[名校联盟]浙江省义乌市第三中学高一英语必修一校本作业：阅读1填空稿.docVIP

At the end of the 16th century, about five to seven million people speak English. ________________________ (几乎所有这些人)lived in England. In the next century, ____________________________________________(英国人开始向世界各地迁移) so English ___________________________ (开始被说)in many other countries. Today, more people speak English as their first, second or foreign language_________________(相比以住任何时候). China may have the largest n________ of English speakers. Native English speakers can understand each other even if they don’t speak the same kind of English. _________, they may not be able to understand everything. For example, a British person may say to her friends, “Would you please come up to my flat for a visit?” One of her American friends may then ask her, “Come up where?” Her Canadian friend might explain, “She _________ we should come up to her apartment.”[来源:学*科*网] _______________________________________________________________________________________________ （那么英语在一段落时间在里为什么会起变化呢？当不同文化沟通的时，所有语言都会发生变化）. The English spoken between about 450 and 1150 _________ __________________（不同）the English __________ (speak) today. Actually, _________________________( 当时的英语更多的是以德语为为基础) than ___________ (现今的，现代的) English. Then from about 1150 to 1500, English changed even more. It became less like German, and more like French because _________________________________ ____________________________ （定语从句：那时的英国统治者）spoke French. ___________________________________________(它变得接近你们今天正在学的这种语言). In the 1600’s, Shakespeare ______________ (使用) a wider vocabulary than ever before, one big change in English usage happened ________ (连接词) Noah Webster wrote the American Dictionary of the English Language, ________ (give) American English its own identity. Later, when some British people went to Australia, English began to be spoken there. Now Australian English has its own _______. English is also spoken as a foreign or second language in South Asia. India has a very large number of English speakers. _