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English may not be a world language forever

　　While 375 million people around the globe use English as their mother tongue, the number of people using it as a second language has already been well over that figure.

　　It is said that by the end of 2000, one billion people could use English to communicate with others, including both native speakers and non-native speakers.

　　“The rise and fall of a language is closely connected with that country's economic strength and development potential(潜力),” Rhodri Jones, the English 2000 manager of the ELT group of the British Council said.

　　An expert who has given many lectures on the future of English said that the economic boost(快速发展) in Asia would raise the positions of the Chinese and Hindi languages. Therefore, the English language is facing a serious problem. Where will English turn in the next 50 years or the century?

　　The recently introduced book from Britain Future of English might give people concerned with this question some enlightenments(启发). The book helps English teachers, planners, managers and decision makers with a professional interest in the development of English worldwide.

　　With the book written in English translated into Chinese and to be published soon, the book might be brought to a wider sphere of people.

　　“From the book, we learn many facts about the English language, and we may be able to predict(预测) its future after reading it,” said Dorothy Humphery, who used to be a senior English teacher for the British Council.

1．The reason why some language rises in the world depends on ________.

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A．the population of the country

B．the country's economy strength in the world

C．the number of the population who use it

D．the country's economy strength and development potential

2．The book Future of English helps to ________.

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A．improve the standard of people's learning English

B．add to people's interest toward English

C．emphasize(强调) the importance of English in the world

D．make people interested in the development of English worldwide

3．After reading Future of English we know ________.

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A．English is the language that people speak most in the world

B．English may disappear sooner or later

C．the world is keeping changing from time to time

D．what the future of the English language is

4．The main idea of the passage is ________.

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A．why English has been popular in the world

B．how to improve people's ability of learning English

C．English has a bright future

D．the usage of English may become less in the world one day

答案：D;D;D;D
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　　Two year s ago, Wendy Ha snip, 47，experienced a brain injury that left her speechle s s for two week s．When she finally recovered, she found her self talking with what seemed to be a French accent．“I phoned a friend the other day, and she spent the fir st ten minute s laughing, ” Ha snip said at the time, “while I have nothing again st the French．”

　　Ha snip suffered from foreign accent syndrome(外国口音综合症), a rare condition in which people find them selve s speaking their own language like someone from a foreign country．The condition u sually occur s in people who have experienced a head injury or a stroke-a sudden lo s s of con sciou sne s s, sen sation, or movement cau sed by a blocked or broken blood ve s selin the brain．

　　The condition wa s fir st identified during the Second World War in a Norwegian woman who se head wa s injured during an attack by the German military．The woman recovered but wa s left with a German-sounding accent, to the horror of fellow villager s who avoided her after that．

　　Re searcher s have di scovered that the combined effect of the damage to several part s of the brain make s victim s lengthen certain syllable, mi spronounce sound s, and change the normal pitch(音高)of their voice．Tho se change s in speech add up to what sound s like a foreign accent．

　　Another re searcher, a phonetician, say s victim s of the syndrome don't acquire a true foreign accent．Their strangely changed speech only re semble s the foreign accent with which it ha s a few sound s in common．

　　When an Engli sh woman named Annie recently developed foreign accent syndrome after a stroke, she spoke with what seemed to be a Scotti sh accent．However, Annie' s Scotti sh coworker s said she didn't sound at all like a Scot．

(1)

According to the pa s sage, people ________ may have foreign accent syndrome．

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A．

who se parent ha s experienced a head injury

B．

who have lived in a foreign country for a long time

C．

who have lo st their con sciou sne s s owing to a stroke

D．

who have learned foreign language from their coworker s

(2)

If a per son suffer s foreign accent syndrome, ________．

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A．

hi s coworker s will be afraid of him and avoid contacting with him

B．

he ha s more chance of suffering stroke again

C．

he will speak a fluent foreign language like native speaker s

D．

hi s speech only ha s a few sound s in common with the foreign accent

(3)

Writing thi s pa s sage, the writer' s main purpo se i s to ________．

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A．

introduce foreign accent syndrome and some related information

B．

warn people not to be at the ri sk of experiencing a stroke

C．

make it clear that foreign accent syndrome can be cured

D．

tell a story of an injured woman during the Second World War

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