阅读理解

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The students were having their chemistry（化学）class. Miss Li was telling the children what water was like. After that, she asked her students, “What’s water?” No one spoke for a few minutes. Miss Li asked again, “Why don’t you answer my question? Didn’t I tell you what water is like?”

Just then a boy put up his hand and said , “Miss Li, you told us that water has no colour and no smell. But where to find such kind of water? The water in the river behind my house is always black and it has a bad smell。” Most of the children agreed with him.

“I’m sorry, children.”, said the teacher, “Our water is getting dirtier and dirtier. That’s a problem.”

1.The students were having their __________class.

2.Miss Li was telling the children what __________ was like.

3.A boy said, “The water in river behind my house is always __________”.

4.Most of the children __________ the boy.

5.The water in the river has colour and smell because it is getting _______

阅读理解

　　The English language we know today is about six hundred years old. For half that time, English was just the language of the English living in England. The modern English language grew by about the year 1400. Many words were borrowed from French and German.

　　As people from Europe traveled outside Europe, European languages began to be used in other parts of the world. At first, the languages stayed the same as those in Europe, but slowly they began to grow apart.

　　Today, the differences between American English and British English are not very great. Written English is more or less the same in both Britain and America, though there are some spelling differences. But people from the two countries can understand each other easily.

1．From the passage we've learnt something about ________.

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A．the development of the English language.

B．the beauty of the English language

C．the difference between English and modern English

D．the difference between American English and British English

2．The English language after the beginning of ________ century is called the ________ English.

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3．Many English words come from ________.

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4．European languages used outside Europe ________.

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5．People from England and America can understand each other easily because ________.

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A．they are good friends

B．they are kind to each other

C．they speak the same language

D．they have the same ideas

英汉互译配对，将B栏中的序号填在A栏中相搭配的短语后面。