【题目】根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
The guy who tried to edit English
The English vocabulary is not only huge, it is also full of words that mean practically the same thing. Get, obtain, acquire. Shine, gleam, glow, sparkle. 【1】
That was the thinking of a British writer named C.K. Ogden, who in the 1930s promoted a new form of English with a vocabulary of just 850 words. He called the project Basic English. 【2】
Ogden arrived at his 850-word list through experimentation. The words he finally included were not necessarily the shortest or most concrete. 【3】 Because any verbal (动词的) idea could be expressed with a small number of “operators”— words like come, go, take, have, make, be and do — Ogden argued that most verbs were unnecessary. In Basic English, eat is “have a meal” and forget is “go from memory.”
Winston Churchill was a fan of the concept as a way to get foreigners to speak English, and he encouraged the BBC to use it. 【4】 Roosevelt, who expressed mild interest, joked that Churchill’s famous speech about offering his “blood, toil, tears and sweat” to his country wouldn’t have been so exciting if he “had been able to offer the British people only blood, work, eye water and face water, which I understand is the best that Basic English can do with five famous words.”
【5】 Churchill didn’t use it either. When seeking to express ourselves, we don’t necessarily need fewer words; we need the right words. So it’s our benefit to have a large supply of words on hand.
A. Do we really need them all?
B. How many words are there in English?
C. Ogden himself didn’t actually use Basic English.
D. Plenty of seeming basic words did not make the list at all.
E. He also tried to persuade President Franklin Roosevelt to promote it.
F. He believed it would make the language more efficient and easier to learn.
G. Despite attention from world leaders, Basic English never got as far as expected.
【答案】
【1】A
【2】F
【3】D
【4】E
【5】C
【解析】
试题分析:文章介绍了由奥格登创造出来的一种简化英语——基本英语。
【1】A 第一段讲到英语的词汇量很大且有很多同义词,第二段提到奥格登将英语词汇量减到850个,故此处应该是问“我们确实需要那么多词汇吗”。故选A。
【2】F 奥格登之所以创造基本英语是因为他觉得这样英语会更有效率,更容易学。故选F。
【3】D 根据上文的were not necessarily the shortest or most concrete及下文举的例子可知,很多基础的词汇并没有出现在基本英语中。故选D。
【4】E 由下文的 Roosevelt—who expressed mild interest可知,此处是说丘吉尔也试图说服罗斯福总统推广基本英语。故选E。
【5】C 根据下文的 Churchill didn’t use it either 可知,C项“奥格登并没有真正使用基本英语”符合语境。故选C。
【名师点拨】
1.七选五阅读题,有部分题出现在每一段的开始位置,若问题在段首 1.通常是段落主题句。认真阅读该段落,根据段落一致性原则,查找相关词或者同义词,从而推测出主题句,找到答案。 2.与后文是并列、转折、因果关系等。着重阅读后文第一两句,锁定线索信号词,然后在选项中查找 相关特征词。一般来说正确答案与它后面的一句话的在意思上是衔接的,所以通常情况下,这两句话中会 有某种的衔接手段。3.段落间的过渡句。这时要前瞻后望找到启示,即阅读上一段结尾部分,通常正确答案与上一段结尾有机地衔接起来,并结合下一段内容,看所选的答案是否将两段内容连贯起来。40.【5】C根据下文的 Churchill didn’t use it either 可知,“奥格登并没有真正使用基本英语”符合语境。故选C。
2.根据上下文的内容确定空格处的选项。36.【1】A第一段讲到英语的词汇量很大且有很多同义词,第二段提到奥格登将英语词汇量减到850个,故此处应该是问“我们确实需要那么多词汇吗”。故选A。
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