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Today,when English is one of the major languages in the world, it requires an effort of the imagination to realize that this is relatively recent thing-that in Shakespeare's time,for example,only a few million people spoke,and the language was not thought to be very important by the other nations of Europe,and was unknown to the rest of the world.
English has become a world language because of its establishment as a mother tongue outside England,in all the continents of the world. This exporting of English began in the seventeenth century,with the first settlements in the United States,assisted by massive immigration in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries,that has given the English language its present standing in the world.
1. English was spoken by a few million people in Shakespeare's time...T....
2. It is considered as a mother language outside England....T...
3. English was spoken in North America in the seventeenth century....F.....
4. Most of the immigration in the USA do not speak English......F....
câu 2 ở trong bài nói as a mother tongue con ở câu hỏi ns as a mother language đúng hay sai
Read the text below and complete it with the verbs in the box. Use “used to” or the present simple (e.g. he lives, they live, ect.)
The lives of Inuit people of North America have changed a lot in 50 years. First, their name: people (0) used to call them Eskimos, but now they are called Inuits, which means “the people”. They (1) _____used to live_____ in igloos in the winter but today, many of them live in houses in small towns. They (2) _____used to hunt_____ seals – they ate the meat and made clothes from fur. Many of the people still (3) _____wear_____ seal-skin clothes today because they are very warm. Remember, the weather is extremely cold for many months of the year. To move over the snow, they (4) _____used to wear_____ special snowshoes on their feet, but today many Inuits (5) ____drive______ snowmobiles. These machines can travel long distances in a short time. In the past it (6) ______used to take____ them days or weeks to travel the same distance. Inuit children never (7) _____used to go_____ to school – they learnt everything from their parents. But now, like all North Americans, they (8) _____have_____ about 10 years of school education. Life is not as hard as it (9) _____used to be_____, but many of the older Inuits (10) ______hate____ town life and want to go back to the old days.
Fill in each blank with one suitable word
For hundreds of years English was spoken (1)..popularly.... by the inhabitants of English. After the discovery of the New World, (2)..then..... , English gradually (3)..effected.... to North America, to Australia (4)...and..... Mew Zealand, to Africa and (5)..... of Asia. Today around 230 million people (6)...learn..... English as a first language, and nearly too (7)........ more speak it as a (8)......... or auxiliary language
3. affected
_effect (n): sự tác động
_affect (v): tác động
Cloze tests
A. Complete the passage with the words in the box
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Great words of vocabulary Write between spelling say |
The differences (1) between American English and British English are not as (2) great as the differences in Chinese dialects. Two (3)of the differences between American English and British English are (4)vocabulary and spelling. In American English we (5) say elevator, truck, and apartment. The British say lift, lorry and flat. Another difference is (6) spelling . In American English we (7)write honor, meter, and realize. In British English, these (8)words are honour, metre, and realise
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B. Read the passage and choose the best answers
In other words, language is not necessarily the private property of those (1)........ use it, just as French is not the private property of (2)........ , nor English of Englishmen. English is spoken as a first (3).......... in the United States, in Australia, in New Zealand, in most of Canada, in certain nations of Africa, and in other areas of the (4)...... . It is unreasonable to regard any language as the (5)......... of a particular nation, and with no language is more unreasonable (6)......... with English. This is not to say that English is used by a greater number of (7)....... than any other language, for it is easily outnumnered in this respect by Chinese. But it is the most (8)......... of lamguages
1. A. Which B. Who C. Whom D. Whosr
2. A. Americans B. Dutchmen C. Englishmen D. Frenchmen
3. A. Language B. Luggage C. Baggage D. Country
4. A.Worth B. Work C. Word D. World
5. A. Possession B. Possessive C. Importance D. Necessity
6. A. That B. Than C. As D. So
7. A. Speakers B. Speaker C. Writers D. Writer
8. A. National B. International C. Conpulsory D. Official
In other words, language is not necessarily the private property of those (1)........ use it, just as French is not the private property of (2)........ , nor English of Englishmen. English is spoken as a first (3).......... in the United States, in Australia, in New Zealand, in most of Canada, in certain nations of Africa, and in other areas of the (4)...... . It is unreasonable to regard any language as the (5)......... of a particular nation, and with no language is more unreasonable (6)......... with English. This is not to say that English is used by a greater number of (7)....... than any other language, for it is easily outnumnered in this respect by Chinese. But it is the most (8)......... of lamguages
1. A. Which B. Who C. Whom D. Whosr
2. A. Americans B. Dutchmen C. Englishmen D. Frenchmen
3. A. Language B. Luggage C. Baggage D. Country
4. A.Worth B. Work C. Word D. World
5. A. Possession B. Possessive C. Importance D. Necessity
6. A. That B. Than C. As D. So
7. A. Speakers B. Speaker C. Writers D. Writer
8. A. National B. International C. Conpulsory D. Official
Language is a means of communication so each nation has its own language. However some nations have the same language. According to the speakers' use of language, it is called the first, second or foreign language. Among the languages used by most people in the world is English. This does not mean that English is spoken by greater number of speakers than any other languages, for it is easily outnemberred by Chinese in this respect. However, it is the most international of languages because it provides ready access to the world scholarship and world trade. That is the reason why millions of men and women try to master it.
Modern English is the (1) __form_______ of the English language (2) ___spoken___ since the great
vowel shift, completed in roughly 1550.
Despite some (3) _differences_______ in vocabulary, text from the (4) ___early____ 17th century, such as
the works of William Shakespeare and the King James Bible, are considered to be in Modern
English, or more specifically, are referred to as using Early Modern English
According to Ethnology, there are (5) ___over_____ 508 million speakers of English as the first
or (6) __second______ language as of 1999, a number dwarfed only by the Chinese language (7) ___in______ terms of the number of the speakers. However, Chinese has a smaller geographical
range and is spoken primarily in mainland China and Taiwan and also by a sizable immigrant
community in North America. (8) __On contrary_____, English is spoken in a vast number of territories
including the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, the United States of America, Australia, New
Zealand, India, Pakistan, and Southern Africa. Its large number of speakers, plus its worldwide
presence, have made English a (9) _public______ language for use in such diverse applications as
controlling airplanes, developing software, conducting international diplomacy, and business (10) ___relations_____.
1.B
2.A
3.C
4.B
5.D
6.A
7.C
8.B
9.D
10.A
Read and choose the best word for each sentence.
1. Out in the Pacific...Ocean ..., 3700 kilometers from Los Angeles, are the islands of Hawaii, the 50th state of the United States.
2. In 1778, Captain James Cook, the great English..explorer .., visited Hawaii.
3. Captain Cook put Hawaii on his maps of the Pacific. Ships...searching ..for whales began stopping there for supplies.
4. In 1820, a small group of people from the eastern United States came to teach the Hawaiian people about...Christianity...
5. These people started farms in Hawaii to grow sugarcane and, later,..pineapples .....
6. People from the various groups have married each other, so today the groups are partly..mixed ...
7. A lei is a long...necklace ...made from beautiful fresh flowers. Hawaiian people give these to visitors.
8. Hawaiians....earn ...most of their money from tourists.
9. Sometimes when people from different countries,....races ....., and traditions live together, there are problems.
10. Hawaii has many few....serious ...problems. In general, the people of Hawaii have learned to live together on those beautiful islands in peace
1)ocean
2)explorer
3)searching
4)christianity
5)pineapples
6)mixed
7)necklace
8)earn
9)races
10)serious
Điền vào chổ trống:
In the united states of america,the national language is (1)....also...english.Four hundred years ago,some english people came to noth america to live and they brought (2).....English....language to this country.
Now in the usa people speak (3)....American....english.Most of the words are the (4).....same....in america and british english ,but the america say some englhish words not as people (5)...speak.......in england. Canada is (6)...situated.....to the North of the United states of america .It is the (7)..largest.....the united states.In canada ,many people (8).....speak.......english because they also came from england many years (9)....ago......But in some parts of canada,people speak (10)...French......because they came from France.