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The English language started about 1500 years ago in England. Three groups of people came to the country. They were the Angles, the Saxons, and the Jutes. These three groups brought their languages with them to England. After some time, the three languages became one new language—English. The name "English" comes from the Angles. They lived in most of England. "England" means "Angle Land" or "Country of the Angles".
The language that we speak today—Modern English—is not the same as the English that people used 1500 years ago, including Old English（before ll50）and Middle English（up till 1500）. That language—Old English—sounds different, and it has some different rules of grammar. There were only a few thousand words in Old English. But Modern English does come from Old English, and it is still like it in many important ways.
1.When did Modern English start?
A. About the year 1150.
B. Before the year 1500.
C. Between the 12th century and the 16th century.
D. About 1500 years ago.
2.How many languages did Old English come from?
A. One. B. Two. C. Three. D. Four.
3.Which language did the name "English" come from?
A. Modern English. B. The Angles. C. The Jutes. D. The Saxons.
4.According to the passage, Modern English differs from Old English in ________.
A. grammar B. pronunciation C. words D. All of the above
5.Which of the following is TRUE?
A. Modern English has nothing to do with Old English.
B. Modern English has more words than Old English.
C. Modern English has a vocabulary（词汇量）twice as large as old English.
D. There is no difference between Old English and Middle English.
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One morning， I got up early, so I went to outdoors for 1.__________
a change. It was so early when I left home that streets were 2.__________
deserted. Without the usual crowds and traffics, everything 3.__________
was very quiet. I made my way for the park, and found, 4.__________
to my surprise, that there were such many people there. 5.__________
Some were doing morning exercises, some were sitting
peacefully on the benches, some were feeding pigeons. 6.__________
One or two hours late, I left the park and walked home, 7.__________
feel much refreshed and very energetic. An old English 8.__________
saying suddenly comes into my mind, “ Early to bed 9.__________
and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and 10.__________
wise.” I do believe it.
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If you ask people to name 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 with a man who didn't even speak English---William the Conqueror.
Before 1066, in the land we now call Great Britain lived people belonging to two major language groups. In the west-central region lived the Welsh, who spoke a Celtic language, and in 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 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 1066 the Normans led by William defeated the Saxons and began their rule over England. For about a century, French became the official language of England while Old English became the language of peasants. As a result, English words of polities 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 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.
46.The two major languages spoken in what is now called Great Britain before 1066 were _____.
A. Welsh and Scottish B. Nordic and Germanic
C. Celtic and Old English D. Anglo-Saxon and Germanic
47.Which of the following groups of words are, by inference, rooted in French?
A. president , lawyer, beef B. president , bread, water
C. bread , field, sheep D. folk , field, cow
48.Why does France appear less foreign than Germany to Americans on their first visit to Europe?
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.
49.What is the subject discussed in the text?
A. The history of Great Britain. B. The similarity of Great Britain.
C. The rule of England by William the Conqueror. D. The French influences on the English language.
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The development of the English language falls into three periods. Old English lasted from about A. D. 450, when the first German people began to settle in England, until about 1100. Middle English extended from about 1100 to about 1475. And Modern English began about 1475 and has lasted to the present time. Of course the breaks were not as sudden and exact as these dates suggest. There has never been a year when the language was not changing, or a time when it was spoken without any differences between regions (地区) . However, the characters of the three periods are so different that a person who knows both Old and Modern English well will find a great deal of difficulty reading some of the Middle English writings without further study in the important points of the language.
1．Shakespeare produced his famous plays during the late 1500s and early 1600s ; thus we can say that he wrote in ________ .
[ ]
A．Old English
B．Middle English
C．Early Middle English
D．Modern English
2．A person who knows Old English ________ .
[ ]
A．would probably have little difficulty learning old German
B．would want to learn Modern English
C．would have no difficulty learning Middle English
D．would have difficulty learning other languages
3．The author would advise a person learning English for the first time ________ .
[ ]
A．to study the history of the English language
B．to realize that English is very difficult
C．to remember that English will be different as time goes on
D．to appreciate that English is spoken everywhere
4．Old English ________.
[ ]
A．lasted for 450 years
B．is still spoken in some areas of Britain
C．came into being because of German influence(影响)
D．had an unusual system (系统) of writing
5．The English language ________ .
[ ]
A．has stayed about the same for the last 500 years
B．should be studied by everyone
C．is a mixture of French and German
D．is the oldest language in Europe
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Before 1066,in the land we now call Great Britain lived peoples belonging to two major language groups. In the west-region lived the Welsh, who spoke a Celtic language, and in the north lived the Scots, whose language, though not the same as Wish-wash also Celtic. In the rest of the century lived the Saxons, actually a mixture of Anglos, Saxons, and other Germanic and Nordic people, 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 1066 the Normans led by William defeated the Saxons and began their rule over English. For about a century, French became the official language of England 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 between upper-class French and lower class Anglo Saxon in its words. We even have different words for some foods, eaten 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 farming, while the upper-class Normans were doing most of 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 advertisement 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 the man’s ambition.
1. The two major languages spoken in what is now called Great Britain before 1066 were__________.
A. Welsh and Scottish B. Nordic and Germanic
C. Celtic and Old English D. Anglo-Saxon and Germanic
2.Which of the following groups of words are, by inference, rooted in French?
A. President, lawyer, beef. B. President, bread, water.
C. Bread, field, sheep. D. Folk, field, cow.
3. Why does French appear less foreign than Germany to Americans on their first visit to Europe?
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.
4. What is the subject discussed in the text?
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 influence on the English language.
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