学位英语

English and English Community

1 There is no doubt that English is a useful language.The people who speak English today make up the largest speech community in the world with the exception of speakers of Chinese.

2 A speech community is similar to other kinds of communities.The people who make up the community share a common language.Often they live side by side,as they do in a neighborhood (街坊),a village,or a city.More often they form a whole country.National boundaries,however,are not always the same as the boundaries of a speech community.A speech community is any group of people who speak the same language no matter where they happen to live.

3 We may say that anyone who speaks English belongs to the English speech community.For convenience(方便),we may divide the speakers into two groups:one in which the speakers use English as their native language,the other in which the speakers 1earn English as a second language for the purpose of education,commerce,and so on.

4 Learning a second language extends one's vision and expands the mind.The history and literature of a second language record the real and fictional(虚构的)lives of people and their culture;a knowledge of them adds to our ability to understand and to feel as they feel.Learning English as a second language provides another means of communication through which the window of the entire English speech community becomes a part of our heritage.

23 Paragraph 1___________.

24 Paragraph 2___________.

25 Paragraph 3___________.

26 Paragraph 4___________.

A.Threat Posed by English

B.Definition of a Speech Community

C.Benefits of Learning a Second Language

D.Advantages of Learning Chinese

E.Two Groups of the English Speech Community

F.A Widely Used Language

27.Overall there are more speakers of Chinese than of ___________

28.The boundaries of a speech community may be different from ___________.

29.People who live in different places may belong to ___________.

30.Many people learn English as ___________.

A.a second language

B.the same language

C.the same speech community

D.any other language

E.national boundaries

F.a part of one's heritage

参考答案：F B E C D E C A

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