2011年职称英语考试卫生C级预测题及答案(2)

概括大意与完成句子题

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 in 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 one's vision and expands the mind, The history and literature of a second language record the real and fictional (虚构) 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.

1 Paragraph 1__________.

2 Paragraph 2__________.

3 Paragraph 3__________.

4 Paragraph 4___________.

A Threat Posed by English

B Definition of a Speech Community

C Benefits of Leaming a Second Language

D Advantages of Learning Chinese

E Two Groups of the English Speech Community

F A Widely Used Language

5 Overall there are more speakers of Chinese than of___________.

6 The boundaries of a speech community may be different from__________.

7 People who live in different places may belong to__________.

8 Many people learn English as___________.

A a second language

B the same language

C the same speech community

D any other language

E national boundaries

F a part of one's heritage

【参考答案】1. F 2. B 3. E 4. C 5. D 6. E 7. C 8. A