2017年江南大学远程教育大学英语(三)第1阶段测试题

D) There is less fun reading an ebook than a print book.

20. The passage is mainly about_______________.

A) a better way to download an Ebook B) a new kind of book—the Ebooks C) the new version of Ebooks D) the fun of reading Ebooks

Passage 3 Languages are remarkably complex and wonderfully complicated organs of culture. They contain the quickest and the most efficient means of communicating within their respective culture. To learn a foreign language is to learn another culture. In the words of a poet and philosopher, \languages as one speaks, so many lives one

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lives.\necessary as brain and body; while one is a part of the other, neither can function without the other. In learning a foreign language, the best beginning would be starting with the non-language elements of the language: its gestures, its body language, etc. Eye contact is extremely important in English. Direct eye contact leads to understanding, or, as the English saying goes, seeing eye-to-eye. We can never see eye-to-eye with a native speaker of English until we have learned to look directly into his eyes.

21．The best title for this passage is Language and Culture. A：T B：F

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22．According to this passage, the only way to learn a foreign language is to begin by A：T B：F

23．According to this passage, gestures are pictures in a language. A：T B：F

24．To learn a foreign language is to learn another culture. A：T B：F

25．Direct eye contact leads to understanding in all cultures.

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learning its body language.

A：T B：F

第三部分: 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）

请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

My mother used to ask me what is the most important part of the body. Through the years I would _26___the correct answer. When I was younger, I thought _27___ was very important to us as humans , so I said, “My ears, Mummy.” She said, “No. Many people are _28_____ . But you keep thinking about it and I will ask you again soon.

Several years passed before she asked me again. Since making my first _29____, I had often thought over the question. So this time I told her, “Mummy, it must be our eyes.” She looked at me and said, “You are _30____ fast, but the answer is not correct because

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