24. A. expression     B. words          C. idea          D. terms

　　25.  A. out of a date        B. out of the date

　　C. out of his date     D. out of date

　　26. A. community     B. society         C. government     D. education

　　27. A. take          B. give          C. make        D. receive

　　28. A. from          B. by            C. in          D. on

　　29. A. has taken place                           B. has been taken place

　　C.have taken place                         D.have been taken

　　30. A. individual       B. single          C. sole          D.

　　31. A. attract          B. pull           C. attack        D. push

　　32. A. dramatically     B. slowly         C. dramatic       D. slow

　　33. .A. as good as       B. so much as .      C. as well as         D. as far as

　　34. A. it self         B. its self            C. itself            D. its' self

　　35. A. involve         B. matter              C. concem            D. contact

四、阅读理解（共15小题，每题3分，共45分）阅读下列短文，然后根据短文的内容从每个小题的四个选项中选出最佳一项，并把它前面的大写字母写在左边的括号内。

　　A

　　How men first leamt to invent words is unknown; in other words, the origin of language is a mystery.   All we really know is that men,  unlike animals somehow invented certain sounds Lo express thoughts and feelings, actions and things, so that they could communicate with each other; and that later they agreed upon certain signs, called letters which could be combined (  结合    ) to stand for those sounds, and which could be written down.  Those sounds, whether spoken or written inletters, we call words.

　　The power of words, then, lies in their associations ( 联系) with the things they bring up before our minds.  Words become filled with meanings for.us by experience, and the longer we live, the more certain words recall (回想) to us the glad and sad events of our past; and the more we read and learn, the more the number of words that mean something to us increases.

　　Great writers are those who not only have great thoughts but also express these thoughtsin words which appeal ( 吸引) powerfully to our minds and emotions.  We should therefore learn to choose our  words carefully arid use them exactly, or they will make our speech silly and impolite.

　　(      )36.The origin oflanguage is            .

　　A. clearly explained in this passage

　　B. a matter that cannot be or has not been explained or understood

　　C. a question that was difficul to answer

　　D. a problem already solvecl

　　(      )37. One of the reasons why men invented cert.ain sounds to express thoughts and actions was that they could                       .

　　.A. agree upon certain signs

　　B. write them down

　　C. make themselves understand each other

　　D. combine them

　　(      )38. What is true about the words？

　　A. They are used to express feelings only.

　　B. They can't be written down.