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The number of speakers of English in Shakespeare’s time is estimated to have been about five million. Today it is estimated that some 260 million people speak it as a native language, mainly in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. In addition to the standard varieties of English found in these areas, there are a great many regional and social varieties of the language, as well as various levels of usage that are employed both in its spoken and written forms.
It is virtually impossible to estimate the number of people in the world who have acquired an adequate working knowledge of English in addition to their own language. The purposes for which English is learned and the situations in which such learning takes place are so varied that it is difficult to defme and still more difficult to assess what constitutes an adequate working knowledge for each situation.
The main reason for the widespread demand for
A. for both internal and international communications
B. for access to the development in other countries
C. for higher efficiency of the government and better life of the public
D. for wider communications among colonial nations
People usually pay more attention to avoiding disasters after they have been struck by them. (26) this concern, the year 2006 is a milestone for rational behavior. The memory of the violence attack 9/11 is still (27) in American people’s minds. After they saw hurricane Katrina, which is the most serious disaster in U.S. history on (28) TV, those people that didn’t know it before should have assumed that disaster can take place. They are made (29) worse by our wayward fatuity to risk as well as our (30) to work together before the thing goes too bad.
That is true. Some false opinion is probably part of the (31) condition. Pompeii was badly destroyed by a quake in A. D. 63. However, the local people went to work (32) quickly until they were buried together by a volcano eruption 16 years later in the same spot. However, a (33) of the past history of disaster shows that modern Americans are ex
A. behind
B. traced
C. followed
D. below
Nowadays, cities are becoming more and more crowded. Some pessimists (悲观者)are deeply worried about the serious problems caused by the huge populations. They believe that the public services are already overloaded and near the verge of collapse. Especially in some developing countries, the metropolis(大城市) are overcrowded all the time. Crowded streets, stuffed buses and jammed subways continuously affect people’s lives. Some optimists, however, see the current problems as merely part of an evolutionary process. They argue that London and New York had similar problems but were able eventually to establish an orderly and safe environment for their citizens. It seems that people become the controversial factor here. Either they themselves as inhabitants cause inconvenience to each other, or they participate together in city developing plans and contribute efforts to facilitate city life. Human elements are therefore the center for determining the future of big cities.
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