[单项选择](Not knowing) the language and (having no) friends in the country, he (found) (impossible to get) a job.
A. Not knowing
B. having no
C. found
D. impossible to get

[单项选择](Not knowing) the language and (having no) friends in the country, he (found impossible) (to get) a job.
A. Not knowing
B. having no
C. found impossible
D. to get

[单项选择]The language phenomenon that words having different meanings have the same form is called
A. homonymy.
B. hyponymy.
C. polysemy.
D. antonymy.

[单项选择]Not knowing the language of the country he was visiting, John had a hard time making himself （　）.
A. understand
B. understood
C. understanding
D. being understood

[单项选择]The advantage of employees having foreign language skills is that they can ______.
A. better control the whole negotiation process.
B. easily find new approaches to meet market needs.
C. fast - forward their proposals to headquarters
D. easily make friends with businesspeople abroad.

[单项选择]

Passage Two
Having no language, infants cannot be told what they need to learn. Yet by the age of three they will have mastered the basic structure of their native language and will be well on their way to communicative competence. Acquiring their language is a most impressive intellectual feat. Students of how children learn language generally agree that the most remarkable aspect of this feat is the rapid acquisition of grammar. Nevertheless, the ability of children to conform to grammatical rules is only slightly more wonderful than their ability to learn words. It has been reckoned that the average high school graduate in the United States has a reading vocabulary of 80,000 words, which includes idiomatic expressions and proper names of people and places. This vocabulary must have been learned over a period of 16 years. From the figures, it can be calculated that the average child learns at a rate of about 13 new words per day. Clearly a le
A. their ability
B. reading vocabulary
C. idiomatic expression
D. learning process