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everyday speakers? One expert points out that the percentage(比率) of native English speakers is
declining (降低) globally while the languages of other rapidly growing regions are being spoken by
increasing numbers of people. But English will continue to remain widespread and important.
However, British language scholar David Graddol says English will probably drop in dominance (主导) by the middle of this century to rank, after Chinese, about equally with Arabic, Hindi, and Urdu. "The
number of people speaking English as a first language continues to rise, but it isn"t rising nearly as fast as the numbers of many other languages around the world, simply because the main population group has been
largely in the less developed countries where languages other than English have been spoken," he says.
In a recent article in the journal Science, Mr. Graddol noted that three languages that are not near the
top of the list of the most widely spoken now might be there soon. These are Bengali, Tamil, and Malay,
spoken in south and Southeast Asia.
David Crystal, the author of the Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, says about 1.5
billion of the world"s six billion people speak it as a second tongue compared to the 400 million native
speakers. But another expert on the English language says Mr. Graddol underestimates (低估) the future
of its dominance. "Nobody quite knows what"s going to happen because no language has been in this
posit
ion before. But all the evidence (证据) suggests that the English language snowball is rolling down a hill and is getting faster," he said.
B. be more important than any other language
C. lose its dominant position
D. die away in the near future
B. the English language snowball is rolling down faster than any time in the past
C. English language wi
ll soon drop in dominance D. more and more language users will choose English
B. 3.
C. 4.
D. 5.
B. Arabic.
C. Urdu.
D. German.
B. The Future of English? Who Knows?
C. Opinions from Different Experts
D. The English Language Snowball Rolling Down
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试题【阅读理解。 English is fast becoming the language of science around the world, but】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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before they start speaking, and later starters are often long listeners. Most children will "obey" spoken
instructions some time before they can speak, though the word "obey" is hardly accurate as a description
of the eager and delighted cooperation usually shown by the child. Before they can speak, many children
will also ask questions by gesture and by making questioning noises.
Any attempt to study the development from the noises babies make to their first spoken words leads
to considerable difficulties. It is agreed that they enjoy making noises, and that during the first few months
one or two noises sort themselves as particularly expressive as delight, pain, friendliness, and so on. But
since these can"t be said to show the baby"s intention to communicate, they can hardly be regarded as
early forms of language. It is agreed, too, that from about three months they play with sounds for
enjoyment, and that by six months they are able to add new words to their store. This self-imitation
(模仿) leads on to deliberate (有意的) imitation of sounds made or words spoken to them by other
people. The problem then arises as to the point at which one can say that these imitations can be
considered as speech.
It is a problem we need to get out teeth into. The meaning of a word depends on what a particular
person means by it in a parti cular situation and it is clear that what a child means by a word will change
as he gains more experience of the world .Thus the use at seven months of “mama” as a greeting for
his mother cannot be dismissed as a meaningless sound simply because he also uses it at other times for
his father, his dog, or anything else he likes. Playful and meaningless imitation of what other people say
continues after the child has begun to speak for himself, I doubt, however whether anything is gained
when parents take advantage of this ability in an attempt to teach new sounds.
B. they need different amounts of listening
C. they are all eager to cooperate with the adults by obeying spoken instructions
D. they can’t understand and obey the adult’s oral instructions
B. probably do not hear enough language spoken around them
C. usually pay close attention to what they hear
D. often take a long time in learning to listen properly
B. an early form of language
C. a sign that he means to tell you something
D. an imitation of the speech of adults
B .is not especially important because the changeover takes place gradually
C. is one that should be properly understood because the meaning of words changes with age
D. is one that should be completely ignored (忽略) because children"s use of words is often meaningless
B. children no longer imitate people after they begin to speak
C. children who are good at imitating learn new words more quickly
D. even after they have learnt to speak, children still enjoy imitating
阅读理解
Canada 4:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m.
Canada is a big country with six time zones. In the west, it is four a.m., and everyone is asleep, but in
Halifax on the east coast it is eight o"clock and people are having breakfast. It is a cold Friday morning in November, and the temperature is ten degrees below zero Centigrade.
Argentina 9:00 a.m.
In Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina, it is nine a.m. on a warm summer morning, and people are
starting work or school. November is a summer month in Argentina because it is in the southern
hemisphere(南半球).
Scotland 12:00 noon
Scotland is part of the United Kingdom. The capital of Scotland is Edinburgh, and the capital of the UK is London. It is twelve noon, or midday, in Edinburgh. Children are having lessons, but they are looking
forward to the weekend because there is no school on Saturday and Sunday.
Egypt 2:00 p.m.
Friday is already the weekend in Egypt. Friday is a special day for Muslims, so schools, offices and
shops are closed in all Arab countries. So now, at two p.m., most people in Egypt are having lunch with
their families.
Japan 9:00 p.m.
Japan is seven hours ahead of Egypt, so it is already Friday evening there. The weekend is beginning. Most people are out with friends or watching television or playing computer games.
New Zealand 12:00 midnight
It is late on Friday night, so most people are asleep. Now Saturday morning is arriving. It is morning in Canada too, but that is Friday morning!
B. four hours ahead of
C. three hours ahead of
D. the same as
B. going home
C. at school
D. having supper
B. Canada
C. New Zealand
D. Scotland
Zealand _____.
B. it"s noon and many people are having lunch
C. it"s the morning and many people are working
D. it"s the afternoon and most people are playing computer games
B. 2:15 p.m.
C. 1:15 a.m.
D. 2:15 a.m.
was__2__to the New World by the Spanish settlers.
The story of Tango as told is that it started with the gauchos (加乌乔牧人) of Argentina.
They would go to the crowded night__3__and ask the local girls to dance.Since the gaucho
hadn"t __4__,the lady would dance in the crook of the man"s right arm,__5__her head back.
Her right hand was held low on his left hip,close to his__6__,looking for a payment for dancing
with him.The man danced in a curving fashion because the floor was__7__with round tables,so
he danced around and between them.
The dance__8__throughout Europe in the 1900s.Originally popularized in New York in the
winter of 1910-1911,Ru
dolph Valentino then made the Tango a__9__in 1921.As time passed,the dance was finally considered__10__even in Argentina.
__11__vary in Tango: Argentine,French,Gaucho and International.Still,Tango has become one
of American "Standards"__12__its origin.The Americanized version is a__13__of the best parts
of each.The__14__involved are the same for any good dancing.First,the dance must fit the music.
Second,it must contain the basic characteristic that__15__it apart from other dances.Third,it must
be__16__and pleasing to do.
Tango music is like a__17__.It contains paragraphs (Major phrases)；sentences (Minor
phrases)；and the period at the__18__of the sentence is the Tango close.
For exhibition dancing,a Tango dancer must develop a strong__19__with the music,the
dance and the audience.The audience can only feel this connection if the__20__feels and projects
this feeling.So it is when dancing for your own pleasure-and your partner"s!
( )2．A.taken
( )3．A.meetings
( )4．A.rained
( )5．A.striking
( )6．A.wallet
( )7．A.big
( )8. A.spread
( )9．A.dance
( )10．A.respectable
( )11．A.Paces
( )12．A.because of
( )13．A.method
( )14．A.principles
( )15．A.takes
( )16．A.powerful
( )17．A.comedy
( )18．A.end
( )19．A.connection
( )20．A.musician
B．thrown
B．houses
B．showered
B．holding
B．trousers
B．slippery
B．expanded
B．hit
B．enjoyable
B．Styles
B．regardless of
B．motivation
B．objects
B．brings
B．practical
B．book
B．beginning
B．feeling
B．composer
C．introduced
C．clubs
C．rested
C．bending
C．pocket
C．flat
C．distributed
C．game
C．affordable
C．Times
C．in favor of
C．combination
C．purposes
C．puts
C．comfortable
C．notice
C．sight
C．desire
C．director
D．instructed
D．stores
D．smiled
D．trying
D．body
D．small
D．exploded
D．play
D．reasonable
D．Countries
D．out of.
D．reference
D．restrictions
D．sets
D．manageable
D．story
D．foot
D．potential
D．performer
d. But 1 a few of them are very 2 . English is one of these. Many, many people use it, not only in England and the U.S.A., but in other parts of the world. About 200,000,000 speak it as their own language. It is difficult to say how many people are learning it as a 3 language. Many millions are 4 to do so. Is it easy or difficult to learn English? Different people may have different 5 . Have you ever 6 ads( 广告) of this kind in the newspapers or magazines? "Learn English in six weeks, or your 7 back..." "Easy and funny! Our records and tapes 8 you master your English in a month. 9 the first day your 10 will be excellent. Just send ... " Of course, it never 11 quite like this.The only language that seems easy to learn is the mother tongue. We should 12 that we all learned our own language well when we were 13 . If we could learn English in the same way, it would not seem so difficult. 14 what a small child does. He listens to what people say. He tries what he hears. When he is using the language, talking in it, 15 in it all the time. Just imagine how much 6 that gets!
So it is 17 to say that learning English is easy, because a go
od command of English 18 upon a lot of practice. And practice needs great effort and 19 much time. Good teachers, records, tapes, books, and dictionaries will 20 . But they cannot do the student"s work for him.| ( )1. A. not ( )2. A. difficult ( )3. A. native ( )4. A. learning ( )5. A. questions ( )6. A. found ( )7. A. knowledge ( )8. A. make ( )9. A. From ( )10. A. spelling ( )11. A. happened ( )12. A. know ( )13. A. students ( )14. A. Imagine ( )15. A. using ( )16. A. time ( )17. A. hard ( )18. A. depends ( )19. A. uses ( )20. A. do | B. quite B. important B. foreign B. enjoying B. problems B. watched B. time B. help B. On B. grammar B. looked B. remember B. children B. Mind B. thinking B. money B. easy B. tries B. takes B. work | C. only C. necessary C. useful C. trying C. ideas C. noticed C. money C. let C. Since C. English C. seemed C. understand C. babies C. Do C. trying C. language C. funny C. has C. gets C. help | D. very D. easy D. mother D. liking D. answers D. known D. English D. allow D. After D. pronunciation D. felt D. think D. grown-ups D. Think of D. practicing D. practice D. silly D. takes D. costs D. master |
| 阅读理解。 | |||
| If Confucius(孔子)were still alive today and could celebrate his September 28 birthday with a big cake, there would be a lot of candles.He"d need a fan or a strong wind to help him put them out. While many people in China will remember Confucius on this special day, few people in the United States will give him a passing thought.It"s nothing personal.Most Americans don"t even remember the birthdays of their own national heroes. But this doesn"t mean that Americans don"t care about Confucius.In many ways he has become a bridge that foreigners must cross if they want to reach a deeper understanding of China. In the past two decades, the Chinese studies programs have gained huge popularity in Western universities.More recently, the Chinese government has set up Confucius Institutes in more than 80 countries.These schools teach both Chinese language and culture.The main courses of Chinese culture usually included Chinese art, history and philosophy(哲学).Some social scientists suggest that Westerners should take advantages of the ancient Chinese wisdom to make up for the drawbacks of Westerners philosophy.Students in the United States, at the same time, are racing to learn Chinese.So they will be ready for life in a world where China is an equal power with the United States.Businessmen who hope to make money in China are reading books about Confucius to understand their Chinese customers. So the old thinker"s ideas are still alive and well. Today China attracts the West more than ever, and it will need more teachers to introduce Confucius and Chinese culture to the West. As for the old thinker, he will not soon be forgotten by people in the West, even if his birthday is. | |||
| 1.The opening paragraph is mainly intended to ______ | |||
| A.provide some key facts about Confucius B. attract the readers" interest in the subject C. show great respect for the ancient thinker D. prove the popularity of modern birthday celebrations | |||
| 2. We can learn from Paragraph 4 that American students______ | |||
| A.have a great interest in studying Chinese B. take an active part in Chinese competitions C. try to get high scores in Chinese exams D. fight for a chance to learn Chinese | |||
3. What is t he best title for the passege?______ | |||
| A. Forgotten Wisdom in America B. Huge Fans of the Chinese Language C. Chinese Culture for Westerners D. Old Thinker with a Big Future | |||
| 4. The passage is likely to appear in ______. | |||
| A. a biography B. a history paper C. a newspaper D. a philosophy textbook |