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_______________your family! 5. 他沒來看她演出 , 因此她感到非常失望 。 He got up early______________________________________________. 9. 他雖窮 , 但是誠實 。s administrative(管理方面的 )costs are spent on this the near future it is probably that several more countries, most of them having their own languages, will join the EU, thus making the situation even worse. The problem is not just cost: there are practical difficulties as 12 languages,there are 132 possible “translation situations” that might be is often difficult to find people in the right place at the right time who can translate from (for example) Danish into Greek,or Dutch into Portuguese, at a high professional standard. In practice the problem has been made less severe by the use of English in many contacts between EU officials, since almost all of them speak some , any move to reduce the number of official languages(perhaps to four or five)would be a blow to the price of the smaller monly suggested solution is to make English the official language for all EU , this is strongly resisted by powerful member countries like France and Germany. 1. What39。t speak English B. reduced the number of official languages C. lessened the effect of the problem D. been opposed by powerful member countries 答案: C 推理判斯題 。 4. The writer suggests that if the number of official languages was reduced________. A. the EU would not know which official languages to choose B. countries whose languages were not used officially would be unhappy C. only languages which are easy to translate would be used officially D. the smaller member countries would be pleased 答案: B 推理判斷題 . 由文章最后一段第二句可知本題選 B。 6. Which of the following statements is NOT true? A. Some 260 million people in the world have an adequate working knowledge of English. B. There are some 260 million native speakers of English in the world. C. It is almost impossible to estimate the number of people with an adequate working knowledge of English. D. People learn English for a variety of reasons. 答案: A 細節(jié)理解題 。 根據(jù)文章最后一段的描述 , 英語在世界不同領(lǐng)域 、 不同的地區(qū)的使用 , 可推知此題的答案為 D。 選項中有兩項為多余選項 。 詞數(shù) : 100~ 120 左