(外教社)全新版大学英语综合教程第二册第七单元课后练习答案unit-7-book-2.pdf

(外教社)全新版大学英语综合

教程第二册第七单元课后练习

答案unit-7-book-2

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Unit7LearningaboutEnglish

PartIIReadingTask

Comprehension

ContentQuestion

PairWork

1.Ithasborrowedandisstillborrowing

massivelyfromotherlanguages.Todayithas

anestimatedvocabularyofoveronemillion

words.

2.Theydon’tlikeborrowingforeignwords.

TheytrytobanwordsfromEnglish.

3.OldEnglishorAnglo-SaxonEnglish.

4.TheGermanictribesbroughtittotheBritish

Islesinthe5thcentury.

5.Theyareusuallyshortanddirect.

6.TheyusewordsderivedfromOldEnglish.

7.AnEnglishjudgeinIndianoticedthatseveral

wordsinSanskritcloselyresembledsome

wordsinGreekandLatin.Asystematicstudy

laterrevealedtheIndo-Europeanparent

language.

8.Greek,Latin,Sanskrit,English,etc.

9.Therewerethreelanguagescompetingforuse

inEngland.

10.WordsfromGreekandRomanclassics

cameintotheEnglishlanguage.

11.Thegreatprinciplesoffreedomandrights

ofmanwereborninEngland,thenthe

Americanscarriedthemforward.

12.No.Englishisandhasalwaysbeenthe

tongueofthecommonpeople.Thereshould

notbeanyfencearoundittoprotectits

so-calledpurity.

TextOrganization

WorkingOnYourOwn

1.

PartOne:Massiveborrowingfromother

languagesisamajorfeatureofthe

Englishlanguage.

PartTwo:thehistoryoftheEnglishlanguage

fromtheIndo-Europeanparent