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There are about 5,000 different languages. Nearly 900 languages are spoken in India.   小题1: .
Chinese is the language spoken by the most number of people in the world. But the most widely spoken language in the world is English. 330，000，000 people speak English as the first language.
小题2:   as a foreign language. Travelers and business people all over the world use English. And two thirds of the world’s scientists read in English. About 200 million users of the Internet communicate in English, too. It is one of the most important language in the world.  小题3:    .
How many words are there in the English language? There are about 490,000. Also, there are about 300,000 words used in science. There are more words in English than in any other language. But most people use no more than 60,000 words.
It’s true that English is changing with the development of the world. Since the 1990s, English learning has been very popular with Chinese people. Many of them have done well in English and have made great progress.
Now,   小题4:  and the study of English is regarded as a very important industry in China as well as in the rest of the world. Children leaving school at the age of 16 know about 15,000 words.

答案

小题1:D
小题2:B
小题3:A
小题4:C

解析

试题分析：这篇短文给我们讲述的是世界上使用最广泛的语言—英语。世界上有3亿3千万人把英语当做第一语言，还有6亿5千万人把英语当做第二语言。旅行者、商人、因特网上都主要使用英语。从上世纪90年代开始，中国人也开始流行学习英语。
小题1:句意：世界上大约有5,000种不同的语言，印度就要将近900种。在所有的这些语言中，英语是使用最广泛的。根据句意可知，这里应该是承接上文，在这很多种语言中，使用最广泛的是英语。故选D。
小题2:句意：有330,000,000人把英语当做第一语言，还有将近两倍，大约6亿5千万人把英语当做外语在使用。这两句话告诉我们，世界上有很多人说英语，不管是当做第一语言还是第二语言。故选B。
小题3:句意：英语是世界上最重要的语言之一，它也变得越来越受欢迎。根据这里的句意可知，世界上有很多国家的人都在说英语，它变得越来越受欢迎。故选A。
小题4:句意：现在，学生们都需要学习英语，除了世界上的其他一些国家，在中国英语的学习也被认为是很重要的一个产业。根据句意可知，这里说的是世界上的一些国家里，学生们都在学习英语。故选C。

举一反三

根据汉语意思完成句子，每空只填一词。
小题1:昨天中午妈妈做饭的时候，我的小妹妹正在玩游戏。
My little sister was playing games _________ my mother was cooking at noon yesterday.
小题2:毫无疑问, 由于计算机的出现, 我们的世界正变得越来越小。
There’s no ________ that our world is becoming smaller and smaller because of the appearance of computers.
小题3:杰克喜欢收到别人的来信，但他从不给别人写信。
Jack likes __________ __________ others , but he never writes to others .
小题4:如果明天不下雨，我们就会去野餐。
If it _______ ________ tomorrow, we will have a picnic.

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child time in good ready begin
pass quickly themselves for if hard

Each year, thousands of Chinese middle school students go to study in foreign countries such as the U S, the UK, Australia and Japan.
"Chinese 小题1: hope very much to go abroad to get a wider view(视野) of the world," said Li Mingshan, a Chinese writer who has lived 小题2: America for many years. In a talk Li told more than 300 parents and their children that life in foreign countries can be 小题3:for young people. "They have to meet a culture shock and language problems.”
However, these are not the most difficult things. To most children, looking after 小题4:when studying alone in a foreign country is a big challenge(挑战).
Zhao Baohua, a 16-year-old student 小题5: to study in a high school in Australia las t October. To his surprise, his teachers there hardly pushed students to study. And usually there wasn"t homework. "With these education systems, we have more free 小题6: and more space for thinking," said Zhao. "But 小题7: you don"t know how to plan your time and money, you will not have an easy time." Some of his friends spent their whole year"s money in the first two months of the term, and they didn"t 小题8: their exams.
"Studying abroad at a young age can help students learn foreign languages 小题9:, but students and parents should know about the challenges," Li said. "If you want to study abroad, try to talk to someone with experience in foreign countries. Make sure that you are 小题10: for it. "

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Many Chinese leaders are fond of ancient Chinese literature. Xi Jinping, who was 小题1:   in June 1953 in Beijing, was a graduate of Tsinghua University and    小题2: the CPC in January 1974. When Xi Jinping was elected (选举) China’s president at the National People’s Congress in March last year, he talked about some of his ideas on    小题3: to run a government. When he spoke, many Chinese people were pleasantly    小题4: to find that Xi Jinping has good knowledge of Laozi and Daois. “Running a large country is like frying a small fish(治大国如烹小鲜),” he said at the meeting. It’s a quote from Tao Te Ching(《道德经》)，a book   小题5:   by Laozi over 1,200 years ago.
In fact, it was not the 小题6:  time Xi had quoted Laozi. Xi often referred to (参照) the beliefs of this great thinker when he worked   小题7:a provincial governor(省长).
Xi Jinping is not the    小题8: leader who is interested in Laozi. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said in an   小题9:with XinHua News Agency in October 2013, “He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is might(胜人者有力，自胜者强). It was true 2,000 years ago, and it is 小题10: true in the 21^st century.”

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The other day, my friends and I talked about the rules we have in school. At our school, we have to wear 小题1: every day. The 小题2: is that all my classmates think the uniforms are 小题3: .We think young people should look smart and we would like to wear our own clothes. Our 小题4: believe that if we did that, we would concentrate more on our clothes than our studies. We disagree. We would小题5: more comfortable and that is good for studying. If we can’t do that, we should be allowed to design our own uniforms. That would be a good way to keep 小题6: teachers and students happy.
It’s also probably a good idea for parents to 小题7: teenagers to study in groups during the evening. I know we get noisy sometimes, but we learn a lot 小题8: each other. We also think that vacations should be小题9:.At present they’re too short. Longer vacations would give us time to do things like volunteering. Last summer I小题10: an opportunity to volunteer at the local hospital, but I couldn’t because I had to go back to school. It would be a good experience for me because I want to be a doctor when I’m older.

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An old woman had a cat. The cat was very old. She could not run quickly, 小题1:_____she could not bite. One day the old cat saw a mouse. She jumped and caught the mouse. But she could not bite it, so the mouse got out of her mouth and ran小题2:_________.
Then the old woman became very 小题3:______because the cat had not killed the mouse. She began to hit the cat. The cat said, "Don’t hit your old 小题4:______. I have worked for you for many years, and I would work for you still, but I am too old. Do not be unkind 小题5:______ the old, but remember what good work the old did when they were young."

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