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                The guy who tried to edit English 

   The English vocabulary is not only huge,it's also fiill of words that mean practically the same thing. Get,obtain,acquire. Shine,gleam,glow,sparkle. 36 

   That was the thinking of a British writer named C. K. Ogden,who in the 1930s proposed(提議) a new form of English with a vocabulary of just 850 words. He called the project Basic English. 37 

   Ogden arrived at his 850-word list through experimentation,rephrasing texts over and over until he was satisfied. The words he finally included were not necessarily the shortest or most concrete. 38 Because any verbal idea could be expressed with a small number of “operators” — words like come,go, get,take,have,make,be, and do — Ogden argued that most verbs were unnecessary. In Basic English, eat is “have a meal." is “go from memory."

   Winston Churchill was a fan of the concept as a way to get foreigners to speak English,and he encouraged the BBC to use it. 39 Roosevelt,who expressed mild interest,joked that Churchill's famous speech about offering his “blood,toil,tears,and sweat” to his country wouldn’t have been so exciting if he “had been able to offer the British people only blood,work,eye water,and face water,which I understand is the best that Basic English can do with five famous words."

   40 Churchill didn't use it either. When seeking to express ourselves,we don't necessarily need fewer words; we need the right words. So it's to our benefit to have a large supply on hand.

   A. Do we really need them all?

   B. How many words are there in English?

   C. Ogden himself didn't actually use Basic English.

   D. Plenty of seemingly basic words did not make the list at all.

   E. He also tried to persuade President Franklin Roosevelt to promote it.

   F. He believed it would make the language more efficient and easier to learn.

   G. Despite attention from world leaders,Basic English never got very far off the drawing board.

Answer 1

話題:語言學(xué)習(xí)

本文是說明文.文章介紹了由奧格登創(chuàng)造出來的一種簡化英語——基本英語。

36. A.第一段講到英語的詞匯量很大且有很多同 義詞，第二段提到 That was the thinking of a British writer及奧格登將英語詞匯量減到850個 可知，此處應(yīng)該是問“我們確實需要那么多詞匯 嗎”。

37. F。奧格登之所以創(chuàng)造基本英語是因為他覺得 這樣英語更容易學(xué)。

38. D.根據(jù)上文的 were not necessarily the shortest or most concrete及下文舉的例子可知，很多基 礎(chǔ)的詞匯并沒有出現(xiàn)在基本英語中。

39. E。由下文的 Roosevelt^ who expressed mild interest可知，此處是說丘吉爾也試圖說服羅斯 福總統(tǒng)推廣基本英語。

40. C。根據(jù)下文的 Churchill didn’t use it either 可知，“奧格登并沒有真正使用基本英語”符合語境。