职称英语考试ABC [2018年职称英语考试卫生类C级概括大意随机练习9]
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 learn 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) 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 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 Leaming a Second Language
D Advantages of Learning Chinese
E Two Groups of the English Speech Community
F A Widely Used Language
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
【参考答案】1. F 2. B 3. E 4. C 5. D 6. E 7. C 8. A