Module4WhichEnglish Britain BigBen StatueofLiberty theUSA Singapore Merlion 鱼尾狮 鱼尾狮 Jamaica Guess whichtopicsarementionedinthepassage A theuseoflanguageB officiallanguageC pronunciationandgrammarD differentEnglishes E learningEnglishF thedevelopmentofEnglishG theEnglish speakingcountryH thehistoryofEnglish Readthepassagequicklytocheckyourguessandchoosethemainideaofeachpart A AlthoughEnglishisspokenasanofficiallanguagewidely itcansounddifferentfromplacetoplaceB themaindifferencesbetweenAustralianEnglishandothervarietiesofEnglishC thefeaturesofEnglishspokeninJamaicaandSingaporeD YoucanrecogniseapersonbyhisorhervoiceandhisorherchoiceofwordsE It sdifficulttoreachastandardformtospeakEnglishcorrectlybutcommunicationreallymatters whichEnglishPara1Para2Para3 forexampleAustraliaJamaicaandSingapore D A E B C Readpara1 3andchoose 1 Accordingtothewriter youcanknowwhoitiswhensomeonephonesyoubecause A thisperson svoiceisdifferentfromothers B thispersonusesdifferentwordsfromothers C eitherAorBD bothAandB D 2 WecanlearnfromParagraph2allthefollowingsexcept A EnglishspokenbypeopleinthedifferentareassoundsdifferentB Englishpronunciation grammarandvocabularycanchangequicklyfromplacetoplaceC youcantellwhichpartoftheworldapersoncomesfrombytheiraccentD BritishEnglishandAmericanEnglisharesimilar D 3 TherearedifferentEnglishesintheworld ButitisimpossibletotellwhichEnglishiscorrectbecause A Mostpeopledon tagreethatthereisarightorwrongwaytospeakEnglishB thedevelopmentofEnglishhasproducedmanydifferentEnglishesC EnglishiswidelyspokenanditisimpossibletoprovideamodeltofollowD peopleonlypayattentiontohowtheycancommunicate c ReadpartIIandanswerthequestions 1 WhydoestheAustralianaccenttodayhavetracesofbothIrishandcockneyspeechpatterns TheycamefromalloverBritain butespeciallyfromNorthernIrelandandtheLondonarea 2 WhatisthemaindifferencesbetweenAustralianEnglishandothervarieties Themaindifferenceslieintheindividualsoundsandintonationpatterns 3 WhichofthefollowingdidNOTcontributetoAustralianEnglish A TheIrishaccent B Cockney C TheAboriginalEnglish D AmericanEnglish 4 WhichisanexampleshowingtheAustralianwayofwordchoice A G day D yaspeakStrine B EmmaChissit C ToEmmaChissit withbestwishes D Howmuchisit ReadpartIIIandanswer1 WhichofthefollowingisNottrueabouttheEnglishspokeninSingapore A EnglishisasecondlanguagespokenbyabouthalfthepopulationinSingaporeB ThemostcommonvarietyofEnglishspokenisknownasSinglishinSingaporeC SentencesinSinglishoftenendwiththeWordlahinSinglishD EnglishhassomeofthegrammaticalfeaturesofAfricanlanguages D 2 Inthelastpartofthetext thewritermainlywantstotellusthat A theEnglishspokeninacertaincountryisinfluencedbythemothertongueofthespeakersB JamaicaEnglishhasfeaturesofsomeAfricanlanguagesC manypeopleinSingaporearebilingualD JamaicaEnglishandSingaporeEnglisharequitedifferenttoBritishEnglish A 1 Inthissenseeverybody suseoflanguage isdifferent 2 ThereareasmanyvarietiesofEnglish oranyotherlanguageforthatmatter astherearespeakersofit Havingabetterunderstandingoftheimportantsentences 3 AlthoughmostpeoplebelievethereisarightandawrongwaytospeakEnglish thereisnotreallyastandardformthateveryonecanagreeon 4 Perhapscorrectnessdoesn tmatter aslongasspeakerscanunderstandeachother it scommunicationthatcounts 5 TheEnglishspeakersfoundapeoplewhohadbeenlivinginAustraliaformorethan50 000years theAborigines andanextraordinaryvarietyofwildlife uniquetothecontinent 6 ButthemaindifferencesbetweenAustralianEnglishandothervarietiesofEnglishlieintheindividualsoundsandintonationpatterns 7 ButinothercountrieswhereEnglishisspokenasafirstlanguagethisisnotthecase 1 措辞 选词2 从这种意义上来说3 不是这样4 尤其5 走上前6 区分7 认同一种标准形式8 传播到全世界9 更确切地说10 位于 在于11 重要的是交流12 进一步来说 对 同样如此 eupto6 tell apart7 agreeonastandardform8 spreadacrosstheworld9 orrather10 liein11 It scommunicationthatcounts12 forthatmatter Exercises1 Their 措辞 makeapersoninstantlyrecognisable 2 从这种意义上说 everybody suseoflanguageisdifferent 3 Itsoundsverydifferent 从一个地方到一个地方 4 更确切的说 AustralianEnglishisonlyabout200yearsold 5 Inotherlanguages whereEnglishisspokenasafirstlanguage 不是这样 choiceofwords Inthissense fromplacetoplace Orrather thisisnotthecase Whenwe 接到一个电话 wecanrecognizeapersonfrom 音质和他的用词 在这个意义上 wesayeveryone suseoflanguageisdifferent Thereare 多种英语 oranyotherforthatmatter astherearespeakersofit Englishisspokenasan 官方语言 inmorethan60countries anditcan 因地方的不同听起来非常不同 Itiseasyforusto 区分英国英语与美国英语 receiveaphonecall thequalityofhis hervoiceandthechoiceofwords Inthissense asmanyvarietiesofEnglish officiallanguage soundverydifferent fromplacetoplace tellBritishEnglishandAmericanEnglish Thereisnotreallya 标准形式 thateveryonecan 同意 andEnglishis 广泛地使用 soitishardtotellwhichEnglishiscorrectandwhichisincorrect 只要 speakerscanunderstandeachother correctness 无关紧要 AustralianEnglishhastracesofbothIrishandcockneyspeechpatterns becausethefirstspeakerswereprisonerswho 来自不列颠各地 ManyoftheAboriginalwords 成为 的一部分 thelanguage standardform agreeon widelyspoken Aslongas doesn tmatter comefromalloverBritain passedinto Butthemaindifferences 在于 individu