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1、2019-2020学年高二英语上学期期末考试试题(无答案)(II)第二部分阅读理解第一节（共10小题，每小题2.5分，满分25分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A.B.C和D），选出最佳选项Dictionariesarenotclosedbooks.Thereisstillplentyofroomformorewordsinthesegreatvocabularyauthorities.Newwordsarecontinuallybeingcreatedandaddedtoourlanguage
2、.Andmanyoftoday’swordexpertscancreditafamousmathematicianwiththecreationofthemethodbywhichtheydevelopmanynewwords.ThemathematicianwasanEnglishmannamedCharlesL.Dodgson.Inadditiontoworkingwithfigures,Dodgsonwrotebooks.Hisimaginativestoriesandpoemshavemade
3、Dodgsonbelovedtogenerartionsofreaders.Weknowhim,however,notbythenameofDodgsonbutbyhispenname,LewisCarroll.LewisCarrollhasdelightedcountlessreaders,youngandold,withAliceinWonderland,ThroughtheLookingGlass,andnumerouspoems.Intheseworks,Carrolldevelopeddoz
4、ensofnonsensicalwordssuchas“chortle”and“galumph”.ManyofthesewordsarebinednaturallywithmoremonwordsintheEnglishlanguage.Carrollreferredtohismade-upwordsas“portmanteau”words,namedafterakindofleathersuitcasethatopensintotwopartments.Thenamewaswellsuited,be
5、causemostofCarroll’swordshadtwopartments.Ratherthanbeingentirelyfabricated(虚构),theywereusuallymadefromthebinedpartsoftwodifferentwords.A“snark”,forexample,clearlycamefromasnakeandashark.AlthoughCarrolldiedlongago,histechniquecontinuestobeusedtoday.Wecle
6、arlyseehisinfluenceinsuchwordsassmog,brunch,andguesstimate.21.Whatdoestheunderlinedsentenceprobablymeanaccordingtothepassage?A.Dictionariesareopentothepublic.B.Dictionariesarehelpfultothepublic.C.Dictionariesarereadytowelenewwords.D.Thevocabulariesindic
7、tionariesarelimited.22.Dodgson’smade-upwords__________.A.arebasedondifferentwordsB.AreborrowedfromotherlanguagesC.AllefromhispoemsD.Arestillwidelyused23.Thispassageismainlyabout________.A.howDodgsonwrotehisworksB.howEnglishwordsarecreatedC.howadictionar
8、yiswrittenD.howDodgsoncreatednewwordsBAsnakehandlerwhocheated(逃脱)deadafterbeingbadlybittenbyasnakeisnowteachingAustralianshowtosurviveinthatcase.NevilleBumshasbeenbittentwelvetimesduringhislongworkwiththesnakes,anduseallhisexperi
