TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (2002)(9)

TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (2002)

words are far more highly infleeted (词尾变化的) than 大32家 of any of the well-known European languages, for a 大33家 noun can be spoken or written in 大34家 hundred different forms, each 大35家 a precise meaning different from that of any other.

The forms of the verbs are even more 大36家. The Eskimo language is, therefore, one of the most difficult in the world to learn, 大37家 the result that almost no traders or explorers have 大38家 tried to learn it. Consequently, there has grown up, in communication between Eskimos and whites, a jargon 大39家 to the pidgin English used in Old China, with a vocabulary of from 300 to 600 uninflected words. Most of them are derived from Eskimo but some are derived from English, Danish, Spanish, Hawaiian and other languages. It is this jargon that is usually 大40家 by travellers as "the Eskimo language".

26. A. must be

B. must have been

C. ought to be

D. should be

27. A. However

B. Therefore.

C. Probably.

D. Undoubtedly.

28. A. whose

B. that

C. which

D. what