英语六级阅读理解练习题(四).doc

英语六级阅读理解练习题(四) 温馨提示：帮考网外语免费练习题，如需完整题库请登录 It is fashionable nowadays to talk about “Englishes”—surely one of the least attractive of recent coinages. But it is an indication that the great community of users of English are now conscious of the fact that they do not all have exactly the same accent， or habit of grammar and idiom， or vocabulary. They have a choice， and they intend to use it. How does Britain stand in this comparison？ What is the role of the British Council， and other British educational interests？ How does a major initiative like the Cobuild project further the image of Britain abroad？ Born with English In Britain on the whole we do not have much of a choice. We can take steps to modify our language a little， and there are some famous recent examples of the perils attending that policy. But by and large we just use the language that somehow emerges in early development and usually seems adequate for our daily communication needs. We should never forget what an asset it is to us all that this language is English. Everyone who has English as a birthright has an inbuilt （固有的） advantage in international communication. Not only are we spared the trouble and expense of mastering the language later on， we also have access to a mastery of it which is of such high quality that few foreigners ever reach the same level. Such an asset beats North Sea Oil hands down. It must be worth billions of pounds a year and it is renewed solely by the operation of normal social processes. Only English There are some disadvantages which must at least be mentioned. We in Britain are in danger of turning this asset into arrogance， insularity and complacency. Since there is no commercial pressure on us to learn any particular foreign language， we tend as a nation to be very bad learners of other languages.。 This cuts us off from the ability to appreciate fully the culture of others， and denies us the ability to make the wonderful outward gesture of using someone else’s own langu