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学科：英语 教学内容：English around the world 【语篇领悟】 阅读本单元对话与课文，完成下列各题： §1．1 细枝末节 1．How many people learn English as a second language? A．37 500 000 B． D． B． D． B． D．B． D．’s 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： C §1．2 主旨大意 7．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： D 8．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： A §1．3 推理判断 9．From Passage 1 we can infer that __________. A．English will be the only language to be used in the world B．native speakers of English might find it unnecessary for them to learn a foreign language C．the number of learners of English will become smaller in the future D．with the development of China’s economy, Chinese will become more important than English 答案： B 10．From Passage 2 we can infer that __________. A．American English and British English will become more and more different B．Noah Webster was proud of his own country C．languages change very fast D．students had better learn American English rather than British English 答案： B 【知识记忆】 §2．1 知识网络 1．majority n. 大多数；大部分 The majority of people seem to prefer watc