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Unit 3 一﹑Fill in the blanks. Reading (1).T________ history, people from many different countries and cultures have lived together in Britain. That is why English is a language with so many (2).c___________ rules. Before the middle of the 5th century, people in Britain all spoke a language called Celtic. Then three (3).G_______ tribes from the European mainland --- the Angles, the Saxons and the Jutes – invade Britain. They each had their own language and Anglo-Saxon developed from (4).m _________these languages with Celtic. The language they created is what we now call Old English.Old English is very different from the English we speak (5).n__________. In fact, it is certain that we would not be able to understand it if we heard it today. The language (6).c__________ of an Anglo-Saxon base plus words from the languages of Denmark and Norway.When we speak English today, we sometimes find (7).i_____ hard to decide which words or phrases to use. This is (8).b _________many pairs of words and phrases have (9).s_______ meanings in English. Middle English is the name given to the English used from around the 12th to the 16th century. Many factors (10).c______ to the (11).d_________ of this new type of English. In 1066,the Normans (12).c__________ England and took (13).c________ of the country. However, the Norman Conquest did not have the same result that the Germanic invasion had had about 600 years earlier. After the earlier invasion Celtic had been (14).r _________with English. (15).D_________ this fact, French still had an (16).i_________ on the English language. Even today, where a person comes from will (17).a___________ their style of speech. This is called a (18).d________. If a person from the south of England goes to the north, he or she may find it difficult to understand what people there are saying. It is (19)c ________that this process will continue, and people there are (20)i__________ new words and new ways of saying things. Project The Chinese language (