摘要: “I have already eaten lunch. Said Mary.

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  About one hundred years ago, many educated people spoke French when they met people from other countries.Today most people speak English when they meet foreigners.It has become the new international language.There are more people who speak English as a second language than people who speak English as a first language.Why?

  There are many reasons why English has become so popular.One of them is that English has become the language of business.Another important reason is that popular American culture, like movies, music, and McDonald's has quickly spread throughout the world.It has brought its language with it.

  Is it good that English has spread to all parts of the world so quickly? I don't know.It's important to have a language that everyone has in common.Our world has become global and we need to communicate with one another.On the other hand, English is a rather hard language to learn and it brings its culture with it.Do we really need that?

  Scientists have already tried to make an artificial(人造的)language that isn't too difficult and isn't from any one group's culture.It is called Esperanto.But it hasn't become popular.Maybe the popularity of English won't last that long, either.Who knows? There are more people in the world who speak Chinese than any other language.Maybe someday Chinese will be the new international language.

1.What was the world language a century ago?

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2.Why has English become an international language today? Give at least two reasons.

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3.What can we get from Paragraph 3?

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4.In the last paragraph, what do scientists want to tell us?

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5.将第三段中划线句子翻译成汉语。

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  When you are learning English, you find it not clever to put an English sentence, word for word, into your own language. Take the sentence“How do you do?”as an example. If you look up each word in the dictionary, one at a time, what is your translation? It must be a wrong sentence in your own language.

  Languages do not just have different sounds, they are different in many ways. It's important to master(掌握)the rules(规则)for word order in the study of English, too. If the speakers put words in a wrong order, the listeners can't understand the speakers' sentence easily. Sometimes when the order of words in an English sentence is changed, the meaning of the sentence changes. But sometimes the order is changed, the meaning of the sentence doesn't change. Let's see the difference between the two pairs of sentences.

  “She only likes apples.”“Only she likes apples.”

  “I have seen the film already.”“I have already seen the film.”

  When you are learning English, you must do your best to get the spirit(精神实质)of the language and use it as the English speaker does.

(1)From the passage we know that ________ when we are learning English.

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A.we shouldn't put every word into our own language

B.we should look up every word in the dictionary

C.we need to put every word into our own language

D.we must read word by word

(2)The writer thinks it is ________ in learning English.

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A.difficult to understand different sounds

B.possible to remember the word order

C.important to master the rules in different ways

D.easy to master the rules for word order

(3)We can learn from the passage that ________.

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A.the meaning of an English sentence always changes with the order of the words

B.the order of words can never change the meaning of an English sentence

C.sometimes different order of words has a different meaning

D.if the order of words is different, the meaning of the sentence must be different

(4)“She only likes apples.”

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A.is the same as“Only she likes apples.”

B.is different from“Only she likes apples.”

C.means“She likes fruit except apples.”

D.means“She doesn't like apples.”

(5)Which is the best tire for this passage?

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A.Different Orders, Different Meanings

B.How to Speak English

C.How to Put English into Our Own Language

D.How to Learn English

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