[单项选择]Henry Morris, an English professor, asks his college English classes to count "loan words". These are words we use that were taken directly from other languages. He jokes about the term "loan words". "It is not like we’re going to give these words back after we’ve done with them," he says. "Imported words" might be a better term. Simple sentences may contain 15 percent or less of these. Complex. sentences may be 50 percent or more "imports". Scientific papers might use mostly loan words. "We use imports constantly,: Morris says, "generally without any idea we are using them."
Was there ever a time when people spoke just plain English7 No. Scholars estimate that one-third of the world’s languages are of Indo-European origin. These includes English, French, Latin, German, Dutch, Celtic, and Salvic tongues. Back around AD 450, when Julius Caesar was alive, English, as we know, it didn’t exist. English is relatively young. Its roots go back 1,500 years, to Britain. People there spok
A. show the change of English in the history
B. explain the meaning of some imported words
C. show the impact of immigrants on the English vocabulary
D. picture the immigrants stream in the early 1900s

[单项选择]Henry Morris, an English professor, asks his college English classes to count "loan words". These are words we use that were taken directly from other languages. He jokes about the term "loan words". "It is not like we’re going to give these words back after we’ve done with them," he says. "Imported words" might be a better term. Simple sentences may contain 15 percent or less of these. Complex. sentences may be 50 percent or more "imports". Scientific papers might use mostly loan words. "We use imports constantly,: Morris says, "generally without any idea we are using them."
Was there ever a time when people spoke just plain English7 No. Scholars estimate that one-third of the world’s languages are of Indo-European origin. These includes English, French, Latin, German, Dutch, Celtic, and Salvic tongues. Back around AD 450, when Julius Caesar was alive, English, as we know, it didn’t exist. English is relatively young. Its roots go back 1,500 years, to Britain. People there spok
A. Professor Morris and his English classes in college
B. some jokes about the term "loan words"
C. the meaning and using of "loan words" in English
D. the difference between loan words and imported words

[单项选择]A father asks his son "How many letters are there in the Alphabet (字母表)”“I don’t know," says his son. His father says," You don’t know You are in school for many years and you don’t know how many letters are there in the Alphabet" He is very angry.
His son says, "No. But let me ask you a question, Dad. You often go to the post office, please tell me how many letters are there in the post office/
The son is in school for many years.
[A] True. [B] False.

[填空题]The sales manager asks his men every week (inform)（）him of everything concerning sales.

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Old Henry and his wife Phoebe loved one another. They were simple ____21____ . Their world was their fruit trees, cornfields and a backyard ____22____ pigs and chickens. The rest of the world was a ____23____ place like stars in the sky. Sometimes, Henry worried about ____24____ . His wife would say, "If you ____25____ talking like that, I will go away and what would you do There is nobody to ____26____ you. " Old Henry knew his wife would never ____27____ him. The only thing he ____28____ was death and the life if his wife died. Knowing she was there, beside him, in the dark, made Henry ____29____ again. In this way, they lived ____30____ in their world. One day, Phoebe became sick and ____31____ . Old Henry watched them put her body in the earth. When people left, he still stood near the tomb for long. At night, he read newspapers ____32____ most of the time, he just sat, looking at the door, ____33____ where Phoebe was and ____34____ he would die. For five months, he
A. sadly
B. worriedly
C. gladly
D. warmly