【正文】 是相鄰城鎮(zhèn)的兩個(gè)人所說的語言都可能稍有不同。當(dāng)人們用不同于“標(biāo)準(zhǔn)語言”的詞語時(shí)，那就叫做方言。許多人認(rèn)為，電視和收音機(jī)里所說的就是標(biāo)準(zhǔn)英語，這是因?yàn)樵谠缙诘碾娕_節(jié)目里，人們期望新聞播音員所說的英語是最好的英語。中國英語會發(fā)展出自己的特色嗎？這只能由時(shí)間來回答了。目前在中國學(xué)習(xí)英語的人數(shù)正在迅速增長。在那期間，英語成了官方語言和教育用語?，F(xiàn)在，英語在南亞也被當(dāng)作外語或第二語言來說。約翰遜編寫了詞典，后來，諾厄最后，到20世紀(jì)，英語才真正定形。在1620年，一些英國人搬遷到美洲定居。這些新的定居者大大豐富了英語語言，特別是在詞匯方面。然后，漸漸地，大約在公元800年到1150年期間，英語不那么像德語了。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。我很樂意到你的公寓（apartment）去。以英語作為母語的人，即使他們所講的語言不盡相同，也可以互相交流。于是，許多別的國家開始說英語了。Unit2 the Road to Modern English At the end of the 16th century, about five to seven million people spoke English. Nearly all of them lived in England. Later in the next century, people from England made voyages to conquer other parts of the world, and because of that, English began to be spoken in many other countries. Today, more people speak English as their first, second or a foreign language than ever before. Native English speakers can understand each other even if they don’t speak the same kind of English. Look at this example: British Betty: Would you like to see my flat? American Amy: Yes. I’d like to e up to you apartment. So why has English changed over time? Actually all languages change and develop when cultures meet and municate with each other. At fist the English spoken in England between about AD 450 and 1150 was very different from the English spoken today. It was base more on German than the English we speak at present. Then gradually between about AD 500 and 1150, English became less like German because those who ruled England spoke first Danish and later French. These new settlers enriched the English language and especially its vocabulary. So by the 1600’s Shakespeare was able to make use of a wider vocabulary than ever before. In 1620 some British settlers moved to America. Later in the 18th century some British people were taken to Australia to. English began to be spoken in both countries. Finally by the 19th century the language was settled. At 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 language. The latter gave a separate identity to American English spelling. English now is also spoken as a foreign or second language in South Asia. For example, India has a very large number of fluent English speakers because Britain ruled India from 1765 to 1947. During that time English became the language for government and education. English is also spoken in Singapore and Malaysia and countries in Africa such as South Africa. Today the number of people learning English in China is increasing rapidly. In fact, China may have the largest number of English learners. Will Chinese English develop its own identity? Only time will tell.第二單元 世界上的英語Reading通向現(xiàn)代英語之路16世紀(jì)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。如果您能給我提些建議，我會非常感激的。因此，有時(shí)候我感到十分孤獨(dú)。我有一個(gè)難題，我不太善于同人們交際。我不想中斷這段友誼，但是我又討厭人家背后說閑話。我們成了非常好的朋友。Using LanguageReading, listening and writing親愛的王小姐：我同班上的同學(xué)有件麻煩事。漆黑的夜晚，風(fēng)吹雨打，雷電交加，我全然被這種力量鎮(zhèn)住了。還有一次，就在五個(gè)月以前的一個(gè)晚上，我碰巧在樓上，窗戶是開著的?！确秸f，有天晚上天氣很暖和，我熬到11點(diǎn)半故意不睡覺，為的是獨(dú)自好好看看月亮。我記得非常清楚，以前，湛藍(lán)的天空、鳥兒的歌唱、月光和鮮花，從未令我心迷神往過。安妮自從1942年7月起就躲藏在那兒了，現(xiàn)在，來看看她的心情吧。她說，“我不愿像大多數(shù)人那樣在日記中記流水賬。她和她的家人躲藏了兩年之后才被發(fā)現(xiàn)。安妮在第二次世界大戰(zhàn)期間住在荷蘭的阿姆斯特丹。 it was the first time in a year and a half that I’d seen the night face to face……Sadly …I am only able to look at nature through dirty curtains hanging before very dusty windows. It’s no pleasure looking through these any longer because nature is one thing that really must be experienced.Your