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全国统考2022届高考英语一轮复习练习选修8Unit2Theuniversallanguage课时作业含解析 全国统考2022届高考英语一轮复习练习选修8Unit2Theuniversallanguage课时作业含解析 PAGE 全国统考2022届高考英语一轮复习练习选修8Unit2Theuniversallanguage课时作业含解析 　二十五　选修8　 Unit 2　The universal language （限时35分钟） Ⅰ. 阅读理解 A （2021·昆明模拟） For centuries, people have tried to invent a perfect universal written language and Chinese has actually been considered before。 Francis Bacon used to assume that a language like Chinese and its writing system would have qualified. Chinese doesnt use an alphabet based on sounds, but symbols indicating meaning。 Chinese character has its special relationship between the sign and what it symbolizes。 Each character represents a word or a concept and you pile them up together like Lego bricks， children’s plastic building toys, to build more words. Some of them also look like what they represent。 For example， a mountain may look just like a mountain with a peak in the middle. And fire resembles some blazing （燃烧的) logs. When you put them together and you get volcano. Isn’t that amazing? While some of them look like what they represent, most of them really don’t. In fact, some of them are incredibly complicated。 For instance, “Biang” is the name of a kind of noodle, which has 57 strokes （笔画）. It is very hard for people to pronounce or recognize this character, let alone writing it out correctly. Chinese is so complicated that since the 1950s， a simplified system of characters has been used in mainland China. But there is a problem. Chinese characters often represent whole works， and there are a lot of them。 In the Chinese dictionary there are around sixty four thousand characters。 So Chinese characters might not become a universal writing system soon. The trouble is not just inventing one， but getting people to use it. It wouldn’t be easy for the whole world to agree on the same set of meanings。 After all, language needs a cultural context. You cannot really just use a universal language as you like。