单选题 No one knows how man learned to make words. Perhaps he began by making sounds like those made by animals. Perhraps he grunted like a pig when he lifted something heavy. Perhaps he made sounds like those he heard all around 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. Before you leave school, you will learn only a few thousand of them.

单选题 No scientist knows how man made words.
A. Right. B. Wrong. C. Doesn't say.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[详细解答] 从本文第一句即可得到答案。
单选题 Man could make sounds like those he heard all around him.
A. Right. B. Wrong. C. Doesn't say.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[详细解答] 第一段列举了人可能模仿的声音源,如动物的叫声、水流声、石头落地的声音等各类声音。
单选题 In order to make a speech, we need sounds and words.
A. Right. B. Wrong. C. Doesn't say.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[详细解答] 文中没有讲到这一点。
单选题 We need and use all of the words in a dictionary.
A. Right. B. Wrong. C. Doesn't say.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[详细解答] 第二段倒数第二句说我们并不需要所有的词汇。
单选题 People in different countries have known each other well.
A. Right. B. Wrong. C. Doesn't say.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[详细解答] 文中没有讲到这一点。