模块练测卷（二）Ⅰ . 单项选择1. I wonder what difficulty he had ______ Chinese. A. learned B. learning C. to learn D. with learning 2. The capital of Scotland is known ______ the Athens of the North. A. for B. by C. as D. with 3. The average adult in our city consumes a lot of salt a day, twice more than ______ our body needs. A. as many B. what C. of that D. as much 4. He tried many times to sneak（潜逃） across the border to the neighbouring country, ______ each time. A. having been caught B. unfortunately caught C. always being caught D. only to be caught 5. The money he spends every month ______ about 100 yuan. A. adds up to B. adds up C. adds D. adds to 6. —Where would you like to have your dinner, in a French restaurant or a Chinese one? —It ______ to me. A. is not different B. makes not a difference C. is not a difference D. makes no difference 7. The country life he was used to ______ greatly since 1992. A. change B. has changed C. changing D. had changed 8. What he said suggested that he ______ what happened last night. A. know B. should know C. knew D. have known 9. Mr White as well as his wife and children ______ a number of cities in the past few years. A. have traveled B. had traveled C. traveled D. has traveled 10. ______ his writing with his listening, we find he is better at his writing. A. Compare B. Compared C. Comparing D. Being compared 11. If you can’t work out the problem, ______ the last page of the book. A. refer to B. look up C. search for D. find out 12. More efforts should be ______ to make our country stronger. A. done B. attempted C. made D. tried 13. American English and British English have a lot ______ each other. A. to common with B. in common with C. commonly for D. for common between 14. ______ my teacher, I’m becoming more and more interested in English. A. Thank to B. Thanks for C. Thanks to D. Thanking for 15. She went back to the same hall ______ she had lost her necklace. A. as B. that C. where D. at which Ⅱ . 阅读理解 A Throughout history, people have been interested in knowing how language first began, but no one knows exactly where or how this happened. However, we do know a lot about languages, the languages of today and also the languages of earlier times. There are probably about three thousand languages in the world today. Chinese is the language with most speakers. English, Russian and Spanish are also spoken by many millions of people. On the other hand, some languages in the world have less than one hundred speakers. There are several important families of languages in the world. For example, most of the languages of Europe are in one large family called Indo-European. The original（最初的） language of this family was
