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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 |