英语b级考试阅读理解专项练习题与答案解析.doc

- - HYPERLINK /UploadFiles_9196/201104/2011042011300876.gif \t _blank ? HYPERLINK /UploadFiles_9196/201104/2011042011300876.gif \t _blank 2011年上半年 HYPERLINK /b/201104/418261.html \o \t _blank 英语B及考试就要开考了，阅读理解在考试中占了很大的比重，为了帮助大家拿到阅读的高分，下面给大家整理了阅读理解专项练习题及答案解析，供大家参考。 When one looks back upon the fifteen hundred years that are the life span of the English language, he should be able to notice a number of significant truths. The history of our? been a history of constant change—at times a slow, almost imperceptible change, at other times a violent collision between two languages. Our? been a living growing organism, it has never been static. Another significant truth that emerges from such a study is that language at all times has been the possession not of one class or group but of many. 『At one extreme it has been the property of the common, ignorant folk, who have used it in the daily business of their living, much as they have used their animals or the kitchen pots and pans.』① At the other extreme it has been the treasure of those who have respected it as an instrument and a sign of civilization, and who have struggled by writing it down to give it some permanence, order, dignity, and if possible, a little beauty. 　　As we consider our changing language, we should note here two developments that are of special and immediate importance to us. One is that since the time of the Anglo-Saxons there has been an almost complete reversal of the different? relationship of words in a sentence. Anglo-Saxon (old English) was a language of many inflections. Modern English has few inflections. We must now depend largely on word order and function words to convey the meanings that the older language did by means of changes in the forms of words. Function words, you should understand, are words such as prepositions, conjunctions, and a few others that are used primarily to show relationships among other words. A few inflections, however, have survived. And when some word inflection