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English as a Foreign Language Who taught you to speak English? Your parents, while you were a young child? Your teachers at
English as a Foreign Language Who taught you to speak English? Your parents, while you were a young child? Your teachers at
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English as a Foreign Language
Who taught you to speak English? Your parents, while you were a young child? Your teachers at school? Perhaps even the BBC as a grown-up. Whoever it was, somehow you have developed an understanding of what is rapidly becoming a truly global language. There are now about 376 million people who speak English as their first language, and about the same number who have learnt it in addition to their mother tongue. There are said to be one billion people learning English now and about 80% of the information on the Internet is in English.
Is this a good thing, or a bad thing? Should we celebrate the fact that more and more of us can communicate, using a common language, across countries and cultures (文化)? Or should we worry about the dangers of "mono-culturalism", a world in which we all speak the same language, eat the same food and listen to the same music?
Does it matter if an increasing number of people speak the same language? On the contrary (相反), I would have thought—although I have never accepted the argument that if only we all understood each other better, there would be fewer wars. Ask the people of India (where many of them speak at least some English) and Pakistan (the same situation with India)…
If we all speak English, will we then all start eating McDonalds hamburgers? Surely not. If English becomes more dominant(占主导地位的) ,will it kill other languages? I doubt it. When I travel in Africa or Asia, I am always surprised by how many people can speak not only their own language but often one or more other related languages, as well as English and perhaps some French or German as well.
When we discussed this on Talking Point a couple of years ago, we received a wonderfully poetic email from a listener in Ireland. "The English language is a beautiful language. Maybe it’s like a rose," he said. "But who would ever want their garden just full of roses?"
Well, I love roses, and I think they make a beautiful addition to any garden. But the way I see it, just by planting a few roses, you don’t necessarily need to pull out everything else. If more and more people want to plant English roses, that’s fine by me.
This passage is mainly about______.
选项
A、why English has become a global language
B、how many people in the world speak English
C、how people in the world learn English as a foreign language
D、whether we need to worry about English being a world language
答案
D
解析
这道题考查学生抓住文章主旨大意的能力。文章的第一、二段提供了本文讨论的话题的背景,即英语正在变为世界性的语言并且作为人们的母语或第二语言或外语被广泛应用。第三段提出了问题Is this a good thing, or a bad thing? Should we celebrate the fact that more and more of us can communicate, using a common language, across countries and cultures(文化)? Or should we worry about the dangers of“mono-culturalism”,a world in which we all speak the same language, eat the same food and listen to the same music?我们应该为这个事实感到高兴呢,还是应当为出现“一元文化主义”的危险而担忧呢?作者在以下各段就这个问题发表了自己的意见。因此应该选D选项 whether we need to worry about English being a world language.“是否有必要为英语变为世界语言而担忧”。选项B为枝节问题,而选项A和C在文中没有详细讨论,不是主题,故排除。
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