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英语自选综合(IB)模块阅读理解题型 专项训练 1 This is a rabbit. It is running into its hole. You will say, “What has this to do with language?” Can you see the rabbit’s tail? When a rabbit sees something dangerous, it runs away. Its white tail moves up and down as it runs and warns other rabbits that there is danger. The rabbit has told them something without making sound. It has given them a signal. Many other animals use this kind of language. For example, when a bee has found some food, it goes back to its home. It cannot tell the other bees where the food is by speaking to them, but it does a little dance in the air. _____1____ A dog barks when a stranger comes near. Some birds make several different sounds, each with its own meaning. Sometimes we human beings speak in the same way by making sounds like “Oh!” or “Ah!” when we are frightened or pleased. But we have something that no animal has a large number of words that have the meaning of things, actions, feelings or ideas. We are able to give each other information, to tell or inform other people what is in our mind or how we feel. _____2_____ No animal has the wonderful power of language. _____3____ Perhaps he began by making sounds like those made by animals. Perhaps he made low rough sounds like a pig when he lifted something heavy. Perhaps he made sounds like those he heard all round him water splashing(测), bee humming (发出嗡嗡声), 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. ____4_____ Today there are about fifteen hundred different languages in the world. Each contains many thousand words. A very large English dictionary, for example, contains four or five hundred thousand words. But we don’t need all these. To read a book you need to know only about two thousand words. Before you leave school, you will learn only a few thousand more. 第一节: 根据短文内容, 从A、B、C、D、E中选出最佳答案。 some animals say something by making