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1、最新2017职称英语综合类概括大意与完成句子模拟练习（7）2018职称英语考试时间职称英语网权威发布2017职称英语综合类概括大意与完成句子模拟练习（7），更多2017职称英语综合类概括大意与完成句子模拟练习（7）相关信息请访问职称英语考试网。English and English Community1. There is no denying that English is a useful language. The people who speak English today make up the largest speech community in the world with t
2、he exception of speakers of Chinese. Originally they were small tribes of people from northern Europe who settled in England. Their languages became more and more similar to each other. Finally, the language had enough uniformity to be used by all speakers in England. The people were united into a s
3、peech community through their shared language.2. A speech community is similar to other kinds of communities. The people who make up the community share common language. Often they live side by side, as they do in a neighborhood, a village, or a city. More often they form a whole country. National b
4、oundaries, however, are not always the same as the boundaries of a speech community. A speech community 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 community. For convenience, we may
5、 classify the speakers into two groups : one in which the speakers use English as their native language, the other in which the speakers learn English as a second language for the purpose of education, commerce, and so on.4. English serves as an alternative language in several areas of public activi
6、ty for the many nations of the world which employ it as an international second language. English has been adopted as the language of air traffic, commerce, as well as international diplomacy. Moreover, English is the language of the majority of published materials in the world so that education has
7、 come to rely heavily on an understanding of English.5. Learning second language extends ones vision and expands the mind. The history and literature of a second language record the real and fictional lives of people and their culture; a knowledge of them adds to our ability to understand and to fee
8、l as they feel. Learning English as a second language provides another means of communication through which the window of the entire English speech community becomes a part of our heritage.练习：1.Paragraph 2 _2.Paragraph 3 _3.Paragraph 4 _4.Paragraph 5 _A. The Wide Use of EnglishB. Historical Account
9、of English and Its CommunityC. The Advantages of Learning a Second LanguageD. The Composition of the English CommunityE. The Threat That English Poses to Other LanguagesF. The Definition of a Speech Community5.Only through the shared language_.6. The idea of the national boundaries is often differen
10、t from_.7. Speakers are classified into two groups_.8. An understanding of English_.A. that of a speech communityB. can a speech community be formedC. in order to learn English betterD. for the sake of simplicityE. has played an important role in the field of educationF. is widely used in several areas of public activity答案与题解：FDACBADE推荐访问: 第 4 页 共 4 页