【正文】 up to you why has English changed over time? Actually all languages change and develop when cultures meet and municate with each fist the English spoken in England between about AD 450 and 1150 was very different from the English spoken was base more on German than the English we speak at gradually between about AD 500 and 1150, English became less like German because those who ruled England spoke first Danish and later new settlers enriched the English language and especially its by the 1600’s Shakespeare was able to make use of a wider vocabulary than ever 1620 some British settlers moved to in the 18th century some British people were taken to Australia began to be spoken in both by the 19th century the language was that time two big changes in English spelling happened: first Samuel Johnson wrote his dictionary and later Noah Webster wrote The American Dictionary of the English latter gave a separate identity to American English now is also spoken as a foreign or second language in South example, India has a very large number of fluent English speakers because Britain ruled India from 1765 to that time English became the language for government and is also spoken in Singapore and Malaysia and countries in Africa such as South the number of people learning English in China is increasing fact, China may have the largest number of English Chinese English develop its own identity? Only time will 世界上的英語 Reading 通向現(xiàn)代英語之路 16世紀末期大約有5百萬到7百萬人說英語，幾乎所有這些人都生活在英國。首先，在公元450年到1150年間，人們所說的英語跟今天所說的英語就很不一樣。最后，到20世紀，英語才真正定形。目前在中國學習英語的人數(shù)正在迅速增長。在美國有些地區(qū)，即使是相鄰城鎮(zhèn)的兩個人所說的語言都可能稍有不同。Unit3Journey Down the Mekong My name is Wang since middle school, my sister Wang Wei and I have dreamed about taking a great bike years ago she bought an expensive mountain bike and then she persuaded me to buy year, she visited our cousins, Dao Wei and Yu Hang at their college if are Dai and grew up in western Yunnan Province near the Lancang River, the Chinese part of the river that is called the Mekong River in other Wei soon got time interested in cycling graduating from college, we finally got the chance to take a bike asked my sister, “Where are we going?” It was my sister who first had the idea to cycle along the entire Mekong River from where it begins to where it she is planning our schedule for the am fond of my sister but she has one serious can be really she didn’t know the best way of getting to places, she insisted that she organize the trip I know that the proper way is always her kept asking her, “When are we leaving and when are we ing back?”I asked her whether she had looked at a map course she hadn’t。我問我姐姐：“我們要去哪兒?”首先想到要沿湄公河從源頭到終點騎車旅游的是我的姐姐。于是，我告訴她，湄公河的源頭在青海省。我們從圖上可以看到，湄公河發(fā)源于西藏一座山上的冰川。Using Language 夜晚的西藏山景 第二部分山中一宿 雖然是秋天，但是西藏已經(jīng)開始下雪。在某個時刻，我們發(fā)現(xiàn)自己置身高處，彷佛騎車穿越云層。當我躺在星空下，我想著我們已經(jīng)走多遠。半夜里，天空變得清朗，星星更亮。像往常一樣，王薇在我的前面，她很可靠，我知道我用不著給她鼓勁兒。而當它進入東南亞以后，流速減緩，河水蜿蜒緩慢地穿過低谷，流向生長稻谷的平原。在我們旅行前的幾個月，王薇和我去圖書館。我不停地問她，“我們什么時候出發(fā)?什么時候回來?”我還問她是否看過地圖。很快，王薇使表兄弟也對騎車旅游產(chǎn)生興趣。美國是一個使用多種方言的大國。當人們用不同于“標準語言”的詞語時，那就叫做方言。在那期間，英語成官方語言和教育用語。在1620年，一些英國人搬遷到美洲定居。我很樂意到你的公寓(apartment)去。我確實想改變這種現(xiàn)狀，但是我卻不知道該怎么辦。我跟我們班里的一位男同學一直相處很好，我們常常一起做家庭作業(yè)，而且很樂意相互幫助。自從我來到這里，這一切都變。她一家人都是猶太人，所以他們不得不躲藏起來，否則他們就會被德國納粹抓去。這條鐵路不滿四年就全線竣工了，比原來的計劃提早兩年。八達嶺隧道長1100多米，有居庸關(guān)隧道的三倍長。白天，他攀山越嶺，勘測線路，晚上，他就在油燈下繪圖，計算?！痹瓉韽哪峡谕边^居庸關(guān)到八達嶺，一路都是高山深澗，