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p;1814, the collection had increased to about 3,000 books. They were S7 that year
when the Capitol was burned down during Americas war with Britain.
To help re-build the library, Congress bought the books of President Thomas Jefferson. Mister Jeffersons collection included 7,000 books in seven languages. S8 .Today, three buildings hold the librarys collection. S9 It buys some of its books and gets others as gifts. It also gets materials through its copyright office. S10 .This means the Library of Congress receives almost everything that is published in the United States.
Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)
Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage.
Sign has become a scientific hot button. Only in the past 20 years have specialists
in language study realized that signed languages are unique - a speech of the hand. They offer a new way to probe how the brain generates and understands language, and throw new light on an old scientific controversy: whether language, complete with grammar, is something that we are born with, or whether it is a learned behavior. The current interest in sign language has roots in the pioneering work of one rebel teacher at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., the world’s only liberal arts university for deaf people.
When Bill Stokoe went to Gallaudet to teach English, the school enrolled him in a course in signing. But Stokoe noticed something odd: among themselves, students signed differently from his classroom teacher.
Stokoe had been taught a sort of gestural code, each movement of the hands representing a word in English. At the time, American Sign Language (ASL) was thought to be no more than a form of pidgin English (混杂英语 ). But Stokoe believed the "hand talk" his students used looked richer. He wondered: Might deaf people actually have a&
nbsp;genuine language? And could that language be unlike any other on Earth? It was 1955, when even deaf people dismissed their signing as "substandard". Stokoe’s idea was academic heresy (异端邪说 ).
It is 37 years later. Stokoe - now devoting his time to writing and editing books and journals and to producing video materials on ASL and the deaf culture - is having lunch at a café near the Gallaudet campus and explaining how he started a revolution. For decades educators fought his idea that signed languages are natural languages like English, French and Japanese. They assumed language must be based on speech, the modulation (调节) of sound. But sign language is based on the movement of hands, the modulation of space. "What I said," Stokoe explains, "is that language is not mouth stuff- it’s brain stuff."
11. The study of sign language is thought to be .
A) an approach to simplifying the grammatical structure of a language
B) an attempt to clarify misunderstanding about the origin of language &nb
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C) a challenge to traditional views on the nature of language
D) a new way to look at the learning of language
12.The present growing interest in sign language was stimulated by .
A) a leading specialist in the study of liberal arts B) an English teacher in a university for the deaf
C) some senior experts in American Sign Language D) a famous scholar in the study of the human brain
13. According to Stokoe, sign language is .
A) an international language C) an artificial language
B) a substandard language D) a genuine language
14. Most educators objected to Stokoe’s idea because they thought .
A) a language should be easy to use an上一页 [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] 下一页 |
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