Chinese is written in characters. How many characters are there? An 51 person can probably recognize more than 6, 000 characters while the most common computer encoding system in Taiwan and Hong Kong includes 52 13, 000 characters, and the 53 system in China includes about 6, 500 characters. However, 54 Chinese words are generally composed of two characters, only a few thousand characters can be used to understand many tens or 55 hundreds of thousands of words. 56 knowledge of 2 or 3 thousand is good enough for use of communication in Chinese. Chinese characters are often 57 for being overly complex relative to other 58 systems. One reason for the added complexity is the different information content of the characters. Roman letter give relatively precise information on pronunciation, but 59 information on meaning. In 60 , Chinese characters give less precise (and sometimes no) pronunciation information, but 61 give information on meaning. However, learning Chinese characters is not as difficult as one would 62 Firstly, because the majority of Chinese characters are Phonetic(語音) Complexes, learning to 63 them is not so diffi­cult. Secondly, because all characters are derived 64 a couple hundred simple pictographs(象形文字)and ideographs(表意文字) in ways that are usually quite 65 and easy to remember, learning to recognize and write them is not that hard either.

　　51. A. existed B. educated C. advanced D. analyzed

　　52. A. above B. about C. abroad D. aboard

　　53. A. correction B. symbol C. criteria D. standard

　　54. A. though B. although C. since D. even

　　55. A. even B. only C. rather D. also

　　56. A. Moreover B. However C. And D. Thus

　　57. A. praised B. acknowledged C. criticized D. appreciated

　　58. A. spoken B. writing C. written D. oral

　　59. A. much B. more C. less D. lots

　　60. A. contrast B. addition C. return D. abstract

　　61. A. not B. did C. then D. do

　　62. A. think B. tell C. consider D. see

　　63. A. pronounce B. sound C. utter D. say

　　64. A. among B. from C. of D. between

　　65. A. reasonable B. available C. logical D. sensible

　　參考答案:

　　51. B 52. B 53. D 54. C 55. A 56. D 57. C 58. B 59. C 60. A 61. D 62. A 63. A 64. B 65. C