时间:2018-12-04 作者:英语课 分类:高中英语人教版第一册课本听力


英语课

  EMGLISH AROUND THE WORLD


  English is a language spoken all around the world.There are more than 42 countries where the majority of the people speak English.Most native speakers of English are found in the United 1 Kingdom,the United States of America ,Canada,Australia,South Africa,Ireland and New Zealand.In total,for more than 375 million people English is their mother tongue.Aequal number of people learn Engliah as a second language.These people will perhaps speak the language of their owm country at home with their family,but the language of the government,schools,newspapers and TV is English.This situation is found in countries such as India,Pakistan,Nigeria and the Philippines.

However,the number of people who learn English as a foreign language is more than 750 million.Everywhere in the world children go to school to learn English.Most people learn English for five or six years at high school.In China students learn English at shool as a foreign language,except for those in Hong Kong,where many people speak English as a first or a second language.

In only fifty years,English has developed into the language most widely spoken and used in the world.English is the working language of most international organisations,international trade and tourism.Businessmen and tourists lften come to China without being able to speak Chinese.Chinese businessmen,taxi drivers and sudents talk with them using English.English is also the language of global 2 culture ,such as popular music and the Internet,You can listen to English songson the radio or use English to communicate with people around the world through the Internet.With so many people communicating in English every day,it will become more and more important to have a good knowledge of English.



1 united
adj.和谐的;团结的;联合的,统一的
  • The whole nation is closely united.全国人民紧密团结。
  • The two men were united by community of interests.共同的利益使两个人结合在一起。
2 global
adj.全球的;球形的;世界的
  • A global environmental meeting is going to be held here.一个全球环境会议将在这里举行。
  • The report takes a global view of the company's problems.这份报告对公司的问题作了综合性的论述。
学英语单词
ammoniometer
bacterioclasis
batholithic granite
beat-up
Bermbeck
blotter test
brutify
buyer's option to double
Byam Shaw
calydonians
cancrite
carrier-suppressed transmission
cfat
cocoanut active charcoal
constant-voltage charge
consumo
continuous co-precipitation
correlated variation
cross arms above head
decamp with
Delta Flipper anchor
digital terrain model (dtm)
double-current furnace
drepaniform
Engelhardtia
erythrophlogosis
flat shoal
freight at risk
fundamental frequency distortion
fuyl
Geon process
glycerol-1
gpq
guesswarp
gust velocity
haberdines
hachi
happened
hemmed in
hessenberg
highlyselective vagotomy
huf
Irishman's dinner
law-enforcer
marine facies theory
maupassants
Mbéwé Mangom
mccashin
megamaser
metal clad type switchboard
metaphylaxis
milk test
minimum effective height
minimum flow control
MSGID
natural flavoring
neutron-proton ratio
noncariogenic
normal price of labo(u)r
Norrbo
oligarchise
overburden ratio of mine
overcharg
Panama Canal Zone
paperful
particularies
pericaliceal
pesticine
phosphorus tricyanide
plastic-nylon boom
producing
prolongings
psychroalgia
publius cornelius scipios
pyrola albo-reticulata
quantales
radiotelemetering
rearrangement ion
rectal feeding
ruby sulfur
Russian bars
sandwich courses
satellite switched multiple access
security seal
self object
Sijbekarspel
source room
split champagne
synandry
synchronous spark
tabanid
takachihoa truciformis
taxed on corporation's undistributed earnings
theorizing
thiazolone
topdressing at different stages
vine-clads
Vostok Island
Welwitschiaceae
World Trade Centres Association
Xilinhot