八级英语

The changes in language will continue forever, but no one knows sure (26)who does the changing. One possibility is that children are responsible. A professor of linguistic at the University of Hawaii,...

Whenever you see the old film, even on made as early (26)as ten years before, you can’t help being strucked (27)by the appearance of the woman taking part. Their hair-styles and make-up look dated; ...

专八练习题：There are great impediments to the general use of a standard in pronun-ciation comparable to that existing in spelling (orthography). One is thefact that pronunciation is learnt ‘n...

专八练习题：Tracing missing persons can take much patient detective work. But a specialkind of “private eye” can trace the missing ancestors of whole peoples bystudying the clues buried by w...

专八练习题：Most people would describe water like a colorless liquid. They __1__would know that in very cold conditions it becomes a solid calledice and that when heating on a fire it becomes a ...

专八练习题：Sporting activities are essentially modified forms of hunting behavior.Viewing biologically, the modern footballer is revealed as a member of a disguised __1__hunting pack. His killi...

专八练习题：Why does the idea of progress loom so large inthe modern world? Surely because progress of particu-lar kind is actually taking place around us and is moreand more manifesting. Althou...

专八练习题：chair-grasp”. Host and guest have been talking for some time, butnow the host has an appointment to keep and can get away. His urge __1__to go is held in cheek by his desire not be...

专八练习题：The hunter-gatherer tribes that today live as our prehistoric human __1__ancestors consume primarily a vegetable diet supplementing with animal foods __2__An analysis of 58 societies...

专八练习题：During the early years of this century, wheat was seen as the very lifebloodof Western Canada. People on city streets watched the yields and the price of wheatin almost as much feeli...