【正文】 A about America H. Tips for Shopping 1. Today people write to, even talk to, others on the puter. Nancy wants to learn more about it. 2. Mary is a good mother. She believes eating right food is important. She likes to help her children grow better with right food. 3. Kevin often sits at the desk, studying all night, but he still gets poor grades. He hopes to do better on the tests. 4. Bob39。t understand every word when you listen to the English teacher. A. doesn39。 boring ( ) 8. If you can39。s boring to study grammar but I feel _______(different) 8. I was very __________ (impress)by his style of English teaching at the first class. 9. To begin with, the teacher spoke very ___________ (quick), and I couldn39。t know what to do with them. (B) The United States is mainly an Englishspeaking country. A great number of population speaks English as their native language. Business, education and most public aspects of life are conducted in English. Across the country, people pronounce English sounds in several different ways and some regional differences in words spelling exist, but for the most parts, Americans speak one mon language. This language is sometimes called American English. However, not everyone in the US is a native speaker of English. Most of the persons ing into the country are speakers of other languages. There are hundreds of munities around the US where the US where English is not the most monly used language. Chinese, Italian, German, Greek, Vietnamese and French are all spoken in a great number of munities in the United States. Spanish is the second most monly spoken language after English in the US. It is widely spoken in New York and across the southern part of the country. For speakers of other languages, learning English is important, but traditionally, teaching people to speak English as a second language was given little attention. NonEnglish speake