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
a large body of
acquitted
anti-bumping device
applied maths
armed intrusions
auricular points
auxograph
barriers to trade
bed-fast
bespurtle
Caparaó, Sa.do
captured air bubble craft
caucused
Clinton, George
clopimozide
colorimetric standard solution
comparison curves
contract of novation
cost freight and commission
creeping exercise
crest velocity
dailyness
deltaproteobacteria
direct measuring of efficiency
dishpan
distributed hash table
drabbing
electric degress
electrical motor
enqueyntance
essence of beef
fabrianoes
field-slave
fire accident
footwomen
genus Albizia
Gongronema
hardware description language
herbygage
heterogalactosidase
heteropolar bond
Ibifur
iron oil syringe
irregular bedding structure
Kanan R.
Karelianism
keenedged
launch pads
Loss for Detention of Collided Vessel
lot-cloth split
m.ea
main sprue
mathematical tractability
mixed chart type
nonhighway
open a breach in
perpendicularness
phost line
pole embrace
Pozhnya
preeue
preservable term
process context
put on a semblance of
putrifying
quasi-elastic light scattering
raise boring
read-out station
refined plaster
reguerdoning
relaxing period
Saxifraga elatinoides
sculptured
semi-submerged catamaram
sent up
set-up parameter
sharad
steam trap (open float type)
stratum mucosum
subhierarchies
sulfhydryl
Surkhan
taken his life in his hands
tea-thing
teach one's granny how to suck eggs
terminal interface module
thermovac evaporator
thrombotic gangrene
Tikhvinka
time check
tin ore needle
two-piece calotte
Tårup
underhonest
unrebel
urotrygon mundus
vegetarianism
warmth sensation
Wartenberg's phenomenon
win sympathy of
wing man
you are my life