綜合類-概括大意（2月4日）_職稱英語網(wǎng)校

概括大意與完成句子

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(虛構(gòu)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.

1、1、Paragraph 1 ________

2、Paragraph 2 ________

3、Paragraph 3 ________

4、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

【正確答案】 1、F 文章第一段介紹說世界上除了漢語之外，應(yīng)用最廣的就是英語了。

2、B 文章第二段主要講的是什么是“a speech community”，即“a speech community”的定義。

3、E 文章第三段進(jìn)而將“the English speech community”分為兩組，即以英語為母語的人為一組和以英語為第二語言的人為一組。

4、C 文章第四段主要講學(xué)習(xí)第二語言的益處。

2、5、Overall there are more speakers of Chinese than of ________.

6、The boundaries of a speech community may be different from ________.

7、People who live in different places may belong to ________.

8、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

【正確答案】 5、D 從文章第一段可以得知，說漢語的人比說任何其他語言的人都要多。

6、E 從文章第二段可以得知，“a speech community”的邊界與一個(gè)國家的邊界有可能不同。

7、C 從文章第二段可以得知，居住在不同地區(qū)的人們卻有可能同屬一個(gè)“speech community”。

8、A 從文章第二段可以推斷，許多人將英語作為第二語言來學(xué)。

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