概括大意練習題English

　　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.

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　　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

　　答案解析

　　23 F 文章第一段介紹說世界上除了漢語之外，應用最廣的就是英語了。

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

　　25 E 文章第三段進而將“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。

　　26 C 文章第四段主要講學習第二語言的益處。

　　27 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。

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

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

　　30 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。