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People often think the English do not like to speak ___1___ languages. In fact, English is a mixture of words from many ___2___ languages.
Many English ___3___ come from Latin
(拉丁语), the old language of Rome(罗马),and also ___4___ Greek. From Latin we got words such as“wine”,“use”and“day”. From Greek we have words like“photograph”,“Bible”(圣经)and“ink”. There are ___5___ many words from ___6___ Greek and Latin together“television”,for example. Here“tele”is Greak for“far”and“vision”comes from Latin and means“seeing”.Many common ___7___ words come from very strange places.
“Tea”is from China and“banana”from West Africa.“Potato”came ___8___ the English language from Haiti(海地), and“tomato”first came from Mexico.In modern Britain there are four separate languages: English, Welsh
(威尔士语), Scotish Gaelic(苏格兰盖尔语)and Irish Gaelic(爱尔兰盖尔语). And the English language ___9___ is very different from one place to another. There are also many ___10___ in spelling, vocabulary and pronunciation ___11___ American and British English.The English language is always growing. Today, it has in fact ___12___ the language of the international trade, science and technology.
(1 )A.another |
B .others |
C .the other |
D .other |
(2 )A.kinds |
B .difference |
C .differences |
D .different |
(3 )A.people |
B .words |
C .language |
D .letters |
(4 )A.from |
B .are |
C .come |
D .of |
(5 )A.too |
B .still |
C .also |
D .either |
(6 )A.either |
B .neither |
C .both |
D .or |
(7 )A.English |
B .Latin |
C .Greek |
D .American |
(8 )A.for |
B .on |
C .from |
D .into |
(9 )A.It' self |
B .it self |
C .itself |
D .self |
(10 )A.differences |
B .difference |
C .different |
D .differently |
(11 )A.at |
B .in |
C .among |
D .between |
(12 )A.becoming |
B .became |
C .become |
D .becomes |