香港2020年专升本报考常见问题

Thenumber of speakers of English in Shakespeare′s time is estimated to have beenabout five million.Today it is estimated that some 260 million people speak itas a(an)21?language,mainlyin the United States,Canada,Great Britain,Ireland,South Africa,Australiaand New Zealand.In addition to the standard varieties of English found inthese areas,22?are a greatmany regional and social varieties of the language as well as?23?levels of usage that are employedboth in its spoken and written forms.
In fact,it is?24?to estimate the numberof people in the world who have acquired an adequate working knowledge ofEnglish in addition to their own languages.The?25?for English learningand the situations in which such learning takes place are so varied that itis 26 to explain and still moredifficult to judge?27?forms an adequateworking knowledge for each situation.
The main reason forthe widespread?28?for English is its present dayimportance as a world language.Besides 29 the indefinite needs of its nativespeakers,English is a language in which some of important works inscience,technology,and other?30 are beingproduced,and not always by native speakers.It is widely used for 31 purposes as meteorological(气象的)and airport communications,international conferences,and the?32?of information over the radio andtelevision networks of many?33.It is a language of widercommunication for a number of developing countries,specially former Britishcolonies.Many of these countries have multilingual?34.and need a language for internalcommunication in such matters as government,commerce,industry,,law and 35 as well as for internationalcommunication and for entrance to the scientific and techno-logicaldevelopments in the West.

第21题答案是（ ）

A.foreign
B.native
C.second
D.official

阅读《论毅力》中的一段文字，回答问题：
孔子曰：“譬如为山，未成一篑，止，吾止也；譬如平地，虽复一篑，进，吾往也。”孟子曰：“有为者，譬若掘井，掘井九仞，而不及泉，犹为弃井也。”成败之数，视此而已。
（1）解释这段文字中画横线字的含义。
数：
（2）这段文字表明了什么观点
（3）这段文字运用了哪几种论证方法
（4）文中所引孔孟的话属于哪种论据 哪个成语是由孔子的话引申来的

Passage Three
Every country has its heroes.They maybe soldiers or sports people,doctors or film stars.We
admire them for their courage,theirstrength,their devotion to duty or their talent.Their example inspires us tolive better,to work harder.
Terry Fox was a youngstudent who loved life and who loved sports.When he was just 18 years old aterrible tragedy occurred:his right leg had to be cut off because of cancer.Such an experience would have destroyed a weaker person--but Terry Fox was afighter.He refused to give up.Instead,while he was recovering from theoperation,an idea slowly formed in his mind.He decided he would run acrossCanada--in order to raise money for cancer research.
Slowly and carefully,he began to train.Every step was extremely painful,but he insisted,increasingthe distance covered day by day.Sixteen months later,in the spring of 1980,he was ready for the long journey across Canada--his Marathon of Hope.It was atime of inspiration and heart-breaking emotion.Through television,every homesaw his distinctive style of running--a kind of?half-hop and half-run.Thousands ofpeople lined the route to encourage him and to wish him well.They also gavemoney to fight cancer.Then,on September 1st,1980,after 143 days and morethan5,000 kilometers completed,everything came tragically to an end.Terry hadto stop.He lived on for?anothernine months and died on June 28th,1981.He was almost 23.

What idea was gradually formed inTerry′s mind during his recovering stage?

A.Earning money.
B.Cutting off the other leg.
C.Running across the country.
D.Exercising hard.