【正文】 guage in South Asia. For an example, India has very large number of fluent English speakers because of Britain ruled India from 1765 to 1947. During that time English bee the language for government and education. English is also spoken in Singapore and Malaysia and countries in Africa such like South Africa. Today the number of people in China learn English is increasing rapid. In fact, China may have the largest number of English learner. Will Chinese English develop their own identity? Only time will tell. 六、句子翻譯（共 10小題；每 空 1 分， 滿分 10 分 ） 1． 信不信由你，我們學校沒有這樣一個人。 than ever before 4. based more on。 It was __________ German than the English we speak __________. 5． 沿著這條路走三個街區(qū)，然后右轉(zhuǎn)，醫(yī)院就在你的左邊。s mon to make words shorter. In texting, a single letter or number can represent a word, like r for are, u for you, and 2for to. Several letters can also represent a phrase, like lol for laughing out loud. Another characteristic of texting is the leaving out of letters in a word, like spelling please as pls. Some parents and teachers worry that texting will make children bad spellers and bad writers. The student who wrote the essay at the top of this page said writing that way was more fortable for her. (The essay said, My summer holidays were a plete waste of time. Before, we used to go to New York to see my brother, his girlfriend, and their three kids face to face.) Not everyone agrees that texting is a bad thing. Some experts say languages always develop, and this is just another way in which English is changing. Other people believe texting will disappear soon. New technology for voice messages may soon make text messages a thing of the past. 46. This kind of texting is particularly popular in ______. A. mobile phone panies B. parents C. customers D. teenagers 47. Which characteristic of texting is NOT described in the passage? A. Using letters to represents words. B. Using phrases to represent essay. C. Using letters to represent phrases. D. Using numbers to represent words. 48. Which of the following was most probably the title of students39。 the C. the。 / D. a。 essay? A. My Smmr Hols B. CU in LA C. My GF D. My G8 Tchr 49. Why aren39。 Go down this road for __________, then turn right, you’ll find the hospital __________ 答案： 一、單選： 1. DADBA 6. BABDD 11. BCABC 16. CDCDA 二、完形： 21. BCACB 26. BDCAB 31. DCABA 36 BCDBC 三、閱讀： 41. BABDD 46. DBADC 四、單拼： 51. actually 52. concerned 53. official 54. fluently 55. native 56. eastern 57. outdoors 58. vocabulary 59. grateful 60. disagree 五、改錯：參考課本 六、翻譯： 1. believe it or not。 happened 3. more。 增加：在缺詞處加上一個漏字符號（ ∧ ），并在其下面寫出該加的詞； 刪除：把多余的詞用斜線（ \）劃掉； 修改 ：在錯的詞下劃一橫線，并在該次下面寫上修改后的詞； 注意： 1. 每處錯誤及其修改均僅限一詞； 2. 只允許修改 10 處，多者（從 11 處起）不計分。m tired of his way of talking. A. No way