发布时间： 2016年03月15日

理工类-概括大意（2月5日）_职称英语网校

概括大意与完成句子

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.

1、Paragraph 1 ________

2、Paragraph 2 ________

3、Paragraph 3 ________

4、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

【正确答案】 1、F 文章第一段介绍说世界上除了汉语之外，应用最广的就是英语了。

2、B 文章第二段主要讲的是什么是“a speech community”，即“a speech community”的定义。