【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 n in easy English C. your dictionary D. finding new words in a dictionary B Throughout history, people have been interested in knowing how language first began, but no one knows exactly where or how this happened. However, we do know a lot about languages, the languages of today and also the languages of earlier times. There are probably about three thousand languages in the world today. Chinese is the language with the most speakers. English, Russian and Spanish are also spoken by many millions of people. On the other hand, some languages in the world have less than one hundred speakers. There are several important families of languages in the world. For example, most of the languages of Europe are in one large family called IndoEuropean. The original( 最初的 ) language of this family was spoken about 4,500 years ago. Many of the present day languages of Europe and India are modern forms of the language of 4,500 years ago. Languages are always changing. The English of today is very different from the English of 500 years ago. In time some even die out pletely. About 1,000 years ago English was a little –known relative of German spoken on one of the borders （邊界） of Europe. If a language has a lot of speakers or if it is very old, there may be differences in the way it is spoken in different areas. That is, the language may have several dialects. Chinese is a good example of dialect differences. Chinese has been spoken for thousands of years by many millions of speakers. The differences between the dialects of Chinese are so great that speakers of Chinese from some parts of China cannot understand speakers from other parts. 56. The first paragraph mainly tells us that_______. A. most people in the world speak Chinese B. there are thousands of languages in the world today C. man has much knowledge about languages D. some people know several languages 57. Many European and Indian languages ______. A. will soon die out pletely B. were once a relative of English C. are the same as before D. e from the same family 58. _____ seems to have changed a lot A. Chinese B. English C. Spanish D. German 59. The word dialect in the last paragraph means ____. A. a special language e spoken by Chinese B. the sign used by the Chinese people in a special area C. the difference between the old and today’s Chinese D. the form of a language used in one part of the country C It is sometimes said that strange flying objects have been seen high up in the sky. People call these strange objects Unidentified Flying Objects(UFOs). These UFOs caused a lot of interest. Some of the reports about them are difficult to believe. Some have been explained in scientific ways. Others have never been explained. Here is an account of UFOs from a report. Dennis Burdens, who wrote an article, tells us that he once saw a UFO himself. He was having dinner one night with a friend near Tripoli, Libya, and after dinner the two men walked across a yard to his room to look at some papers. Burdens noticed that the moon looked strange that night. “It wasn’t the moon,” was the reply. They watched the light and saw that it was moving. It seemed to be an object rather like a big plate. In some ways it looked like smoke with a light on it, but it wasn’t smoke because it didn’t change its shape. It was moving in a regular way. That is to say, it didn’t go suddenly faster or more slowly, and it didn’t go higher or lower. So the two men decided that there must be men in it. After that, Burdens said that he felt eyes looking at him. He was being watched in the darkness. When it was nearer, they noticed that the bottom parts were brighter than the top. The bottom was yellow and the top red. Then the object suddenly turned away and left Libya, moving very fast. On a later day Burdens talked to other people about it, and he found some who had seen it. They all described it in the same way. Could they all be mistaken? 60. UFOs are_________. A. flying high up in the sky B. strange flying objects C. difficult to believe D. very interested 61. A UFO was seen one night________. A. when they were walking across a yard to Burdens’ room B. while they were looking