Unit 3 可做选词填空题如下： 1.You might argue that these sentences are somewhat unnatural. 2.Certainly, users of the standard forms of English in the United Kingdom generally understand their equivalents in the United States. 3.A second common misconception about language is that words have fixed and clear meanings. 4.We expect to learn it as we learned geometry or how to ride a bicycle------- systematically, and with clear ultimate success. 可做单项选择的如下： 1.Part of the pleasure and genius of language may well arise out of this slight “misuse” of words. 2.They have in fact embarked on an activity that could last the rest of their lives. 3.There are several men missing in that chess set. 4.The boat was manned entirely by women and children. 可做翻译的如下： 1.语言学习是一段无尽的航程。 2.当今世界人们使用的语言数以千万计，每一种都错综复杂。 3.When we talk about learning a language like English, Japanese or Spanish, we speak and think as though the language in question were a fixed unchanging thing. 4.Dialect-users in these countries, however, have serious problems understanding each other, to the extent that they may wonder if they are actually using the same language.