单选题 The greatest part of words are general terms. All things that exist being particulars, it may perhaps be thought reasonable that words, which ought to be conformed to things, should be so too, I mean in their signification, but yet we find quite the contrary. The far greatest part of words that make all languages are general terms which has not been the effect of neglect or chance, but of reason and necessity.Questions:

单选题 According to the passage, human language is rich with______.

A、 particular words
B、 polysemous words
C、 monosemous words
D、 general terms

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】解析：A：特指词，B：多义词，C：单义词，D：表示总称的词。文中第一句就说到“The greatestpart of words are general terms”。此题选D。

单选题 From this passage you can infer that general terms exist______.

A、 out of necessity
B、 out of reason
C、 both A and B
D、 out of neglect

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】解析：文中最后一句中提到“which has not been the effect of neglect or chance，but of reason andnecessity”，not…but…不是……而是……，因此此题选C。