EnglishandEnglishCommunity
ThereisnodenyingthatEnglishisausefullanguage.ThepeoplewhospeakEnglishtodaymakeupthe___1___speech
communityintheworldwiththeexceptionofspeakersofChinese.Originallytheyweresmalltr ibesofpeoplefromnorthernEuropewho___2___inEngland.Theirlanguagesbecamemoreandmore___3___toeachother.Finally,thelanguage
hadenoughuniformitytobeusedbyallspeakersinEngland.Thepeoplewereunitedintoaspeechcommunitythrough
theirsharedlanguages.
Speechcommunityissimilartootherkindsof___4___.Thepeoplewhomakeupthecommunitysharecommonlanguage.Oftentheylivesidebyside,astheydoinaneighborhood,avillage,oracity.Moreoftentheyformawholecountr y.Nationalboundaries,however,arenotalwaysthesameastheboundariesofaspeechcommunity.Aspeechcommunityisanygroupofpeoplewho___5___thesamelanguagenomatterwheretheyhappentolive.
WemaysaythatanyonewhospeaksEnglish___6___totheEnglishspeechcommunity.Forconvenience,wemayclassifythespeakersintotwogroups:oneinwhichthespeakersuseEnglishastheirnativelanguage,theotherinwhichthe
speakerslearnEnglishasasecondlanguageforthe___7___ofeducation,commerce,andsoon.
Englishservesasanalternativelanguageinseveralareasofpublicactivityformostnationsintheworldwhichemployitasan___8___secondlanguage.Englishhasbeenadoptedasthelanguageofairtr affic,commerce,aswellasinternational
diplomacy.Moreover,Englishisthe___9___ofthemajorityofpublishedmaterialsintheworldsothateducationhascome
torely___10___onanunderstandingofEnglish.
A.international
B.native
C.speak
D.belongs
E.purpose
F.language
G.communities
H.settled
I.similar
J.same
K.heavily
L.largest
答案及解析：1.此处需要填一个形容词作定语。根据后半句“withtheexceptionofChinese”判断前面应该用形容词的最高级,故largest为正确答案。largest非常适合此句语境:现在除汉语外,说英语的人构成了世界上最大的语言群体。2.此处的定语从句缺少谓语,因此需要填一个动词。备选单词中有三个动词:belongs,speak和settled。此处前半句为过去时,根据时态一致原则,此处也应该用过去时,故belongs和speak都被排除掉。此外,settlein为固定词组,意思是“安顿下来,在……定居”。3.此处系动词became后需要填一个形容词作表语,这个形容词还要和后面的toeachother搭配,纵观备选单词中的几个形容词:largest已用过,same,international,national和native放在此处句意不通,也排除,故similar为正确答案。similarto为常见搭配,此句意思是“他们的语言变得越来越相似”。4.此处介词of后应填名词。根据此句主语speechcommunities判断此空应填“communities”。此句意思是“语言社区和其他社区类似”。5.此题需要填一个动词作谓语。备选单词中有三个动词:belongs,speak和settled其中settled前面已选过,排除掉;belong后面不能直接接宾语,应该与to搭配使用,也排除掉，故speak为此题的正确答案。speaklanguage也是常见搭配。6.此处需要填一个动词作谓语。备选单词中的动词只剩下belongs,belongto属于固定搭配,意思是“属于”。belongs非常适合此处语境:可以这么说,讲英语的人都属于英语语言社区。7.此处需要填一个名词forthepurposeof属于常见搭配,意思是“为了…”,符合语境。8.此处需要填一个形容词。备选单词中有六个形容词:international,national,samenative,similar,largest。由于此空前面是冠词an这几个形容词中只有international前面用an。9.此处需要填一个名词。language非常适合此处语境:此外,英语也是大多数出版材料使用的语言……10.此句不缺少句子成分,因此此处需要填一个副词修饰动词词组relyon。备选单词中只有一个副词heavily.heavily也非常适合此处语境:教育已非常依靠对英语的掌握。
