1 . Online, English has become a common language for users from around the world. In the process, the language itself is changing. There are now thought to be some 4.5 billion web pages worldwide. Some language experts predict that within 10 years English will occupy the internet — but in forms very different to what we accept and recognize as English today.
That’s because people who speak English as a second language already outnumber native speakers. And increasingly, they use it to communicate with other non-native speakers, particularly on the internet where less attention is paid to grammar and spelling and users don’t have to worry about their accent (口音).
Users of Facebook already socialize in a number of different “Englishes” including Indian English, Spanish English and Korean English. While these different styles have long existed within their cultures, they’re now expanding and coming online. Technology companies are introducing newly-developed English words with products aimed at enabling users to add words that are not already in the English dictionary. And most large companies have English websites, while smaller businesses are learning that they need a common language — English — to reach global customers.
The increasing popularity of the internet allows more languages to develop quickly. “Most people actually speak several languages — it’s less common to only speak one,” says Mr. Munro. “English has taken its place as the world’s common language, but it’s not pushing out other languages.” Instead, other languages are pushing their way into English, and in the process creating something new.
1. Which of the following is NOT true about online communication?| A．People need to spell exactly. | B．Grammar is not so important. |
| C．People do not care about their accent. | D．Most English-speakers are not native speakers. |
| A．We can only communicate online in English. |
| B．It’s impossible to find all the English words in the dictionary. |
| C．Some technology companies start to publish English dictionaries. |
| D．Smaller businesses are not allowed to have English websites. |
| A．The other languages are enriching English. |
| B．One can’t live well without speaking several languages. |
| C．English will become the only language in the world. |
| D．Chinese used to be the world’s common language. |
| A．English is a common language around the world. |
| B．There are now many different language styles. |
| C．English language is developing with the Internet. |
| D．Smaller businesses are learning a common language. |
2 . It's March 12th. Li Li and Lin Tao are digging on a hill not far from their school. In China, people across the country plant trees
The idea of planting trees was first put forward in 1911 by Sun Zhongshan, the great
"Everyone has heard of the Great Wall of China," says Li Li. "But have you heard of the Green Wall of China? That's the biggest tree planting
"Tree planting has become a tradition in China now," says Lin Tao. "Almost everyone does it on March 12th. Many people also plant a tree on a
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| A．artist | B．engineer | C．pioneer | D．musician |
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3 . When I was in high school and college, I went to fast food restaurants pretty often. Even until today, fast food is a popular choice among students. So, what makes fast food restaurants really popular year after year?
The food is not very expensive.
Nowadays, many fast food restaurants open till late nights.
You can try telling them some fast food is unhealthy, but I doubt if youngsters will listen.
| A．Fast food does not have to be bad for you. |
| B．Many teenagers do not have much money. |
| C．Fast food is still popular with many of them. |
| D．At fast food restaurants, you choose what you want. |
| E．Today, fast food restaurants are offering healthier food. |
| F．A fast food restaurant is a good place for some activities for teenagers. |
| G．So, these places are comfortable and safe to hang out during late nights. |
4 . One devoted man is helping to make sure that children with poor living conditions won’t go hungry during the school day.
Mary’s Meals, an organization founded in 2002 by Scottish farmer Magnus Macfarlane- Barrow, provides needy kids in 12 countries with free meals at school each weekday. The group’s aim is to ensure that students have food in their stomachs so they can better fix their attention on the study in class.
Macfarlane-Barrow, who runs Mary’s Meals on his father’s farm, told CNN that the entire operation started with a conversation he had with a teen living in a poor state. He said, “In 2002, I was in Malawi during a year of terribly short of food, and I met this family—the father had died, and the mother was dying with her six children around her. I began talking to her oldest child, Edward, who was about 14, and asked him, ‘What are your hopes?’ And he said, ‘I’d like to have enough food to eat, and I’d like to go to school one day’” And that was it.
In its first year, the group fed 200 children in need. Since that time, it has made rapid progress. Last month, Mary’s Meals fed more than one million children every school day. That was 5 million meals every week. “The million is amazingly important, but we are far from satisfied. Our work’s just beginning. We’ve proved that this works, and now we’ve just thinking about the next child,” said Macfarlane-Barrow.
He and the group recently celebrated the achievement in Malawi, where the program began. So far, the program has had very good results. In Malawi, schools that carried out the Mary’s Meals program saw a 24 percent increase in the number of new students within the first six months.
1. Why did Macfarlane-Barrow found Mary’s Meals?| A．He hoped to provide free food for poor families. |
| B．He expected to teach children how to help others. |
| C．He wanted to make children free of hunger in class. |
| D．He wished to become well-known by helping others. |
| A．The success of helping a needy kid. |
| B．The conversation with a poor child. |
| C．The terribly short of food in Malawi. |
| D．The poor living conditions of schools. |
| A．Schools in Malawi are popular. |
| B．No children suffer from hunger now. |
| C．Mary’s Meals program has been very successful. |
| D．Macfarlane-Barrow is satisfied with the present result. |
| A．Edward’s Dream Came into Reality |
| B．Mary’s Meals Program Shocked the World |
| C．Malawi Gets Away from Being Short of Food |
| D．A Farmer Feeds One Million Kids Every School Day |
On the first day of my senior high, I
Then, Mr. Meng explained that in senior high school life, we might sometimes be put under pressure by
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7 . The cultures of the East and the West are really different from each other a lot. This is because the culture systems are two separate ones on the whole.
The origin (起源) of the Eastern culture is mainly from two countries: China and India. Both of the two cultures are developed by rivers — the Yellow River in China and the Hindu River in India. They helped the two cultures develop for centuries and form their own styles.
When the two mother rivers gave birth to the Eastern culture, another famous culture was up on the Mesopotamian Plain — the Mesopotamian Civilization. This civilization later on developed into the cultures of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. And these two are well-known as the base of the European culture. Like the Chinese culture, the European culture also crossed waters. When the British settled down in America, their culture went with them over the Atlantic Ocean. So the American culture doesn’t have much difference from the European culture.
At the same time, some other differences add to the cultural differences. Take the language system for example. In the East, most languages belong to the pictographic (象形) language while the western languages are mostly based on the Latin system. Other causes like human race differences count as well. But what’s more, due to the far distance and the steep areas between the East and the west, the two cultures seldom communicate until recent centuries. So they grew up totally in their own ways with almost no interference from the other.
The differences are everywhere. They are obvious and make people’s ways of thinking and their views of the world different. But different cultures make the world of 21st century more colorful. The cultural difference should not be the obstacle (障碍) to the civilization of human being. It ought to be the driving force of our going farther.
1. What is the text mainly about?| A．The origin of cultures. | B．Culture differences. |
| C．Language systems. | D．Colorful world. |
| A．Both of the two cultures have a very long history. |
| B．They have the same mother rivers as the Chinese culture. |
| C．The early settlers from Britain brought their culture to America. |
| D．Both the British and the American live along the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. |
| A．difference | B．influence |
| C．confidence | D．environment |
| A．A diary. | B．A magazine. |
| C．A novel. | D．A guidebook. |
