【题文】English as a Foreign 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 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?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 language?On the contrary,I would have thought—although I have never accepted the argument that if only we all understood each other better,there would be fewer wars.Ask the people of India(where many of them speak at least some English)and Pakistan(the same situation with India)....
• If we all speak English,will we then all start eating McDonald’s burgers?Surely not.If English becomes more dominant(占主导地位的),will it kill other languages?I doubt it.When I travel in Africa or Asia,I am always surprised by how many people can speak not only their own language but often one or more other related languages,as well as English and perhaps some French or German as well.
• When we discussed this on TalkingPoint a couple of years ago,we received a wonderful poetic e-mail from a listener in Ireland.“The English language is a beautiful language.Maybe it’s like a rose,” he said.“But who would ever want their garden just full of roses?”
• 【小题1】By saying “Ask the people of India ...and Pakistan ...” in Paragraph 3,the author is trying to show that .A．speaking the same language doesn’t necessarily bring peace
• B．wars can destroy the peace between two countries
• C．English doesn’t kill other languages
• D．English is widely spoken in the world
• 【小题2】What does the word “garden” in the last paragraph probably stand for?A．Language.
• B．Family.
• C．The world.
• D．The culture.
• 【小题3】The author would probably agree .A．it’s very hard to plant many kinds of flowers in a garden
• B．it’s good for people from other countries to learn English
• C．more and more people like to plant roses in their gardens
• D．English is easier to learn than other languages
• 【小题4】What does the passage talk about?A．Why English has become a global language.
• B．How many people in the world speak English.
• C．How people in the world learn English as a foreign language.
• D．Whether we need to worry about English being a world language.
• 难度：一般
• 答案：
• 【小题1】 A
• 【小题2】 C
• 【小题3】 B
• 【小题4】 D
• 【解析】
• 本文属于议论文，主要讨论我们是否需要担心英语成为一门世界性的语言。
• 【小题1】细节理解题。根据第三段第二句On the contrary, I would have thought—although I have never accepted the argument that if only we all understood each other better, there would be fewer wars.可推出,更好的理解，战争更少，作者认为这一观点不一定正确，作者借助于印度和巴基斯坦来说明说同一种语言不一定带来和平，故选A。
• 【小题2】推理判断题。根据最后一段的最后三.句“The English language is a beautiful language.Maybe it’s like a rose,” he said.“But who would ever want their garden just full of roses?”可知，本文主要论述英语和世界之间的关系,因此如果英语是玫瑰,那么garden就应是整个世界，故选C。
• 【小题3】推理判断题。根据短文第三、四段If we all speak English, will we then all start eating McDonald’s burgers? Surely not. If English becomes more dominant(占主导地位的),will it kill other languages? I doubt it.可知,作者认为学英语并不是一件坏事情，故选B。
• 【小题4】主旨大意题。根据第二段第一句Is this a good thing, or a bad thing?可知，本文主要讨论我们是否需要担心英语成为一门世界性的语言，故选D。

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