2015年职称英语考试试题：卫生类概括大意练习9.doc

2014年职称英语考试试题：卫生类概括大意练习（9） English and English Community 1 There is 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 of speakers of Chinese. 2 A speech community is similar to other kinds of communities. The people who make up the community share a common language. Often they live side by side, as they-do in a neighborhood (街坊), a village, or a city. More often they form a whole country. National boundaries, 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 (方便), we may divide the speakers into two groups: one ig 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 Learning a second language extends ones vision and expands the mind. The history 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 to understand and to feel 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. 23 Paragraph 1_________. 24 Paragraph 2_________. 25 Paragraph 3_________. 26 Paragraph 4_________. A Threat Posed by English B Definition of a Speech Community C Benefits of Learning a Second Language D Advantages of Learning Chinese E Two Groups of the English Speech Community F A Widely Used Language 27 Overall there are more speakers of Chinese than of_________. 28 The boundaries of a speech community may be different from_________. 29 People who live in different places may belong to_________. 30 Many p