【正文】 word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word。 for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each other. (A) The story of the English language is (25) ________ story of change. The Old English language, or Old English, is quite different (26) ________ Modern English. We can never understand Modern English (27) ________we study Old English. Some of the words are the same (28) ________ many are not used now. The story of the English language (29) ________ (begin) sometime after the year ,400. At that time, some people came to England from Northwest Europe. There were many groups of people. They were called Angles, Saxons and Jutes, (30) ________ language, Old English, is like some of the modern languages of Northwest Europe. In Old English, the ending had many meanings. They showed past time and present time and many other things. In Modern English, most of these endings are (31) ________ (go). This is the biggest difference (32) ________ Old English and Modern English. (B) Istanbul(伊斯坦布爾 ), the only city in the world (33) ________ is in two continents, is also part of both the ancient and modern worlds. As Travel website Fodor’ s put it, nowhere is quite like Istanbul, which (34) ________ (be) a lively city with one foot in Europe and the other in Asia for centuries. On March 24th, it (35) ________ (list) as one of the top destinations for 2020 by the world’s largest travel review website. So what makes Turkey’ s largest city so attractive to travelers? From the ancient city walls to the Blue Mosque(清真寺 ), Istanbul’ s historic buildings are breathtakingly beautiful. (36) ________ it is no longer the country’ capital, Istanbul is still the heart of modern Turkey, where East really does meet West. In conservative(保守的 ) areas, bearded men (37) ________ (wear) skullcaps(瓜皮帽 ) and baggy trousers pray, while women won’ t leave their houses without head coverings. Yet across the Bosphorus strait(海峽 ), you will see young Turkish men and women in designer jeans (38) ________ have never been to mosques in their lives. (39) ________ you are a fun lover, the city’ s markets and Turkish baths could keep you happy for your entire trip. But no trip is plete (40) ________ having a bite of the city’ s famous doner kebabs (土耳 其烤肉 ). As BBC reporter Brad Cohen wrote: “ Istanbul’ s kitchens are filled with artists chefs who can do things of beauty with eggplant and lamb.” Section B Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need. Recently, British university researchers said that a puter programme can help Asian students to deal with __41__ English accents which are difficult to understand. This is good news for students who get __42__ by different English accents. Computer scientists at Nottingham University said that some Asian students in Britain find it difficult to understand the range of different English accents. Among native English speakers, many different accents __43__. Some accents are easily __44__ by certain features. But more variations can be difficult to understand. Difficulties can be experienced in the process of distinguishing sounds at the end of spoken English words, like rope versus robe, and at the start, like tin versus thin. This can make __45__ speech difficult to follow, as misunderstanding a single word can potentially change the whole __46__ of a sentence. It would be useful to have something that would make it easier for foreign students to understand different English accents. The researchers’ Spoken Englis h Discrimination (SED) training programme can train Chinese speakers in how to sense differences in speech sounds in difficult conditions, such as accented speech or in situations in which there are a number of sounds in the background, a university release reported. “Our findings have shown that SED training programme really does have a significant __47__ on enabling Asian students to distinguish between sounds,” researcher, Nicola Pitchford said. “There is a (n) __48__ potential for SED. There has already been interest in the programme, from government anizations, to a major Chinese mobile phone pany who is interested in developing it into an educational phone __49__.” III. Reading Comprehension (26%) Section A Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A,B,C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context. Body language is the quiet, secret and most powerful language of all! It speaks (50)_________ than words. According to specialists, our bodies send out more (51)_________ th