专四专八考试

【单选题】Three factors contribute to the miraculous spread ofEnglish (31) an international language:English usage in science, technology and commerce; the ability to (32) vocabulary from other languages; and the acceptability of variousEnglish dialects.
In science,English (33) German after World War II. With this technical and scientific dominance (34) the beginning of overall dominance by the language, (35) inEurope and then globally. Today, the information (36) has replaced the industrial age and has (37) time and distance. This is transforming world economies from industrial production to information-based goods and services. (38) geography and borders, the information revolution is reflecting our worlD、In less than twenty years, information processing, (39) limited to the printed work, has given way to computers and the Internet.Computer-aided communication is closing the gap between spoken and writtenEnglish. It encourages more (40) conversational language and a tolerance for diversity and individual style.
English, (41) many languages, uses a phonetic alphabet and fairly basic grammar.But most importantly, it has a large and extensive vocabulary, (42) about 80% is foreign. It has borrowed and continues to borrow words from Spanish and French, Hebrew andArabic, Hindi-Urdu andBengali, Malay andChinese, (43) from languages from WestAfrica and PolynesiA、This language characteristic makes it unique (44) history. Finally, (45) English language central authority guards the standards of the language; therefore, many (46) have developed:American,British,Canadian, Indian, andAustralian, (47) a few. There is no standard pronunciation.But within this diversity is a (48) of grammar and one set of core vocabulary. (49) , each country that speaks the language can introduce (50) of its own culture into the usage and vocabulary.
A．abbreviated
B．cut
C．abridged
D．compressed

网考网参考答案：D
网考网解析：
动词语义题。compress意为“压缩”；abbreviate意为“缩写”；cut意为“剪、切”；abridge则意为“删节”，本句中“信息时代缩短了时间和距离”，用compress一词最为准确。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>