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1. English has a vocabulary of about a million words. How could so many words be formed? List as many methods as possible by giving examples. 英国有约一百万个单词的词汇。怎么会这么多字的形成？列出尽可能多的方法举例。 2. In the process of knowing words, there has been the debate between the Naturalists and the Conventionalists. How do you comment on it? 在了解单词的过程中，出现了自然主义和习惯之间的争论。你对此有何评论？ 3. Old English, Middle English and Modern English are three developmental stages of English language, during each of which English borrowed words from other languages. Please illustrate how you treat borrowed words. A good thing or a bad thing? 古英语，中古英语和现代英语是英语语言发展的三个阶段，在每一个英语借用外来语。请说明你如何对待外来词。好事还是坏事？ 4. “Without grammar very little can be conveyed, without vocabulary nothing can be conveyed.” (by linguist D. A. Wilkins) Tell how you understand the sentence with your own experience of learning English. “没有语法不能很好地表达，而没有词汇则什么也不能表达。”（由语言学家威尔金斯）告诉你如何理解自己学习英语的经历的句子 答案： 1. The language historian divides English history into three times: Ancient English, Middle English, Modern English. The history of English language began over 1500 years ago in the north of Europe. About the fifth century A.D., tribes of people known as the Angels, Saxons, and Jutes traveled west from Germany and Denmark across the north sea. They settled in Britain, and by the late of the seventh century, they were speaking an early form of the English. 英语的历史从1500年前的北欧开始。在公元5世纪左右，成为盎格鲁人、萨克森人和朱特人的部落从德国和丹麦旅行详细过北海。他们迁入英国，并在7世纪末以前，他们所讲的即为早期形式的英语。 In the late eighth century, the Vikings attacked England. Fighting continued for years. During this time almost two hundred many Latin, Danish, and Norse word entered the English language. Latin gave English words like kitchen and cup. From Danish and Norse, English borrowed skin, leg, and the pronouns them, their, and they. Many synonyms from the Norse language became integrated into English, for example, wrath (English), anger (Norse) ; sick (English) , ill (Nose). 在8世纪末，斯堪的纳维亚人攻占英国。战争持续了将近200年。在这个时期，很多拉丁语