概括大意與完成句子(第23～30題，每題1分，共8分)
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　　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 1earn 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(虛構(gòu)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 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

　　答案解析
　　23 F 文章第一段介紹說世界上除了漢語之外，應用最廣的就是英語了。
　　24 B 文章第二段主要講的是什么是“a speech community”，即“a speech community”的定義。
　　25 E 文章第三段進而將“the English speech community”分為兩組，即以英語為母語的人為一組和以英語為第二語言的人為一組。
　　26 C 文章第四段主要講學習第二語言的益處。
　　27 D 從文章第一段可以得知，說漢語的人比說任何其他語言的人都要多。
　　28 E 從文章第二段可以得知，“a speech community”的邊界與一個國家的邊界有可能不同。
　　29 C 從文章第二段可以得知，居住在不同地區(qū)的人們卻有可能同屬一個“speech community”。
　　30 A 從文章第二段可以推斷，許多人將英語作為第二語言來學。