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Module 3 unit 2 Reading填空 Module 3 unit 2 Reading----English and its history The English language _______ _______ _______ ______ the grammar and ___________ these people brought to Britain. That is _______ English has so many difficult rules that_ people. Old English is very ___________ from the English we speak ____________. Before the middle of the 5th ___________, people in Britain all spoke a language ________ Celtic. Then two Germanic groups from the ___________ _________ --- the Angles and THE Saxons ---_________ Britain. Old English ___________ of a __________ of their languages. (Both the English language and the English people are ________ _______ the Angles; the word Angle was spelt Engle in Old English.) _______ ______ place names such as London, very few Celtic words became ________ of Old English. At the end of the 9th century, the Vikings, people from Northern European countries such as Denmark and Norway, began to move to Britain. They bought with them their languages, which also _________ with Old English. By the 10th ____________, Old English ________ _________ the __________ language of England. When we speak English today, we sometimes feel _________ ________ ________ words or _________ to use. This is _________ English has many words and phrases from different languages, but with similar meanings. Many things _________ _______ _______ in the development of this new type of English.(Middle English) The most important ______________ was from the Normans, a ________________ people who __________ England and _________ _________ ________ the country in 1066. However, the ___________ ____________ did not ____________ English as much as the Angles and the Saxons’ victory about 600 years, which _______ _______ Old English ___________ Celtic. _________ __________ the Normans spoke French for the ________ 250 years they ________ England, French did not ________ English as the first language. On the other hand, the English language _______ _________ man