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2024届广东省普语高中毕业班高三第二次调研考试英语卷

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一、阅读理解

Languagesaredyingoutallthetime.Herearefourlanguagesthatwereoncewidely

spokenbutarenowconsideredas“dead”languages.

OldNorse

OldNorsewasspokenandwrittenbytheVikingsfromaboutthe7thcentury.Itwas

usedincountrieslikeIcelandandpartsofRussia.TheVikingswerefamousfortheirattacks

onneighbouringcountries,andsoOldNorsehadaninfluenceonthelanguagesoftheplaces

theyattacked,includingEnglish.Forexample,Englishwordssuchas“egg,gift,anger,want,

trustandscore”comefromOldNorse.

MiddleEnglish

MiddleEnglishwasspokeninEnglandbetweenthe12thand15thcenturiesandwas

verydifferentfromtheEnglishweusethesedays.Inthepast,Englandwashighlyinfluenced

byOldNorse.Sowasitslanguage.Therearenomanuscripts(手稿)inMiddleEnglishasit

wasmuchmorefashionabletowriteinFrench.MiddleEnglishgavewaytomodernEnglish.

OneexampleofthewideuseofmodernEnglishwasShakespeare’sworks.

Hunnir

Hunniristhemostmysteriousofthelanguagesonourlist.TheHunswereacommunity

thatspreadacrosseasternEuropeinthe4thand5thcenturies.DespitetheHuns’successin

expandingtheirempire,theirlanguagewasneverwrittendown.Thefewwordsthatare

knownaremainlynames-i