Everybody says Rebecca and John is a perfect match; no one has ever known __________ couple.
A. a betterB. the betterC. a bestD. the best
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Who do you suppose _____ wants to go with to the cinema____ in the 1990’s.
A. she; building B. that she; building
C. she; built D. that she; built
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Once again I found myself standing at the crossroads, two paths ahead of me.
A. lainB. lying C. to lie D. lie
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Generally speaking, the family, not the school, plays the role in educating children for life.
A. potential B. primary C. personal D. professional
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Can software bring dead tongues back to life? Probably yes.
A computer algorithm（計算程序）works almost as well as a trained linguist（語言學(xué)家） in reconstructing how dead "protolanguages" would have sounded, says a new study.
"Our computer system is doing a basic job right now," says Alex Bouchard-C?té, an assistant professor in the department of statistics at the University of British Columbia and lead author of the paper describing the algorithm. But the program does a good enough job that it may be able to give linguists a head start, the statistician added.
For centuries, scholars have reconstructed languages by hand: looking at the same word in two or more languages and making educated guesses about what that word's "ancestor" may have sounded like. For example, the Spanish word for man （"hombre"） and the French word for man （"homme"） developed from the Latin word "homo." The way linguists compare words from descendant（后代）languages to reconstruct the parent language is called, appropriately, the comparative method.
The early 19th-century linguist Franz Bopp was the first to compare Greek, Latin and Sanskrit using this method. Jacob Grimm, one of the Brothers Grimm of fairy tale fame, used the comparative method to show how Germanic languages developed from a common ancestor.
The difference between that and Bouchard-C?té's program, the statistician says, "is we do it on a larger scale." As a proof of concept, Bouchard-C?té fed words from 637 Austronesian languages （spoken in Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia and more） into the new algorithm, and the system came up with a list of what the ancestor words of all those languages would have sounded like. In more than 85 percent of cases, the automated reconstruction came within one character of the ancestor word commonly accepted as true by linguists.
The algorithm won't replace trained human linguists, but could speed up language analysis.
Using a computer to do large-scale reconstruction offers another advantage. Bouchard-C?té says, “With big data sets, you can really start finding regularities … You might find that certain sounds are more likely to change than others."
So Bouchard-C?té's team tested the "functional load hypothesis（假設(shè)）," which says that sounds that are more important for two clearly different words are less likely to change over time. A formal test of this hypothesis in 1967 looked at four languages; Bouchard-C?té's algorithm looked at 637.
"The revealed pattern would not be obvious if we had not been able to reconstruct large numbers of protolanguages," Bouchard-C?té and his coauthors write in the new study.
In addition to simply helping linguists understand how people spoke in the past, studying ancient languages can perhaps answer historical questions. For example, Bouchard-C?té says, "Say people are interested in finding out when Europe was settled. If you can figure out if the language of the settling population had a word for wheel, then you can get some idea of the order in which things occurred, because you would have some records that show you when the wheel was invented.”
1.The underline word “protolanguages” in the first paragraph probably refers to __________.
A. the languages that couldn’t be reconstructed by hand
B. parent languages that existed in the past
C. languages developed from a common ancestor
D. languages used to explain things that occurred in the past
2.We can learn from the fourth and fifth paragraphs that the reconstruction of “protolanguage” by scholars __________.
A. is commonly accepted as false
B. dates back to the 19th century
C. focuses on European languages
D. is conducted using the comparative method
3.According to Bouchard-C?té, reconstructing the dead "protolanguages" might _______.
A. arouse people’s interest in when Europe was settled
B. allow us to find answers to some historical questions
C. enable us to picture the way linguists communicated
D. help figure out how the wheel was invented
4.The author probably wants to prove the computer algorithm program led by Bouchard-C?té ___________.
A. will bring every dead language back to life
B. can take the place of linguists in language analysis
C. is of great help to promote language analysis with big data sets
D. can merely reconstruct Asian-Pacific “protolanguages”
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A horrible thought _________ him when he was waiting for Tom in the airport: what if the plane from Malaysia had been hijacked（劫持）?
A. attackedB. struckC. beatD. occurred
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Supposing you _________ the lottery, what would you do with the money?
A. would win B. have won C. had won D. won
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Dr. Kate: Radio _1. (chan
ge) a lot since we were young. It used _ 2. be the major source of' fun for the family.
Bob: Nowadays when you turn on the radio, you either hear music, a talk show3. news.
Dr. Kate: 4. (Fortunate), you can choose the kind of music you want to hear.
Bob: Yes, and there is a lot of points of view when you listen to talk shows. I usually enjoy 5. (listen) to them. I particularly like it w-hen a caller disagrees with the talk show host. I like to hear how he will defend his ideas.
Dr. Kate: Some talk show hosts are very rude to those 6. have opposing ideas. I really find that terrible.
Bob: It seems that people only listen to the radi0 7. they are driving in their car ，
Dr. Kate: That is true for me. but I know that my husband listens to it while he is working 8. home.
Bob: Now that f think about it, I realize that a lot of stores have the radi0 9. (play).
Dr. Kate: It's still a usefully and pleasant form of 10. (communicate).
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Such things ___ you described in the report seldom happen now.
A. that B. who C. as D. which
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