It is commonly supposed that when a man seeks literary power he goes to his room and prepares an article for the press. But this

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问题       It is commonly supposed that when a man seeks literary power he goes to his room and prepares an article for the press. But this is to begin literary culture【C1】______ the wrong end. We speak a hundred times for every【C2】______ we write. The busiest writer produces 【C3】______ more than a volume a year, not so much as his talk would【C4】______ in a week.【C5】______ through speech it is usually decided whether a man is to have【C6】______ of his language or not. If he is slovenly in his ninety-nine cases of talking, he can【C7】______ pull himself【C8】______ to strength and exactitude (精确) in the hundredth ease of writing. A person is made in one piece, and the same being runs through a 【C9】______ of performances. Whether words are uttered on paper or to the air, the effect【C10】______ the utterer is the same. Vigor or feebleness is【C11】______ accordingly as energy or slackness has been in command. I know that certain【C12】______ to a new field are often necessary. A good speaker may find awkwardness in himself, when he【C13】______ write; a good writer, when he speaks. And certainly eases occur【C14】______ a man exhibits【C15】______  strength in one of the two, speaking or writing, and not in the other. But such eases are rare.【C16】______ , language once【C17】______ our control can be employed for oral or for written【C18】______ And【C19】______ the opportunities for oral practice enormously outbalance those for written, it is the oral which are chiefly significant in the【C20】______ of literary power.
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选项 A、mastered
B、demand
C、command
D、control

答案C

解析 考查名词的意义和用法。master和command都可以指对语言的掌握。have command of和have mastery of为固定词组,表示“掌握,精通”。这里have虽然似乎提示我们使用mastered,但master是及物动词,后面不跟of language这样的介词短语,所以 have后面应该用名词command。此外,demand表示“要求”,与上下文不符;control一般表示“对某人或某件事情的控制”。
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