When people communicate, they need words to express themselves. People living in different countries made different kinds of words.
Today there are about fifteen hundred languages in the world. Each contains many thousands of words. A very large dictionary, for example, contains four or five hundred thousand of words. But we do not need all these. To read short stories you need to know only about two thousand words. Before you leave school, you will learn only one thousand or more.
Vocabulary means a lot of words. The words you know are called your vocabulary. You should try to make your own vocabulary bigger. Read as many books as you can. There are a lot of books written in easy English for you to read. You will enjoy them. When you meet a new word, find it in your dictionary. Your dictionary is your most useful book.
【小題1】The number of different languages spoken is about _______.

A．150 B．15,000 C．500 D．1,500
【小題2】 Before you leave your school, you’ll learn _______.
A．only two thousand words B．five hundred thousand words
C．more than one thousand words D．three or four thousand words
【小題3】 To make your vocabulary bigger, you must _______.
A．get as many dictionaries as you can
B．read as many books as you can
C．buy a lot of books
D．have a very large English dictionary
【小題4】You will enjoy_______.
A．the books written in easy English
B．your dictionary
C．your new words
D．finding new words in a dictionary
【小題5】 What is your most useful book?
A．Books written in easy English. B．Books written in English.
C．Your dictionary. D．Short stories.


【小題1】D
【小題2】C
【小題3】B
【小題4】A
【小題5】C

解析試題分析：這篇短文主要講述世界上語言之多，詞匯量之大，但是閱讀簡(jiǎn)短的文章只需大約2000個(gè)詞匯。文章同時(shí)還介紹了如何擴(kuò)大詞匯量。
【小題1】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)短文Today there are about fifteen hundred languages in the world的描述可知，世界上現(xiàn)有大約1500種語言。故選D。
【小題2】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)短文Before you leave school, you will learn only one thousand or more.描述可知，畢業(yè)前你將學(xué)會(huì)1000多個(gè)詞。故選C。
【小題3】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)短文You should try to make your own vocabulary bigger. Read as many books as you can的描述可知，要想擴(kuò)大詞匯量，要盡量多讀書。故選B。
【小題4】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)短文There are a lot of books written in easy English for you to read. You will enjoy them描述可知，人們喜歡閱讀用簡(jiǎn)單英語寫的書。故選A。
【小題5】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)短文Your dictionary is your most useful book的描述可知，詞典是人們最有用的書。故選C。
考點(diǎn)：日常生活類短文閱讀。

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