Question

   More than three thousand languages are spoken in the world today. Many ot these languages are spoken 1 small groups of people. On the 2 hand,over two hundred languages are spoken by one million or more people. Chinese is the language spoken by the 3 number of people in the world. But English is most 4 spoken in the world.

    English is spoken by more than four hundred million people 5 their first language. It is 6  by most people in the U. S. A. , Great Britain,Canada,Australia and New Zealand. And it is 7used very widely in many other countries of the world. Look at the back of your watch. You may see the English words “Made 8 China”，or “Japan”，even “Germany”.

   English is the first language in 9 of these. Why are English words 10 on it? That is because in the modern world English is widely used for business among different countries.

() 1. A. as   B. by   C. for   D. with

() 2. A. other   B. others   C. another   D. the second

() 3. A. biggest   B. bigger   C. largest   D. larger

() 4. A. wide   B. wider   C. widest   D. widely

() 5. A. of   B. in   C. by   D. as

() 6. A. spoke   B. spoken   C. speak   D. speaking

() 7. A. either   B. as well   C. also   D. too

() 8. A. at   B. of   C. with   D. in

() 9. A. no one   B. none   C. nothing   D. no

() 10. A. written   B. wrote   C. write   D. writing

Answer 1

1. B 2. A 3. C 4. D 5. D 6. B 7. C 8. D 9. B 10. A

[解析]本文介紹世界多種語言的用途。

1. B這些語言中許多只被(by) —小群人講。

2. A on the other hand另一方面。另一方面，超過 兩百種語言被超過一百萬人講。

3. C the largest number of最大數目。漢語是世界 上使用人數最多的語言。

4. D widely廣泛地，副詞。英語是世界上使用最廣泛的語言。

5. D as作為。超過四億人以英語作為他們的第一語言。

6. B be動詞后接過去分詞，故用spoken。大多數 美國人講它。

7. C also也。它也被世界上其他許多國家廣泛地使用。

8. D made in China“中國制造”之意。

9. B這些國家都不(none) 以英語作為第一語言。

10. A為什么英語單詞寫在(written) 上面。