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hermore include overtake romantic roots special status. The total of 750 million English speakers (1)_____________ people who speaker it ad a first or second language but not people who speak it as a foreign language. In some countries, English has (2)__________, which usually means that business is done in English. (3) _____, the use of English has (4) ___________ even more because 80% of Inter websites are in English. Unlike French, English doesn’t have its (5) ___________ in Latin, although there are a lot of English words which e from Latin. English is not as (6) ____________ a language as French, but it has (7) _________________ itself as the world’s main language of international munication however , the number of English speakers probably won’t (8) ___________the number of Speakers of putonghua. The key: 1. include 2. special status 3. Furthermore 4. expanded 5. roots 6. romantic 7. established 8. overtake Step 5 Difficult Sentences. 1. Chinese Mandarin, or putonghua, to give its real name, is spoken by the vast majority of the population of China. 絕大多 數(shù)的中國人都講官方標(biāo)準(zhǔn)語言, 或者確切地說, 講普通話。 3. Apart from the UK and the USA , there are native people speakers in a great number of countries of the world, including Australia, South Africa, Canada, New Zealand and many islands in the Caribbean Sea. 除了英國和美國以外, 全世界還有很多國家把英語作為母語, 包括澳大利亞。 apart from 除了……之外 There was nobody on the ship apart from the captain. 除了船長,整搜船再也沒有任何人。 5. Furthermore, because Arabic is the language of the Koran, millions of Muslims in other countries speak it as well. 而且, 由于《古蘭經(jīng)》是用阿拉伯語寫的,其他國家數(shù)以百萬計的穆斯林也講阿拉伯語 。 7. Indonesian is actually one of many dialects of Malay, but they’re all more or less based on the same root language. 印度尼西亞語實際上是馬來語的眾多發(fā)言方言之一,但這些 方言幾乎都起源于同一種語言。 8) What does the following sentence mean? Reading makes a full man。 Step 6 Answer the questions about some words with 17th century meaning. 1. Ornament means decoration. How can you use studies for decoration? 2. A plot is a plan. What might learned men plot? 3. Sloth is a personal characteristic. Is it likely to be a positive or negative characteristic ? 4. A humor is a state of mind which is motivated by personal feeling , and not reason. Does it have a positive or a negative meaning here? 5. Crafty means skillful. Does it have a positive or a negative meaning here? 6. Read by deputy means that a book is read and interpreted by someone else. When might this be useful? The key: 1) To “ decorate” your life with pleasant ideas. 2) Their studies , their future actions. 3) Negative( laziness) 4) Negative 5) Negative 6) If you don’t have time to read it yourself. Step 7 The translation of the whole text 讀書足以怡情,足以傅彩,足以長才。練達之士雖能分別處理細事或一一判別枝節(jié),然縱觀統(tǒng)籌,全局策劃,則舍好 學(xué)深思者莫屬。讀書補天然之不足,經(jīng)驗又補讀書之不足,蓋天生才干猶如自然花草,讀書然后知如何修剪移接,而書中所示,如不以經(jīng)驗范之,則又大而無當(dāng)。讀書時不可存心詰難讀者,不可盡信書上所言,亦不可只為尋章摘句,而應(yīng)推敲細思。換言之,有只需讀其部分者,有只須大體涉獵者,少數(shù)則須全讀,讀時須全神貫注,孜孜不倦。讀書使人充實,討論使人機智,筆記使人準(zhǔn)確。培根