高等继续教育 / 大学英语语法
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There is no denying that English is a useful language. The people who speak English today make up the largest speech community in the world with the ( 1 ) of speakers of Chinese. Originally they were small tribes of people ( 2 ) in northern Europe who left their homelands and settled in England. ( 3 ) in their island community, the various tribes used languages which became more and more similar to each other and less and less like the other languages of Europe. ( 4 ), the language had enough uniformity to be used by all speakers in England. The people were united into a speech community through their ( 5 ) language. In time, people moved from the small island to many parts of the world, taking their language with them and thus still remaining members of the English speech community ( 6 ) they settled.
A speech community is ( 7 ) to other kinds of communities. The people who make up the community share a common language. Often they live side by side, ( 8 ) they do in the neighborhood, a village, or a city. More often they form a whole country. Many nations are composed of a ( 9 ) major speech community. National boundaries, ( 10 ), are not always the same as the boundaries of a speech community. Some nations are made up of many speech communities. A speech community, then, is any group of people who speak the same language no matter where they happen to live.
living
similar
exception
whenever
single
however
as
eventually isolated
shared
wherever
different
There is no denying that English is a useful language. The people who speak English today make up the largest speech community in the world with the ( 1 ) of speakers of Chinese. Originally they were small tribes of people ( 2 ) in northern Europe who left their homelands and settled in England. ( 3 ) in their island community, the various tribes used languages which became more and more similar to each other and less and less like the other languages of Europe. ( 4 ), the language had enough uniformity to be used by all speakers in England. The people were united into a speech community through their ( 5 ) language. In time, people moved from the small island to many parts of the world, taking their language with them and thus still remaining members of the English speech community ( 6 ) they settled.
A speech community is ( 7 ) to other kinds of communities. The people who make up the community share a common language. Often they live side by side, ( 8 ) they do in the neighborhood, a village, or a city. More often they form a whole country. Many nations are composed of a ( 9 ) major speech community. National boundaries, ( 10 ), are not always the same as the boundaries of a speech community. Some nations are made up of many speech communities. A speech community, then, is any group of people who speak the same language no matter where they happen to live.
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