2021年度山西大学英语考试模拟练习卷（5）新整理版.doc

山西大学英语考试真题卷（5） 本卷共分为1大题50小题，作答时间为180分钟，总分100分，60分及格。 严格遵守考试纪律，维护考试秩序！ 一、单项选择题（共50题，每题2分。每题的备选项中，只有一个最符合题意） 1.People thinking about the origin of language for the first time usually arrive at the conclusion that it developed gradually as a system of grunts, hisses and cries and 【B1】 a very simple affair in the beginning. 【B2】 ,when we observe the language behavior of 【B3】 we regard as primitive cultures, we find it 【B4】 complicated. It was believed that an Eskimo must have at the tip of his tongue a vocabulary of more than 10 000 words 【B5】 to get along reasonably well, much larger than rite active vocabulary of an average businessman who speaks English. 【B6】 ,these Eskimo words are 【B7】 more highly inflected than 【B8】 of any of the well-known European languages, for a 【B9】 noun can be spoken or written in 【B10】 hundred different forms, each 【B11】 a precise meaning different from that of any other. The 【B12】 of the verbs are ever more 【B13】 .The Eskimo language is, therefore, one of the most difficult in the world to learn, 【B14】 the result that almost no traders or explorers have 【B15】 tried to learn it. 【B16】 ,there 【B17】 grown up, in communication between Eskimos and whites, a jargon. 【B18】 to the pidgin English used in Old China, with a vocabulary of from 300 to 600 uninflected words. Most of them are derived from Eskimo 【B19】 some are derived from English, Danish, Spanish, Hawaiian and other languages. It is this jargon that is usually 【B50】 by travelers as the Eskimo language. A．isB．wasC．hasD．have 参考答案：C首先，读者应该搞清楚，这是一个倒装句，主语是后面的a jargon similar to the pidgin English used in old China，因此谓语要使用单数；由于动词短语grow up不使用被动语态，因此正确答案为has,例如：Men have sorrow and joy；they part or meet again；The moon is bright or dim and she may wax or wane．There has been nothing perfect since the olden days．人有悲欢离合，月有阴晴圆缺，此事古难全。 2.People thinking about the origin of language for the first time usually arrive at the conclusion that it developed gradually as a system of grunts, hisses and cr