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English as a Foreign
Language Who taught you to speak English Your parents, while you were a young child Your teachers at school Perhaps even the BBC as a grown-up. Whoever it was, somehow you have developed an understanding of what is rapidly becoming a truly global language. There are now about 376 million people who speak English as their first language, and about the same number who have learnt it in addition to their mother tongue. There are said to be one billion people learning English now and about 80% of the information on the Internet is in English. Is this a good thing, or a bad thing Should we celebrate the fact that more and more of us can communicate, using a common language, across countries and cultures (文化) Or should we worry about the dangers of "mono-culturalism", a world in which we all spea A. speaking the same language doesn’t necessarily bring peace B. wars can destroy the relationship between two countries C. English doesn’t kill other languages D. English is widely used in the world [单项选择] English as a Foreign Language
Who taught you to speak English Your parents, while you were a young child Your teachers at school Perhaps even the BBC as a grown-up. Whoever it was, somehow you have developed an understanding of what is rapidly becoming a truly global language. There are now about 376 million people who speak English as their first language, and about the same number who have learnt it in addition to their mother tongue. There are said to be one billion people learning English now and about 80% of the information on the Internet is in English. Is this a good thing, or a bad thing Should we celebrate the fact that more and more of us can communicate, using a common language, across countries and cultures (文化) Or should we worry about the dangers of "mono-culturalism", a world in which we all speak the same language, eat the same food and listen to the same music Does it matter if an increasing number of people speak the same languag A. speaking the same language doesn’t necessarily bring peace B. wars can destroy the relationship between two countries C. English doesn’t kill other languages D. English is widely used in the world [单项选择]The taste of the English in the cultivation of land, and in what is called landscape gardening, is unrivalled. They have studied Nature intently, and discovered an exquisite sense of her beautiful forms and harmonious combinations. Those charms which, in other countries, she lavishes in wild solitudes, are here assembled round the haunts of domestic life. They seem to have caught her coy and furtive graces, and spread them, like witchery, about their rural abodes.
Nothing can be more imposing than the magnificence of English park scenery. Vast lawns that extend like sheets of vivid green, with here and there clumps of gigantic trees, heaping up rich piles of foliage. The solemn pomp of groves and woodland glades, with the deer trooping in silent herds across them; the hare, bounding away to the covert; or the pheasant, suddenly bursting upon the wing. The brook, taught to wind in natural meanderings, or expand into a glassy lakc -- the sequestered pool, reflecting the quivering tr A. The English have studied Nature intently and know it very well. B. There is nothing that can be more impressive than the splendor of English park scenery. C. The English are good at decorating the unostentatious abodes of middle life. D. If Love came, it must prefer the residence of rich people to the cottage of an English peasant. 我来回答: 提交
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