BUnitEnglisharoundtheworld[].ppt

* 短文填空 根据课文THE ROAD TO MODERN ENGLISH完成下列短文。 At the end of the 16th century，English was only spoken by people from England. They were native speakers. Today，the largest number of people (speak) English may be in China. A lot of Chinese people speak English their foreign language. English language (change) quite a lot over the last four centuries. Old English sounded more less like German for it was on German，but English sounds more like French than German England was once ruled by the French. speaking as The has changed Danish based later because Two people had great effects on the English changes. One was Shakespeare，who (large) the English vocabulary；the other was Noah Webster，who wrote a dictionary gave American English its own identity. enlarged that/which Ⅰ.单词拼写 1．More and more American people have moved from old rooms into new (公寓)． 2．If you want to read quickly and well you should increase your (词汇量)． apartments/flats vocabulary 3．A dead body was found under the bridge，but it was hard to determine the ________(身份)． 4．Our (政府) is going to care more about the poor and weak. 5．Either you reach the ________(标准)，or you leave. 6．The office is on the twelfth floor，we’d better take the e . 7．He looks old，but a he is in his 30’s. 8．In summer，when a thunder storm comes up，there is always l and thunder. 9．I’m sure he is from the southeast according to his a . 10．Not having seen him for so long a time，I can hardly r 。 him. identity government standard levator ctually ightning ccent ecognize Ⅱ.短语填空 1．It’s more useful to learn modern lang