Language is the most astonishing behavior in the animal kingdom. It is the species-typical behavior that sets humans completely (1) from all other animals. Language is a means of communication, (2) it is much more than that. Many animals can (3) . The dance of the honeybee communicates the location of flowers (4) other members of the hive (蜂群). But human language permits communication about anything, (5) things like unicorns (独角兽) that have never existed. The key (6) in the fact that the units of meaning, words, can be (7) together in different ways, according to (8) , to communicate different meanings.
Language is the most important learning we do. Nothing (9) humans so much as our ability to communicate abstract thoughts, (10) about the universe, the mind, love, dreams, or ordering a drink. It is an immensely complex (11) that we take for granted. Indeed, we are not aware of most (12) of our speech and under standing. Consider what happens when one person is speaking to
A. anybody
B. another
C. other
D. everybody
As long as we have been on earth, we have used the sea around us. We take from the ocean and we give (41) it.
We take fish from the ocean — millions of kilograms of fish, every year, to (42) millions of people. We even use (43) bones for fertilizer and meal.
We take (44) from the ocean. One way to get salt (45) sea water in a shallow basin and leave it (46) it evaporates. Along with salt, other minerals are left after evaporation — iodine (碘), magnesium(镁), and bromine(溴), to (47) a few.
Much gold and silver drift (48) in the waters of the sea, too. But the sea does not (49) them up by simple evaporation.
Other gifts from the sea are pearls, sponges(海绵), and seaweed. Pearls become jewelry. (50) sponges become cleaning aids. Seaweed becomes (51) of many kinds — even candy, jellies, and ice cream — (52) medicine.
Believe it or (53) , f
A. when
B. before
C. until
D. since
(一)甲房地产开发公司(以下简称甲公司)招标获得一块“毛地”(有部分房屋需完成拆迁安置)的国有建设用地使用权，土地用途为居住用地，因故闲置1年。该项目再次启动6个月后，又因资金原因转让给乙房地产开发公司(以下简称乙公司)。3年后该项目建成，在成立业主大会前，由丙物业服务企业实施物业管理。
丙物业服务企业由（）选聘。
This book is dedicated (献给)to the students of the Social Intensive English Course conducted at Mingde University in Saskatoon between October, 2000 and July, 2001. It was at their suggestion that this book came into being, and it was their hard work and serious attention to every detail of each until as it was being written which made the book possible.
We sincerely hope that both teachers and students will take seriously the task of sending us comments on your teaching and learning experiences and criticism of those aspects of the test that are good and useful, and those that fail to meet the stated purpose of the book and need to be revised for a second edition.
We should also like to express our thanks to our editor, Liu Huamin, for his patience and his careful editing and design work, and Song Lihui who patiently sat through our endless discussions of every line of the test.
Special thanks go to Helen Armstrong for her criticisms of the form content an
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