时间:2018-12-13 作者:英语课 分类:高中英语新课标人教广东高一


英语课

THE ROAD TO MODERN ENGLISH


At the end of the 16th century,about five to seven million people spoke 1 English.Nearly all of them lived in English.Later in the next century ,people form English made voyages to conquer 2 other parts of the world and because of that ,English began to be spoken in many other countries.Today,more people speak English as their first ,second or a foreign language than ever before.


Native English speakers can understand each other even if they don't speak the same kind of English.Look at this example:


British Betty:would you like to see my flat?


American Amy:Yes.I'd like to come up to your apartment.


So why has English changed over time?Actually all languages change and


develop when cultures meet and communicate with each other.At fist the English spoken in England between about AD450 and 1150 was very different from the English spoken today. It was based more on Genman than the English we spead at present .Then gradually between about AD 800and 1150,Inglish became less lide German because those who ruled England spode first Danish and later French.These new settlers enriched 3 the English language and especilly its vocabrlary. So by the 1600's Shadespeare was able to make use of a wider vocabulary than ever befoue. In 1620 some British settlers moved to America. Later in the 18th century some British people were taken to Australia too. English began to be spoken in both countries.


Finally by the 19th century the language was settled. At that time two big changes in English spelling happened:first Samuel Johnson wrote his distionary and later Noah Webster wrote The Anerican Dictionary of the English Langrage. The latter gave a separate identity 4 to American English speelling.


English mow 5 is slso spoken as a foreign or second language in South Asia. For exanple,India has a very large number of fluent english speakers because Britain ruled India from 1765to 1947.During that time English became the language for government and education.English is also spoken in Singapore and Malaysia and countuies in Africa such as South Africa.Todaythe numberof people learning 6 English in China is increasing rapidly.In fact, China may have the largest number of English learners.Will Chinese English develop its own identity? Only time will tell.



1 spoke
n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说
  • They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
  • The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
2 conquer
vt.克服,征服,战胜,占领;vi.得胜
  • There is always one thing to conquer another.一物降一 物。
  • Will can conquer habit.意志能战胜习惯。
3 enriched
使富有( enrich的过去式和过去分词 ); 使富裕; 充实; 使丰富
  • The study of science has enriched all our lives. 科学研究丰富了我们的整个生活。
  • breakfast cereals enriched with vitamins 增加了维生素的早餐谷物食品
4 identity
n.身份,本体,特征;同一(性),一致
  • He never revealed his identity.他从未暴露过自己的身份。
  • He showed his identity card and went in.他把工作证亮了一下就进去了。
5 mow
v.割(草、麦等),扫射,皱眉;n.草堆,谷物堆
  • He hired a man to mow the lawn.他雇人割草。
  • We shall have to mow down the tall grass in the big field.我们得把大田里的高草割掉。
6 learning
n.学问,学识,学习;动词learn的现在分词
  • When you are learning to ride a bicycle,you often fall off.初学骑自行车时,常会从车上掉下来。
  • Learning languages isn't just a matter of remembering words.学习语言不仅仅是记些单词的事。
学英语单词
12-Lipoxygenase
Adams method
alphettes
ameland i.
annular saw
anuclear
avena fatus
averoff
ballizing
bead-and-batten work
Bila Tserkva
bornyl formate
buy and write
CALCICHORDATA
Calyx seu Fructus Physalis
carbon sink
Caspian tigers
Cctv, closed-circuit television.
centrifuge rotating blade
chapping sore
chloroacetates
class B telephone
commendams
constant ratio frequency convertor
constant voltage/constant current power supply
coordinatior
cyberbreaches
cystideans
Day Seamount
deepetching
devil's dung
digital videotape recorder
discrete fourier series
doodle-e-squat
downsweep
electrostatic-precipitator
emergent year
encode control
end entity
evaporation ratio
feros
ffag synchrotron
fore-announce
genus Francisella
gross money supply
hairedness
heavy chain class
hereditary neutropenia
Herschel, Sir William
in the depth of night
Isocarbamid
laser microanalysis
legal ouster
legalizers
local-elections
loncars
longitudinal clinometer
lysitol
magnon side band
male force
mislevy
money shop
Mīr Hasan
optical projection reading device
parameter learning
pastey
peccaries
perming
plant-cane
pleomorphous bacteria
posthistory
Pseudosasa yuelushanensis
RDO
reincubation
root diameter of thread
rotational diffusion
saarlands
saccharide
see someone further
ship radio silence
shore end of submarine cable
special equipment for locomotive operation
split(-film) fibre
stored database
Strangeways
stud driver
superhelixes
Syntetrex
tank monitoring system
taunter
Teocelo
Tina, Mt.
torchet
transglottic
Trichobilharzia jianensis
tropical gal
two generations
ustilago eleocharidis
USW (ultra-short wave)
vehicle clearance circle
washing agent
zealotisms