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2024-2025学年外研社版高一（上）英语寒假作业（三）

一．完形填空（共1小题）

1．（2020春?天心区校级月考）Learningartylanguageishard，butlearningEnglishcanbeespecially（1）Why？Becausenativespeakersusethelanguageinwaysthat（2）couldneverdescribe.（3）wordsthatBritishpeopleusecausemanylanguagestudentsto（4）theirheads.

Heresa（n）（5）：YouoverhearaBritoncallingsomeoneawazzockButwhat（6）isawazzock？Thisword，infact，（7）afoolishperson，althoughtheresnothingaboutitthatwouldhelpyouguessthat.Therearemanystrange（8）likethisinBritishEnglish—theOxfordEnglishDictionarywouldbemuchsmallerwithoutthesepeculiar（古怪的）usagesfillingitspages.

Howcantheseoddwordsbe（9）？PartoftheansweristheBritishsenseofhumor.Britonsdontliketo（10）thingstooseriously，andthisisevidentthroughmanyBritishwordsandphrases.Forexample，tospendapennymeanstousethe（11）.Itreferstothedayswhenpeoplehadto（12）apennytouseapublictoilet.

InaninterviewfortheBBCswebsite，BritishlinguistDavidCrystal（13）theremightbe（14）reasonsforthesheernumberofoddwordsandphrasesinBritishEnglish.Hethinksthattheybeganinthelate16thandearly17thcenturies.Thiswasagreat（15）forthetheater，whenShakespeareandotherwritersworkedhardto（16）thedemandfornewplays.Thetheater^popularityalsocreatedanincentive（刺激）to（17）newwords.

Withthisin（18），perhapsShakespeareandhispeersaretoblamefor（19）Britishwordssuchascodswallopandbalderdash—whichboth，ironically，meannonsense

Whilethesestrangewordsmaybe（20）tonon﹣nativespeakers，theycertainlymakestudyingEnglishalotmoreinteresting.

（1）

A．appealing

B．challenging

C．caring

D．promising

（2）

A．handbooks

B．storybooks

C．textbooks

D．notebooks

（3）

A．Inshort

B．Inparticular

C．Indespair

D．Inpublic

（4）

A．scratch

B．nod

C．touch

D．raise

（5）

A．idea

B．reason

C．prob