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                                                     Linguistic(语言学的) Puzzles
         How did language begin? What was the world's first language? Do all languages come from one
    original language?   1     .
          In the 4th century BC, the Greek historian Herodotus wrote this account: Psamtik I，an Egyptian
    King, wanted to find out what the oldest language in the world was.    2    .He told his servant to find
    two newborn babies.When the servant had found them, the king gave them to a shepherd (牧羊人)
    and said,  “Keep these babies with the goats.Take care of them, but do not talk to them.Listen to any
    words that they say.” The king wanted to find out what language the children would speak if they were
    left alone.He said, “The first words they speak will come from the original language of the world.”
             3    . He told the king who asked his scholars about this word.They told him that the Phiygians,
    who lived in an area which is now Turkey, called bread “becos”. The king said, “Then Phiygian is the
    oldest language.” Today we know that the king's conclusion was wrong.We don't know why the children
    said “becos”. 
          4  . Scholars discovered that many European and southern Asian languages belonged to the same
    “family” and that they started from the same parent language, ProtoIndoEuropean.Linguists think that it
    had split into several different languages, including Greek and Sanskrit, between 2000 and 1000 BC.
    Other languages, such as English and Spanish, developed from later splits.
           5   . Two questions that interest linguists are: How does language change? Why does language
    change? If you like solving mysteries, historical linguistics may be the job for you.

    A. Nowadays, we study the origin of language more scientifically
    B. He was talking about this problem with his scholars when he had an idea
    C. The King was very kind to his servant and his servant remained royal to him
    D. Linguists are the scholars who are very interested in categorizing the language families
    E. People have been trying to find the answers to these questions for more than 2000 years
    F. One day, while the babies were babbling to each other, the shepherd heard them say “becos”
    G. Linguists have classified many language families, and they are still trying to categorize others
    1-5: EBFAG
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    阅读—列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
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    阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
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    第一节  阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）

    阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

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             B．teachers more devoted to teaching

             C．practical skills for getting a job in China

             D．development in mind and life-long ability

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             B．it is more difficult for liberal-arts graduates to find a job because employers don’t believe that they can perform well

             C．literal-arts education is of little help to China’s economic development

             D．research universities received more Chinese applicants than smaller liberal-arts colleges

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             B．Chinese universities are providing the same courses as foreign universities

             C．many universities are not paying enough attention to teaching

             D．research should gain more attention in order to improve China’s universities’ rankings

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             A．an article introducing liberal arts

             B．an article introducing the book A True Liberal Arts Education

             C．an article criticizing China’s higher education

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    第—节  阅读理解(共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)

    阅读—列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

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    第一节  阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）

    阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

    Now in his senior year in Bowdoin College, a small, elite liberal-arts（文科）college in Masine, Chen Yongfang has become such a devotee of the liberal-arts approach that he’s made it his mission to spread the word throughout China. He has coauthored a book called A True Liberal Arts Education, which essentially explains the little-known concept to Chinese students and their parents. Though there have been many books about how to get into Ivy League universities, “there was not a single book in China about the smaller liberal-arts colleges,” he says.

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