题目内容
------ English has a large vocabulary, hasn’t it?
------Yes.____more words and expressions and you will find it easier to read and communicate.
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A．To know |
B．Knowing |
C．Know |
D．Known |
C
【解析】略
Planet English is the world's leading interactive multimedia software package for English language teaching and learning．
For Students
Planet English uses the latest in multimedia and information technology to support students who wish to learn English for international communication．
Planet English is an exciting, high-tech, interactive way of learning English． It contains more than 40 hours of video and audio recordings, over 2,500 0riginal graphics, 3,000 interactive screens and 80 different activity types including real time student voice recordings．
For Teachers
Planet English is more than just a computer program． It includes a package of resources to complement any Eng-lish language teaching programme． Teachers can easily integrate Planet English with classroom activities using the detailed Teacher's Manual（手册） and Student Workbooks．
Teachers can also manage the learning experience for students using the unique Planet English Courseware Management System (CMS)． The CMS allows teachers to tailor courses to their syllabus（课程提纲） and to students' needs by "mapping" content for classes or individuals． Activities and exercises that are relevant to the center's syllabus are then delivered to students in the appropriate lesson, ensuring students "navigate" to the right area of the programme of each lesson．
For Educational Managers
Planet English is the world's leading Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) program． It allows English language teaching centers to enhance the educational quality of teaching programmes, improve learning outcomes and provide professional development for teaching staff． Implementing（实施） Planet English allows English language teaching centers to maximize the benefits of computor hardware because it provides teachers and learners with an easy-to-use and highly productive CALL resource．
【小题1】The main purpose of this passage is to ．
| A．encourage more people to attend the Planet English course in time |
| B．promise everyone can learn English well without teachers |
| C．call on people who learn or teach English to interact with English speakers |
| D．introduce an interactive multimedia software for English learners, teachers and managers |
| A．Planet English can support the students who study computer． |
| B．Planet English can help the students and their teachers interact． |
| C．Planet English makes it possible for students to communicate with speakers from around the world． |
| D．Planet English offers only a range of spoken communication for students． |
| A．making a map of | B．making a survey of |
| C．making a detail planning of | D．establishing a mapping of |
| A．is attractive to students because it combines English learning with computer games |
| B．is popular with the teachers because they can manage the learning experience with the help of CMS |
| C．is designed for the educational managers to evaluate the teaching staff |
| D．is provided to students, teachers and managers for free |
| A．Interesting． | B．Interactive． | C．Practical． | D．Efficient． |
If you ask people to name the one person who had the greatest effect on the English language, you will get answers like “Shakespeare,” “Samuel Johnson,” and “Webster,” but none of these men had any effect at all compared to a man who didn’t even speak English-William the Conqueror.
Before 1066, in the land we now call Great Britain lived peoples belonging to two major language groups. In the west central region lived the Welsh, who spoke a Celtic language, and in the north lived the Scots, whose language, though not the same as Welsh, was also Celtic. In the rest of the country lived the Saxons, actually a mixture of Anglos, Saxons, and other Germanic and Nordic peoples, who spoke what we now call Anglo-Saxon (or Old English), a Germanic language. If this state of affairs had lasted, English today would be close to German.
But this state of affairs did not last. In l066 the Normans led by William defeated the Saxons and began their rule over England. For about a century, French became the official language of Eng-land while Old English became the language of peasants. As a result, English words of Politics and the law come from French rather than German. In some cases, modern English even shows a distinction (区别) between upper-class French and lower-class Anglo-Saxon in its words. We even have different words for some foods, meat in particular, depending on whether it is still out in the fields or at home ready to be cooked, which shows the fact that the Saxon peasants were doing the farming, while the upper-class Normans were doing most of the eating.
When Americans visit Europe for the first time, they usually find Germany more "foreign" than France because the German they see on signs and advertisements seems much more different from English than French does. Few realize that the English language is actually Germanic in its beginning and that the French influences are all the result of one man's ambition.
【小题1】 The two major languages spoken in what is now called Great Britain before l066 were
| A．Welsh and Scottish | B．Nordic and Germanic |
| C．Celtic and Old English. | D．Anglo-Saxon and Germanic |
| A．president, Lawyer, beef | B．president, bread, water |
| C．bread, field, sheep | D．folk, field, cow |
| A．Most advertisements in France appear in English. |
| B．They know little of the history of the English language. |
| C．Many French words are similar to English ones. |
| D．They know French better than German. |
| A．The history of Great Britain. |
| B．The similarity between English and French. |
| C．The rule of England by William the Conqueror. |
| D．The French influences on the English language. |
If you ask people to name the one person who had the greatest effect on the English language, you will get answers like “Shakespeare,” “Samuel Johnson,” and “Webster,” but none of these men had any effect at all compared to a man who didn’t even speak English-William the Conqueror.
Before 1066, in the land we now call Great Britain lived peoples belonging to two major language groups. In the west central region lived the Welsh, who spoke a Celtic language, and in the north lived the Scots, whose language, though not the same as Welsh, was also Celtic. In the rest of the country lived the Saxons, actually a mixture of Anglos, Saxons, and other Germanic and Nordic peoples, who spoke what we now call Anglo-Saxon (or Old English), a Germanic language. If this state of affairs had lasted, English today would be close to German.
But this state of affairs did not last. In l066 the Normans led by William defeated the Saxons and began their rule over England. For about a century, French became the official language of Eng-land while Old English became the language of peasants. As a result, English words of Politics and the law come from French rather than German. In some cases, modern English even shows a distinction (区别) between upper-class French and lower-class Anglo-Saxon in its words. We even have different words for some foods, meat in particular, depending on whether it is still out in the fields or at home ready to be cooked, which shows the fact that the Saxon peasants were doing the farming, while the upper-class Normans were doing most of the eating.
When Americans visit Europe for the first time, they usually find Germany more "foreign" than France because the German they see on signs and advertisements seems much more different from English than French does. Few realize that the English language is actually Germanic in its beginning and that the French influences are all the result of one man's ambition.
1. The two major languages spoken in what is now called Great Britain before l066 were
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A．Welsh and Scottish |
B．Nordic and Germanic |
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C．Celtic and Old English. |
D．Anglo-Saxon and Germanic |
2. Which of the following groups of words are, by inference, rooted in French?
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A．president, Lawyer, beef |
B．president, bread, water |
|
C．bread, field, sheep |
D．folk, field, cow |
3.Why does France appear less foreign than Germany to Americans on their first visit to Europe?
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A．Most advertisements in France appear in English. |
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B．They know little of the history of the English language. |
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C．Many French words are similar to English ones. |
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D．They know French better than German. |
4. What is the subject discussed in the text?
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A．The history of Great Britain. |
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B．The similarity between English and French. |
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C．The rule of England by William the Conqueror. |
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D．The French influences on the English language. |