高中英语Unit 2 English around the world 阅读练习旧人教第一册上

Unit 2 English around the world 阅读练习阅读本单元对话与课文，完成下列各题：1.How many people learn English as a second language?A.37 500 000 B.375 000 000C.750 000 000 D.75 000 000【答案】 B2.In China we are learning English as a _.A.first language B.second languageC.foreign language D.mother tongue【答案】 C3.Most international organization use _ as their working language.A.English B.FrenchC.Chinese D.Japanese【答案】 A4.There was no difference between the language in Britain and America before _.A.1828 B.1838C.1796 D.1776【答案】 D5.The words _ mean the same.A.“color” and “center”B.“centre” and “traveller”C.“autumn” and “tornado”D.“tornado” and “typhoon”【答案】 D6.Which of the following is true according to the text?A.The differences in written English are greater than in spoken English.B.Americans and the British speak so differently that its hard for them to understand one another.C.Noah Webster helped to divide the language into British English and American English.D.200 years ago British dictionaries and American dictionaries were not quite different.【答案】 C7.Which of the following best expresses the main idea of Passage 1?A.There are more than 42 countries where the majority of the people speak English.B.The number of people who learn English as a foreign language is more than 750 million.C.English is the language of global culture such as popular music and the Internet.D.English is the most important and widely used language in the world.【答案】 D8.Passage 2 mainly tells us that _.A.American English and British English are in fact two dialects(方言）of the same language with some unimportant differences.B.American English and British English are two different languages.C.American English and British English are so different that we can hardly say they are still the same language.D.The English language began to change after America became an independent country.【答案】 A9.From Passage 1 we can infer that _.A.English will be the only language to be used in the worldB.native speakers of English might find it unnecessary for them to learn a foreign languageC.the number of learners of English will become smaller in the futureD.with the development of Chinas economy，Chinese will become more important than English【答案】 B10.From Passage 2 we can infer that _.A.American English and British English will become more and more differentB.Noah Webster was proud o