】______. Those sounds, whether spoken, or written in letters, we call words.

The power of words, then, lies in their 【A5】______—the things they bring up before our minds. Words become 【A6】______ with meaning for us by experience;【A7】______ the longer we live, the more certain words 【A8】______ to us the happy and sad events of our past: and the more we【A9】______, the more the number of words that mean something to us 【A10】______.

单选题 【A1】______
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】根据第一段倒数第二句中“those sounds”可知，该空应该填“sounds”。
单选题 【A2】______
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】这句话前半句“人类发出声音来表达想法和感受”与后半句“他们可以互相交流”之间是因果关系，因此应该填so that。
单选题 【A3】______
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】句意：后来，他们在某些符号方面达成了一致意见。agree upon对……取得一致意见。agree in对……表示同意。
单选题 【A4】______
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】根据前半句中“which could be written to...”及下一句中“written in letters”可知，该空应该填“written down”。
单选题 【A5】______
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】句意：话语的力量在于他们的关联——他们在我们脑海中所引发的东西。根据破折号后的内容可知该空应该填“associations”。
单选题 【A6】______
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】此处考查的是固定搭配“be/become filled with”，意思是“被……充满”。
单选题 【A7】______
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】空白处所在句子与其前一句表达的是类似意思，并没有转折，因此应该填and。
单选题 【A8】______
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】此题考查的是固定搭配。recall to mind回想起，回忆起。
单选题 【A9】______
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】句意：我们读的越多，学的越多，对我们有意义的字词的数量就会越多。
单选题 【A10】______
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】这句话的主语为“the number of words”，应该与increase搭配。