2015年职称英语考前复习指导重难点集训（43）
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English and English Community
1. There is no doubt that English is a useful language.The people who speak English today make up the largest speech #munity in the world with the exception of speakers of Chinese.
2. A speech #munity is similar to other kinds of #munities.The people who make up the #munity share a #mon language.Often they live side by side, as they do in a neighborhood （街坊），a village，or a city.More often they form a whole country.National boundaries，however，are not always the same as the boundaries of a speech #munity.A speech #munity is any group of people who speak the same language no matter where they happen to live.
3 . We may say that anyone who speaks English belongs to the English speech #munity.For convenience（方便），we may divide the speakers into two groups: one in which the speakers use English as their native language, the other in which the speakers 1earn English as a second language for the purpose of education，#merce，and so on.
4. Learning a second language extends one's vision and expands the mind.The history and literature of a second language record the real and fictional（虚构的）lives of people and their culture；a knowledge of them adds to our ability to understand and to feel as they feel.Learning English as a second language provides another means of #munication through which the window of the entire English speech #munity be#es a part of our heritage.
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A Threat Posed by English
B Definition of a Speech Community
C Benefits of Learning a Second Language
D Advantages of Learning Chinese
E Two Groups of the English Speech Community
F A Widely Used Language
5 Overall there are more speakers of Chinese than of .
6 The boundaries of a speech #munity may be different from .
7 People who live in different places may belong to .
8 Many people learn English as .
A a second language
B the same language
C the same speech #munity
D any other language
E national boundaries
F a part of one's heritage
参考答案：F B E C D E C A
答案解析：
1 F 文章第一段介绍说世界上除了汉语之外，应用最广的就是英语了。
2 B 文章第二段主要讲的是什么是“a speech #munity”，即“a speech #munity”的定义。
3 E 文章第三段进而将“the English speech #munity”分为两组，即以英语为母语的
人为一组和以英语为第二语言的人为一组。
4 C 文章第四段主要讲学习第二语言的益处。
5 D 从文章第一段可以得知，说汉语的人比说任何其他语言的人都要多。
6 E 从文章第二段可以得知，“a speech #munity”的边界与一个国家的边界有可能不同。
7 C 从文章第二段可以得知，居住在不同地区的人们却有可能同属一个“speech #munity”。
8 A 从文章第二段可以推断，许多人将英语作为第二语言来学。
