第3部分：概括大意与完成句子 （第23~30题，每题1分，共8分） ．
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English and English Community
1 There is no doubt that English is a useful language．The people who speak English today make up the largest speech community in the world with the exception of speakers of Chinese．
2 A speech community is similar to other kinds of communities．The people who make up the community share a common language．Often they live side by side, as they do in a neighborhood （街坊），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 speak the same language no matter where they happen to live．
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 1earn English as a second language for the purpose of education，commerce，and so on．
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．
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A Threat Posed by English
B Definition of a Speech Community
C Benefits of Learning a Second Language
D Advantages of Learning Chinese
E Two Groups of the English Speech Community
F A Widely Used Language
27 Overall there are more speakers of Chinese than of .
28 The boundaries of a speech community may be different from .
29 People who live in different places may belong to .
30 Many people learn English as .
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
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23 F 24 B 25 E 26 C 27 D 28 E 29 C 30 A
