2022职称英语卫生C级：概括大意模拟练习(2)概括大意与完成句子题English and English Community1 There is no doubt that English is a useful language. The people who speak English today make up the largest speech community in the world with the exception of speakers of Chinese.2 A speech community is similar to other kinds of communities. The people who make up the community share a common language. Often they live side by side, as they do in a neighborhood （邻居）, a village, or a city. More often they form a whole country. National boundaries, however, are not always the same as the boundaries of a speech community. A speech community is any group of people who speak the same language no matter where they happen to live.3 We may say that anyone who speaks English belongs to the English speech community. For convenience （便利）, we may divide the speakers into two groups: one in which the speakers use English as their native language, the other in which the speakers learn English as a second language for the purpose of education, commerce, and so on.4 Learning a second language extends one”s vision and expands the mind, The history and literature of a second language record the real and fictional （虚构） lives of people and their culture; a knowledge of them adds to our ability to understand and to feel as they feel. Learning English as a second language provides another means of communication through which the window of the entire English speech community becomes a part of our heritage.1 Paragraph 1 .2 Paragraph 2 .3 Paragraph 3 .4 Paragraph 4 .A Threat Posed by EnglishB Definition of a Speech CommunityC Benefits of Leaming a Second LanguageD Advantages of Learning ChineseE Two Groups of the English Speech CommunityF A Widely Used Language5 Overall there are more speakers of Chinese than of .6 The boundaries of a speech community may be different from .7 People who live in different places may belong to .8 Many people learn English as .A a second languageB the same languageC the same speech communityD any other languageE national boundariesF a part of one”s heritage【参考答案】1. F 2. B 3. E 4. C 5. D 6. E 7. C 8. A