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Who taught you to speak English? Your parents, while you were a young child. Perhaps even the BBC as a grown-up. Whoever it was, somehow you have developed an understanding of what is rapidly becoming a truly global language.
There are now about 376 million people who speak English as their first language, and about the same number who have learnt it in addition to their mother tongue. There are said to be one billion people learning English now and about 80％ of the information on the internet is in English.
Is this a good thing, or a bad thing? Should we celebrate(庆贺) the fact that more and more of us can communicate(交流), using a common language, across countries and cultures? Or should we worry about the dangers of “mono-cultureness”, a world in which we all speak the same language, eat the same food and listen to the same music?
Does it matter if an increasing number of people speak the same language? On the contrary(相反), I would have thought－although I have never accepted the argument that if only we all understood each other better, there would be fewer wars. Ask the people of India (where many of them speak at least some English) and Pakistan (the same situation with India)…
If we all speak English, will we then all start eating McDonalds burgers? Surely not. If English becomes more dominant(占主导地位的), it will kill other languages? I doubt it. When I travel in Africa or Asia, I am always surprised by how many people can speak not only their own language but often one or more other related languages, as well as English and perhaps some French or German as well.
When we discussed this on Talking Point a couple of years ago, we received a wonderful poetic email from a listener in Ireland. “The English language is a beautiful language. Maybe it's like a rose,” he said. “But who would ever want their garden just full of roses?”
Well, I love roses, and I think they make a beautiful addition to any garden. But the way I see it, just by planting a few roses, you don't necessarily need to pull out everything else. If more and more people want to plant English roses, that's fine by me.
1．By saying “Ask the people of India…and Pakistan”(in paragraph 4), the author is trying to show that ________.
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A．speaking the same language doesn't necessarily bring peace
B．wars can destroy the relationship between two countries
C．English doesn't kill other languages
D．English is widely used in the world
2．The author would probably agree that ________.
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A．it's very hard to plant many kinds of flowers in a garden
B．it's good for people from other countries to learn English
C．more and more people like to plant roses in their gardens
D．English will kill other languages
3．This passage is mainly about ________.
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A．why English has become a global language
B．how people in the world learn English as a foreign language
C．how many people in the world speak English
D．whether we need worry about English being a world language
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As a boy grown up in India, I had longed to traveling abroad. I used to listen to the stories my father told me about her stay in Canada and trips to Europe in 1970s. My big moment finally come in the summer of 1998 when I was able to accompany my parents to Europe, where my father was to attend for a meeting. The service during the flight to Frankfurt was such nice that even today I can still remember them. The flight was really smooth and thorough enjoyable, even for someone as me, who is otherwise scared of flying.
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Now and again I have had horrible dreams, but not enough of them to make me lose my delight in dreams. To begin with. I like the idea of dreaming, of going to bed and lying still and then, by some queer magic, wandering into another kind of existence. As a child, I could never understand why grown-ups took dreaming so calmly when they could make such a fuss about any holiday, This still puzzles me. I am puzzled by people who say they never dream and appear to have no interest in the subject. It is much more astonishing than it would be if they said they never went out for a walk. Most people do not seem to accept dreaming as part of their lives. They appear to see it as an irritating little habit, like sneezing or yawning I can never understand this. My dream life does not seem as important as my waking life because there is far less of it, but to me it is important.
1. What is the author’s attitude toward dreaming?
A. He thinks it puzzling B. He likes it
C. He is interested in it D. He doesn’t accept it as part of his life
2. For the author of the passage, dreaming is________. .
A. another kind of existence B. an irritating little habit
C. a horrible but wonderful experience D. a true reflection of reality
3. The author of the passage suggests that people who say they never go out for a walk are_____ .
A. interesting B. unbelievable C. mysterious(难以理解的) D. lazy
4. The author of the passage enjoys dreaming most______. .
A. only when he was a child B. only when he is a grown-up
C. both as a child and as a grown-up D. only in his old age
5. Why does the author of the passage complain?
A. Because most people are overexcited about their dreams
B. Because most people are not interested in talking about their dreams
C. Because most people have had dreams most of the time
D. Because most people consider their dreams of to much importance
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