B. 分析:speech community是该段落中的中心词—反复出现,尤其出现在段首句和段末句中,而且段末句的句势:A speech community is any group of people..这样的结构是典型的定义式结构,因此判断B是答案。
A Threat Posed by English
C Benefits of Learning a Second Language
D Advantages of Learning Chinese
E Two Groups of the English Speech Community
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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 learn English as a second language for the purpose of education,commerce,and so on.
E.分析:借助在段落开头部分出现的“divide the speakers into two groups”,直接判断答案E。
A Threat Posed by English
C Benefits of Learning a Second Language
D Advantages of Learning Chinese
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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.
C。分析:段首句是观点句,而且在语意上直接与C呼应,因此直接判断C是答案。
l 完成句子解析
A a second language
B the same language
C the same speech community
D any other language
E national boundaries
F a part of one’s heritage
27 Overall there are more speakers of Chinese than of ___.
D。分析:借助搭配句意可以直接判断答案D。也可借助原文,利用题干中出现的特征词Chinese 作为答案线索,这样找到直接答案相关句:
The people who speak English today make up the largest speech community in the world with the exception of speakers of Chinese.
A a second language
B the same language
C the same speech community
E national boundaries
F a part of one’s heritage
28 The boundaries of a speech community may be different from ___.
E。 分析:借助搭配句意可以直接判断答案E。也可借助原文:利用题干中出现的特征 词汇 boundaries作为答案线索,这样发现答案相关句: