兰州大学网络作业 英语1A.doc

大学英语(1)课程作业_A 大学英语(1)课程作业_A 大学英语(1)课程作业_A 用户名：LW终成绩：24.0 仅显示答错的题 一 单选题 1. How men first learnt 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 sounds to express thought and feelings, actions and things, so that they could communicate with each other; and that later they agreed upon certain signs, called letters, which could be combined to present those sounds, and which could be written down. Those sounds, whether spoken or written in letters, we call words. The power of words, then, lies in their associations - the things they bring up before our minds. Words become filled with meaning for us by experience; and the longer we live, the more certain words recall to us the glad and sad events of our past; and the more we read and learn, the more the number of words that mean something increases. Great writers are those who not only have great thoughts but also express these thoughts in words which appeal powerfully to our minds and emotions. This charming and telling use of words is what we call literary style. Above all, the real poet is a master of words. He can convey his meaning in words which sing like music and which by their position and association can move men to tears. We should therefore learn to choose our words carefully and use them accurately, or they will make our speech silly and vulgar. By association in the last paragraph, the author means ______. a special quality a joining of ideas in the mind an appearance which is puzzling a strange feature 本题分值： 4.0 用户得分： 0.0 用户解答： a special quality 标准答案： a joining of ideas in the mind 2. She _____down and soon fell asleep. lied laid lain lay 本题分值： 4.0 用户得分： 0.0 用户解答： lied 标准答案： lay 3. Each day of your journey has ______ twenty-five or twenty-three hours. neither not either never 本题分值： 4.0 用户得分： 0.0 用户解答： never 标准答案： either 4. Only freed from past burdens, can we _____ the p