《2025年实验班全程提优训练高中英语必修第一册外研版》

B(2025·福建三明一中期中)
English is the most widely used language in the history of our planet. One in every seven human beings can speak it. More than half of the world's books and three quarters of international mail are in English. Of all languages. English has the largest vocabulary—perhaps as many as two million words.
However, let's face it: English is a crazy language. There is no egg in an eggplant, neither pine nor apple in a pineapple and no ham in a hamburger. Sweetmeats are candy, while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.
We take English for granted. But when we explore its paradoxes (矛盾), we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square, public bathrooms have no baths in them.
And why is it that a writer writes, but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce, and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, shouldn't the plural of booth be beeth? One goose, two geese—so one moose, two meese?
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? How can overlook and oversee be opposites, while quite a lot and quite a few are alike? How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell the next?
English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of human beings. That's why, when stars are out, they are visible; but when the lights are out, they are invisible. And why, when I wind up my watch, I start it; but when I wind up this essay, I end it.
24. According to the passage, ______.(C)
A. boxing rings should be round
B. there should be an egg in an eggplant
C. sweetmeats and sweetbreads are different things
D. pineapples are the apples on the pine tree
25. Which of the following is the CORRECT plural?(B)
A. Beeth.
B. Geese.
C. Meese.
D. Tooth.
26. Which of the following includes two items which have the similar meaning?(A)
A. Quite a lot and quite a few.
B. Overlook and oversee.
C. A wise man and a wise guy.
D. Hot as hell and cold as hell.
27. Through the many paradoxes in the English language, the writer wants to show that human beings are ______.(D)
A. curious
B. crazy
C. confident
D. clever

答案： 24.C 细节理解题。根据第二段中的“Sweetmeats are candy, while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.”可知，sweetmeats 和 sweetbreads 两个词的意思不同，指的是不同的事物。故选 C。 25.B 细节理解题。根据第四段中的“One goose, two geese—so one moose, two meese?”可知，正确的复数形式是 geese。故选 B。 26.A 细节理解题。根据第五段中的“How can overlook and oversee be opposites, while quite a lot and quite a few are alike?”可知，quite a lot 与 quite a few 表达意思相同。故选 A。 27.D 推理判断题。根据最后一段“English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of human beings.”可知，英语是被人创造的，它反映了人类的创造性和智慧。即通过英语语言中的许多矛盾之处，作者想表明人类是聪明的。故选 D。