Many English ___3___ come from Latin（拉丁语）, the old language of Rome（罗马）,and also ___4___ Greek. From Latin we got words such as“wine”,“use”and“day”. From Greek we have words like“photograph”,“Bible”（圣经）and“ink”. There are ___5___ many words from ___6___ Greek and Latin together“television”,for example. Here“tele”is Greak for“far”and“vision”comes from Latin and means“seeing”.

　　 Many common ___7___ words come from very strange places.“Tea”is from China and“banana”from West Africa.“Potato”came ___8___ the English language from Haiti（海地）, and“tomato”first came from Mexico.

　　In modern Britain there are four separate languages: English, Welsh（威尔士语）, Scotish Gaelic（苏格兰盖尔语）and Irish Gaelic（爱尔兰盖尔语）. And the English language ___9___ is very different from one place to another. There are also many ___10___ in spelling, vocabulary and pronunciation ___11___ American and British English.