阅读下面材料，回答下列的问题：EnglishandEnglishCommunity(1)ThereisnodoubtthatEnglishisause

共享题干题阅读下面材料，回答下列的问题：English and English Community(1)Thereis no doubt that English is a useful language. The people who speak English today make up the largest speech community in the world with the exception ofspeakers of Chinese.(2)Aspeech community is similar to other kinds of communities. The people who makeup the community share a common language. Often they live side by side, as theydo in a neighbor- hood (街坊), a village, or a city. More often theyform a whole country. National bound- aries, however, are not always the sameas the boundaries of a speech community. A speech community is any group ofpeople who speak the same language no matter where they happen to live. (3)We maysay that anyone who speaks English belongs to the English speech community. Forconvenience (方便) we may divide the speakers into two groups:one in which the speakersuse English ~ s their native language, the other in which the speakers learnEnglish as a second language for the purpose of education, commerce, and so on. (4)Learning a second language extends one's vision and expands the minD、Thehistory 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 tounderstand and to feel as they feel. Learning English as a second languageprovides another means of communication through which the window of the entireEnglish speech community becomes a part of our heritage. 1.[不定向选择题]Paragraph 4 __________A.Threat Posed by English B.Definition of a Speech Community C.Benefits of Learning a Second Language D.Advantages of Learning ChineseE.Two Groups of the English Speech CommunityF.A Widely Used LanguageABCDEF确定 2.[不定向选择题]People who live in different places may belong to __________A.a second language B.the same language C.the same speech community D.any other languageE.national boundarieF.a part Of one’S heritageABCDEF确定

1.参考答案：C
参考解析：题干：第四段的段落大意为__________。?文章第四段的主题句为首句“Learninga second language extends one’Svision and expands theminD、”，即“学习第二语言可以开闰眼界和拓展心智”，由此可知答案为C(学习第二语言的益处)。
2.参考答案：C
参考解析：住在不同地方的人们可能属于__________。?利用关键词live indifferent places可以定位到第二段“A speech communi。ty is any group of people who speak the same language no matterwhere theyhappen tolive”，即“不管住在哪里，说同样语言的人属于一个语言社区”。所以答案为C。3.[不定向选择题]Manypeople learn English as __________A.a second language B.the same language C.the same speech community D.any other languageE.national boundarieF.a part Of one’S heritageABCDEF确定

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