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A、Those who can show their love romantically. B、Those who can speak American English. C、Those who can speak more than one langua
A、Those who can show their love romantically. B、Those who can speak American English. C、Those who can speak more than one langua
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2018-03-26
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问题
Do you want greater success in your career and your love life, as well as a healthy brain long into old age?
The answer could be to learn another language.
Or at least that’s the case according to a majority of Americans and Britons polled in a new survey by language app Babbel.
Apparently, 71% of Americans and 61% of Britons believe speaking more than one language makes a person seem more attractive.
Of 3,000 English speakers polled in the US and the UK, nine out of ten admitted they’d learn a new language in pursuit of love. About half said they’d dreamed about a romance with someone from another country.
And moving from the bedroom to boardroom, about one in four Americans and Britons think that being monolingual has held them back professionally.
So it’s probably no surprise that one in eight confessed to having exaggerated their language skills on a resume.
" Languages not only enable you to expand yourself in terms of perspective and skill set, but they also open doors and help you better understand other cultures and peoples," Miriam Plieninger, a director at Babbel, tells CNN.
" Knowing another language helps to break barriers and to connect on a special level of mutual understanding, be it while on the street, travelling, or in business. "
Globally, more than half the world can speak at least two languages—but Western English speakers are lagging behind.
A 2001 Gallup poll found about a quarter of Americans could hold a conversation in a second language—mostly Spanish—while a 2014 study by Eurobarometer revealed about 60% of people in the UK and Ireland are monolingual.
"Different factors influence how easy or difficult it is to learn a new language," says Plieninger.
"If the language you are learning is part of the same family as your mother tongue, it is generally much easier to access. "
Theoretically, English speakers should therefore be more comfortable with Germanic languages like German or Dutch, as both are historically very close to English.
However, familiarity picked up in everyday life or in the classroom makes a big difference, which is why Americans feel at ease with Spanish and Brits with French—both romantic languages.
And although the majority of Americans and Britons polled thought Russian was the trickiest to pick up, it’s actually "part of the same Indo-European language family as English," Plieninger adds.
"What makes it difficult, however, is that it uses the Cyrillic alphabet, which is a big hurdle for beginners, and it also has a different grammar structure to English. "
Questions 19 to 22 are based on the recording you have just heard.
19. According to the survey, what kind of people are more attractive?
20. What percentage of Americans and Britons think being monolingual blocks their professional development?
21. What language is easier for people to learn?
22. What makes Russian difficult to learn?
选项
A、Those who can show their love romantically.
B、Those who can speak American English.
C、Those who can speak more than one language.
D、Those who can learn a new language quickly.
答案
C
解析
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大学英语六级
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