Isitpossiblethatthepeopleoftheworldtodaycouldagreeuponasingleinternationallanguagethateveryonewouldbeabletospeakandunderstand?

IntheUnitedNationstherearefiveofficiallanguages-EnglishChinese

RussianFrenchandSpanish.Howaboutmakingoneofthemintoaninternationallanguage?Englishhasbeenworkedonforthispurpose.Abasicwordlistof850EnglishwordsnamedBasicEnglishwasmade.Thesearetheonlyverbsintheentirelist“comegogivekeepletdoputmakesaybeseemmaywillhavesend.”WritinginBasicEnglishmayrequireyoutouseagreaternumberofwords-asinhavingtosay“Itcametomyears”insteadofIheard-butyoucanstillsayanythingyouwanttowithjust850differentwordsandafewsufixes（后缀）andprefixes（前缀）．Thisisamuchsmallernumberofwordstohavetorememberthantheordinarynumberofferedtothestudentsofaforeignlanguage.

Butpeoplehavealwayshadaneedtodomorethansimply“Tellitasitis”.Languageisforreportingnotonlyone'swork.Forthisalanguageneedsidiomsneedsallkindsofgrammarandstyle（文体）thatshowitshistoryanddevelopmentjustasapersonneedseyebrows（眉毛）.Istheresomespecialreasonwhyourlipsshouldbeadifferentcolorfromtherestofourface?Perhapsnotbutthisishowpeople-realpeople-are.Forcommunicationbetweenpeoplelanguagesofallkindswillremaintoreflect（反映）thegrowthandsoulofthesocietiesthatspeakthem.

(1)Thephrase“tellitasitis”inthethirdparagraphmeans__________.

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A．peoplecanuseBasicEnglishtosaywhattheywantto

B．peoplethinkBasicEnglishcanexpresswhattheyseeorhear

C．peoplesaywhattheywanttoaccordingtothefact

D．peopletellsomethingtheyliketo

(2)IfwewriteacompositioninBasicEnglishitwillbe________.

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A．longerthanusual

B．shorterthanusual

C．hardforustoexpresswhatwewantto

D．abletoexpressourselvesindifferentstyleasweliketo

(3)WhichofthefollowingStatementsisNOTtrue?

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A．BasicEnglishiseasierforstudentstolearn.

B．Languagesarelikemirrorswhichcanreflectthegrowthofthemankind.

C．Grammarandidiomsarestillne