1、1语法填空(十三) 英语的前生后世+手势的文化阅读下面短文,在空白处填入一个适当的词,或填入括号中所给单词的正确形式。A 2018武威改编English World LanguageOnce people dreamed of a language that everybody in the world could understand. Now, for the 1. (one) time in human history, perhaps there is one English. It is the official language in more than 50 countries
2、and 250300 million people speak it 2. a second language. Some say that half the world will be speaking it in the year 2050. Difficult to Master?English is not the 3. (easy)language to learnmost of its common verbs are irregular and it has a large vocabularyat least 200,000 words are in common use. U
3、ser-friendlyBut some things make it easy. For example, nouns dont have gender(性别) and the usages of verbs are 4. (simple) than other languages. There is only one form to speak to someone 5. (direct)“you”. Adjectives dont agree 6. nouns, and many nouns are often also verbs. English Is EverywhereSome
4、other languages may have more 7. (speak), like Chinese. But English 8. (use) in many different areas. It is the language of transport: most airline pilots and air-traffic controllers use it. At sea English is the international language of 9. (communicate). The Future of English2What is the future of
5、 English as a global language? 10. another language replace it? Many think notit has been already too popular.BDifferent gestures(手势) mean different things in different countries. Sometimes a gesture that is polite in one country is not polite in another and should not 11. (use). Different meanings
6、of gestures can also cause problems in 12. (understand) what another person is trying to say. A gesture that many people do not understand is the 13. that uses the thumb. Most 14. (western) will sometimes show that they like something by holding out a closed hand with the thumb lifting in the air. T
7、his is called to give someone or something “the thumbs up”. Often, only one thumb is used, 15. it should be “the thumb up”. The usual explanation(解释) for the 16. (original) of this gesture is not really correct. It says that in ancient Roman times, when people were pleased 17. the way a gladiator(角斗
8、士 ) had fought, they showed their thumbs up. When they were not pleased, they gave their thumbs 18. . When a gladiator was given the thumbs up, the emperor allowed him 19. (live). When a gladiator was given the thumbs down, the emperor ordered him to be killed. The 20. (true)is, however, it was tran
9、slated into a wrong meaning by mistake. If people wanted to save the gladiator, they put out their hands and hid their thumbs in their hands. If they wanted the gladiator to die, they pointed their thumbs straight at him. 参考答案A 1.first 2.as 3.easiest 4.simpler 5.directly 6.with7.speakers 8.is used munication 10.Will B 11.be used 12.understanding 13.one 14.westerners 15.so 16.origin 17.with 18.down 19.to live 20.truth
