Question

   More than three thousand languages are spoken in the world today. Many ot these languages are spoken 1 small groups of people. On the 2 hand,over two hundred languages are spoken by one million or more people. Chinese is the language spoken by the 3 number of people in the world. But English is most 4 spoken in the world.

    English is spoken by more than four hundred million people 5 their first language. It is 6  by most people in the U. S. A. , Great Britain,Canada,Australia and New Zealand. And it is 7used very widely in many other countries of the world. Look at the back of your watch. You may see the English words “Made 8 China”，or “Japan”，even “Germany”.

   English is the first language in 9 of these. Why are English words 10 on it? That is because in the modern world English is widely used for business among different countries.

() 1. A. as   B. by   C. for   D. with

() 2. A. other   B. others   C. another   D. the second

() 3. A. biggest   B. bigger   C. largest   D. larger

() 4. A. wide   B. wider   C. widest   D. widely

() 5. A. of   B. in   C. by   D. as

() 6. A. spoke   B. spoken   C. speak   D. speaking

() 7. A. either   B. as well   C. also   D. too

() 8. A. at   B. of   C. with   D. in

() 9. A. no one   B. none   C. nothing   D. no

() 10. A. written   B. wrote   C. write   D. writing

Answer 1

1. B 2. A 3. C 4. D 5. D 6. B 7. C 8. D 9. B 10. A

[解析]本文介绍世界多种语言的用途。

1. B这些语言中许多只被(by) —小群人讲。

2. A on the other hand另一方面。另一方面，超过 两百种语言被超过一百万人讲。

3. C the largest number of最大数目。汉语是世界 上使用人数最多的语言。

4. D widely广泛地，副词。英语是世界上使用最广泛的语言。

5. D as作为。超过四亿人以英语作为他们的第一语言。

6. B be动词后接过去分词，故用spoken。大多数 美国人讲它。

7. C also也。它也被世界上其他许多国家广泛地使用。

8. D made in China“中国制造”之意。

9. B这些国家都不(none) 以英语作为第一语言。

10. A为什么英语单词写在(written) 上面。