[填空题]Discovery Channel’s weekly series" Unsolved History" is one of the best among similar TV programs.

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HISTORY OF LANGUAGE

1 In evolutionary history, the development of language set humans apart from the rest of the animal kingdom. Spoken language originated when early humans began to string grunts and squeals together to form a sound-meaning system. Language provided humans with the tools to create ideas and then to communicate these ideas to other people.
2 As human knowledge and civilization expanded, a system that stored information became necessary. The first writing systems used pictures to represent objects. These early systems were successful in recording concrete details concerning trade and taxes, but they could not convey abstract ideas and emotions. Between 800 and 500 B.C., the ancient Greeks began to use a phonetic alphabet that used symbols to represent sounds, with each sound making up part of a word. Thus, written language became a means of mass communication.
3 The expansion of humanity from an or
A. Humans evolved as the most powerful species after they developed language.
B. The creation of human language has its origins in the language of animals.
C. The emergence of language distinguished early humans from other animals.
D. Humans and animals developed completely different systems of communication.

[单项选择]A. The man can check the book about ancient history out.
B. The book is not for reading in the library but for checking out.
C. The man should stay in the library to read the book.
D. The book is not about ancient history but about reference.

[单项选择]Sentence Completion
To a person______natural history, his coun-try or seaside stroll is a walk t,hrough a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall.
A. enamored of
B. uninstructed in
C. responsive to
D. disillusioned with
E. (E) dependent on

[单项选择] It was the worst tragedy in maritime (航海的) .history, six times more deadly than the Titanic. When the German cruise ship Wilhelm Gustloff was hit by torpedoes (鱼雷) fired from a Russian submarine in the final winter of Word War Ⅱ, more than 10,000 people -- mostly women, children and old people fleeing the final Red Army push into Nazi Germany -- were packed aboard. An ice storm had turned the decks into frozen sheets that sent hundreds of families sliding into the sea as the ship tilted and began to go d own. Others desperately tried to put lifeboats down. Some who succeeded fought off those in the water who had the strength to try to claw their way aboard. Most people froze immediately. "I’’ll never forget the screams," says Christa Niittzmann, 87, one of the 1, 200 survivors. She recalls watching the ship, brightly lit, slipping into its dark grave -- and into seeming nothingness, rarely mentioned for more than hall’’ a century. Now Germany’’s Nobel Prize-winning author Günt
A. It was attacked by Russian torpedoes.
B. Most of its passengers were frozen to death.
C. Its victims were mostly women and children.
D. It caused the largest number of casualties.

[单项选择]A client with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis and a history of two myocardial infarctions and coronary artery disease is to receive levothyroxine (Synthroid). Because of the client’s cardiac history, the nurse would expect that the client’s initial dose for the thyroid replacement would be which of the following（）
A. 25 g/day, initially.
B. 100 g/day, initially.
C. Delayed until after thyroid surgery.
D. Initiated before thyroid surgery.