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第3部分：概括大意与完成句子（第1~8题，每题1分，共8分）

阅读下面这篇短文，短文后有2项测试 任务：（1）第1-4题要求从所给的6个选项中为第2－5段每段选择1个正确的小标题；（2）第5-8题要求从所给的6个选项中选择4个正确选项，分别完成每个句子。

English and English Community

1 There is no doubt that English is a useful language．The people who speak English today make up the largest speech community in the world with the exception of speakers of Chinese．

2 A speech community is similar to other kinds of communities．The people who make up the community share a common language．Often they live side by side, as they do in a neighborhood (街坊)，a village，or a city．More often they form a whole country．National boundaries，however，are not always the same as the boundaries of a speech community．A speech community is any group of people who speak the same language no matter where they happen to live．

3 We may say that anyone who speaks English belongs to the English speech community．For convenience(方便)，we may divide the speakers into two groups: one in which the speakers use English as their native language, the other in which the speakers 1earn English as a second language for the purpose of education，commerce，and so on．

4 Learning a second language extends one's vision and expands the mind．The history and literature of a second language record the real and fictional(虚构的)lives of people and their culture；a knowledge of them adds to our ability to understand and to feel as they feel．Learning English as a second language provides another means of communication through which the window of the entire English speech community becomes a part of our heritage．

23 Paragraph 1___________ .

24 Paragraph 2___________ .

25 Paragraph 3___________ .

26 Paragraph 4___________ .

A Threat Posed by English

B Definition of a Speech Community

C Benefits of Learning a Second Language

D Advantages of Learning Chinese

E Two Groups of the English Speech Community

F A Widely Used Language

27 Overall there are more speakers of Chinese than of ___________

28 The boundaries of a speech community may be different from ___________ .

29 People who live in different places may belong to ___________ .

30 Many people learn English as ___________ .

A a second language

B the same language

C the same speech community

D any other language

E national boundaries

F a part of one's heritage

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