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In this world, there are more than 365 million people whose native language is English .Of this number of people, only about 275 million 1 in the Untied States and Great Britain .The 2 60 million live in Australia, 3 , New Zealand, South Africa, some Pacific islands, and other places 4 British people settled.5 of the time, one English speaker 6 understand another.But in every 7 country, people added new words 8 their vocabularies (词汇) to name animals, plants, and other things that were 9 to the first British people who 10 there .British settlers in Australia 11 the word “kangaroo” for an 12 they had never seen 13 from the language of the people who were 14 to Australia .And the British who 15 to South Africa took “trek”, meaning a long journey by ox wagon (四轮运货牛车), 16 the language of the Dutch people 17 settled in the same place.
English speakers of 18 every country know what a kangaroo 19 and use the word “track” to 20 “difficult journey”.But some 21 “English” words are used only by the people who borrow or 22 them.A South African who talks about “kopjes” is speaking English, but only another South African 23 a Dutch person would know he is 24 of hills.Australian said, “There were some ropable people at the corroborate, ” only another Australian would 25 that he was talking about angry people at a party.
1.A.stay | B.live | C.settle | D.arrive |
2.A.another | B.rest | C.remaining | D.other |
3.A.Germany | B.Paris | C.Canada | D.Italy |
4.A.where | B.that | C.when | D.which |
5.A.More | B.Most | C.None | D.Less |
6.A.will | B.might | C.can | D.shall |
7.A.speaking-English | B.English-speaking | C.English spoken | D.spoken English |
8.A.into | B.to | C.for | D.with |
9.A.new | B.strange | C.good | D.useful |
10.A.left | B.flew | C.were born | D.went |
11.A.named | B.used | C.found | D.took |
12.A.animal | B.example | C.article | D.entrance |
13.A.ago | B.before | C.yet | D.again |
14.A.local | B.native | C.strange | D.new |
15.A.moved | B.went | C.settled | D.got |
16.A.in | B.from | C.by | D.through |
17.A.already | B.once | C.who | D.if |
18.A.hardly | B.almost | C.near | D.mostly |
19.A.like | B.eats | C.is | D.look like |
20.A.say | B.tell | C.talk | D.mean |
21.A.other | B.else | C.others | D.another |
22.A.discover | B.find | C.invent | D.make |
23.A.and | B.or | C.but | D.with |
24.A.thinking | B.speaking | C.making | D.writing |
25.A.mean | B.say | C.tell | D.understand |
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Ain’t What I Used to Be It has been said, "Be contented with what you have, but never too__1__with what you are." There is a story about a farmer who saw a tiger’s tail__2__between two large rocks.In a hurry, he seized the tail and__3__. All of a sudden he realized he had an angry tiger by the__4__and only two__5__stood between him and the tiger's teeth and claws! So there he remained, __6__to loosen his hold on the__7__ animal's tail in case he will surely be killed. A monk happened to go by and the farmer called out in__8__, "Come over here and help me.__9__ this tiger!" The monk said, "Oh, no. I cannot do that. I cannot take the__10__of another." Then he went on to deliver a long__11__against killing. All the while, the farmer was holding__12__to the tail of the angry tiger. When the monk finally finished his__13__, the farmer asked, "If you won't kill the tiger, then__14__ come and hold its tail while I kill it." The monk thought that perhaps, it would be all right to__15__hold the tiger's tail, so he__16__and pulled.The farmer, however, turned and walked away down the road. The monk__17__after him, "Come back here and kill the tiger!" "Oh, no," the farmer replied. "You have__18__me!" If the largest room in the world is "room for improvement", then it is good to leave__19__of room for change. A life of change! A life of growth! And always leaving room for__20__. It's the only way to live. | ||||
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In the depths of my memory , many things I did with my father still live. These things have come to represent,in fact, what I call 1 and love. I don't remember my father ever getting into a swimming pool. But he did 2 the water. Any kind of 3 ride seemed to give him pleasure. 4 he loved to fish; sometimes he took me along. But I never really liked being on the water, the way my father did. I liked being 5 the water, moving through it, 6 it all around me. I was not a strong 7 , or one who learned to swim early, for I had my 8 . But I loved being in the swimming pool close to my father's office and 9 those summer days with my father,who 10 come by on a break. I needed him to see what I could do. My father would stand there in his suit,the 11 person not in swimsuit. After swimming,l would go 12 his office and sit on the wooden chair in front of his big desk, where he let me 13 anything I found in his top desk drawer. Sometimes, if I was left alone at his desk 14 he worked in the lab, an assistant or a student might come in and tell me perhaps I shouldn't be playing with his 15 . But my father always 16 and said easily,"Oh, no,it's 17 . " Sometimes he handed me coins and told me to get 18 an ice cream… | ||||
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