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《大学英语B》填空学习练习 1. Mr. Brown and his wife had a small bar near a railway station. The bar didn’t close 1__ midnight because people came to drink while they were 2 for trains. So the business was good. At two o’clock one morning, a man was still sitting at the table in the bar. He was 3 . Mr. Brown’s young wife wanted to go to bed. She looked 4 the bar several times, but the man kept sleeping. Then at last she went to her husband and said to him, “You have tried to wake that man several times, and he isn’t drinking anything. Why haven’t you sent him away? It’s too late.” “Oh, no, I don’t want to send him away,” he answered 5 a smile. “You know, each time I woke him up, he gave me five pounds. Then he went to sleep again.” 1. A. with B. around C. sleeping D. until E. waiting 2. A. with B. around C. sleeping D. until E. waiting 3. A. with B. around C. sleeping D. until E. waiting 4. A. with B. around C. sleeping D. until E. waiting 5. A. with B. around C. sleeping D. until E. waiting 2. Human language is a system of symbols. No other animal has a complex symbolic language that must be learned. Animal language is largely instinctive, 1 basic human language is learned speech, composed of sounds that symbolize things, ideas, actions, and the like. We learn to read, often with considerable effort, by noticing or 2 taught that groups of letters stand for the sounds that we already know how to speak. We learn to write, with even __3 effort, by learning to form the letters, 4 are symbols of sounds, and to put them together on paper so that others can read what we “say”. Since human language is a form of human behavior, there is nothing absolute about it. It has developed lowly throughout human history and will continue to develop. In the English language there are perhaps 600,000 sou