English and English Community
There is no denying that English is a useful language. The people who speak English today make up the ___1___ speech
community in the world with the exception of speakers of Chinese. Originally they were small tribes of people from northern Europe who ___2___ in England. Their languages became more and more ___3___ to each other. Finally, the language
had enough uniformity to be used by all speakers in England. The people were united into a speech community through
their shared languages.
Speech community is similar to other kinds of ___4___. The people who make up the community share common language. Often they live side by side, as they do in a neighborhood, 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 ___5___ the same language no matter where they happen to live.
We may say that anyone who speaks English ___6___ to the English speech community. For convenience, we may classify the speakers into two groups: one in which the speakers use English as their native language, the other in which the
speakers learn English as a second language for the ___7___ of education, commerce, and so on.
English serves as an alternative language in several areas of public activity for most nations in the world which employ it as an ___8___ second language. English has been adopted as the language of air traffic, commerce, as well as international
diplomacy. Moreover, English is the ___9___ of the majority of published materials in the world so that education has come
to rely ___10___ on an understanding of English.
A. international
B. native
C. speak
D. belongs
E. purpose
F. language
G. communities
H. settled
I. similar
J. same
K. heavily
L. largest
Online Dating
Online dating is a dating system which allows people to make contact and communicate with Online each other over the
Internet, usually with the object of developing a ___11___ (romance) relationship. Online dating services usually provide
matchmaking over the Internet through the use of personal computers or cell phones
Online dating sites generally requires ___12___(apply) to provide personal information before they can search the
database for other individuals using criteria they set, such as age, gender, race religion and ___13___(locate). Most sites allow members to upload photos of themselves and browse those of others. Sites may offer ___14___ (addition) services,
such as online chatting, telephone chatting, and message boards.
Some sites provide free ___15___ (register), but may offer services which require a___16___ (month) pay. For example,
they may offer full access to profiles, but provide additional services to pay, such as ___17___ (place) users' profiles at the
top of the listing their profiles appear several times in different places in the search result and giving them a more ___18___ (advance) search engine to work with. In one real example, free users may only search for persons of ___19___ (specify)
age, gender and city, while subscribers may also search for such information as height, weight and interests. Other dating
sites depend on advertising for their income. In recent years such sites have become ___10___ (increase) popular.
“文化”这个词语当中,“化”的本义是( )
中国经典的“文化”是指人的后天修养与精神、物质的创造。其中,修养属于改造( )
人类存在和文化创造的先决条件是()
号称“世界屋脊”的是()
新石器时代结束于距今()
贯穿新石器时代重要的手工业是()
中国传统农业生产文化的基础是()
中国历史上第一个农业盛世是在()