Languages will continue to diverge. Even if E...

Languages will continue to diverge. Even if English were to become the universal language, it would still take many different forms. Indeed the same could happen to English as has happened to Chinese: a language of intellectuals which doesn’t vary hugely alongside a large number of variations used by local peoples.

We will continue to teach other languages in some form, and not just for reasons of practical use. Learning a language is good for your mental health; it forces you to understand another cultural and intellectual system. So I hope British education will develop a more rational approach to the foreign languages available to students in line with their political importance. Because so many people believe it is no longer important to know another language, I fear that time devoted to language teaching in schools may well continue to decline. But you can argue that learning another language well is more exhausting than, say, learning to play chess well—it involves sensitivity to a set of complicated rules, and also to context.

Technology will certainly make a difference to the use of foreign languages. Computers may, for instance, relieve the hard work that a vast translation represents. But no one who has seen a computer translation will think it can substitute for live knowledge of the different languages. A machine will always be behind the times. Still more important is the fact that no computer will ever get at the associations beyond the words associations that may not be expressed but which carry much of the meaning. In languages like Arabic that context is very important. Languages come with heavy cultural baggage too—in French or German if you miss the cultural references behind a word you’re very likely to be missing the meaning. It will be very hard to teach all that to computer.

All the predictions are that English will be spoken by a declining proportion of the world’s population in the 21st century. I don’t think foreign languages will really become less important, but they might be perceived to be— and that would in the end be — a very bad thing.

1.According to the text,we can infer that Chinese _______.

A.is a language full of cultural background

B.is narrowly used by local peoples

C.will be regarded as important as English

D.will soon become the universal language

2.Which of the following best describes the author’s opinion ?

A.Foreign languages should be taught for political importance.

B.Learning another language is just like learning to play chess well.

C.British education lacks a rational approach to the teaching of foreign languages.

D.Learning a language need to know a country’ cultural and intellectual system.

3.Why can the computer translation make a difference to the use of foreign languages?

A.It can replace for live knowledge of the different languages.

B.It can always keep the pace with the times in the translation.

C.It can reduce the hard work that a vast translation represents.

D.It can express the implied meaning beyond word associations.

4.What is the text mainly about?

A.Learning foreign languages is a challenging job.

B.Learning a language is good for your mental health.

C.Cultural background blocks the understanding of a language.

D.Computers play an important role in learning foreign languages.

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Reading articles like that, if ________, will do harm to you.

A. continued                       B. continues                       C. continuing         D. to continue

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Taking this kind of medicine, if ________, will do harm to health.

A. continue                 B. continued               C. to continue                      D. continuing

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In English, if new words continue to be used for at least five years they generally______ the Oxford English Dictionary．

A．come up with                          B．make up for

C．look up to                             D．end up in

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In English, if new words continue to be used for at least five years they generally ________ the Oxford English Dictionary.

A．come up with      B．end up in     C．look up to      D．make up for

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It looks _______ it were going to rain.

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Taking this medicine，if________，will of course do good to his health.

A．continued　                             B．to continue

C．continues　                             D．continuing

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If you continue to drive that you will       killing yourself.

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— Will you go to attend her party?

— No, ________.

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If it were up to me, I’d write this piece next week or even later. Let the dust settle a bit. But I have my father’s insistent voice in my head: the story is now, so you write it now. No one wants to read last week’s news.

My father Michael was a journalist. He started at age 16 on his local paper, the Luton News, and after nine years there, he went on to a six-decade career that saw him write more than 40 biographies of Hollywood stars and spend a quarter-century presenting a weekly radio show.

From him I learned about deadlines and accuracy, and absorbed his rule about professional clothing, one he had been taught by his first boss. Even when he was working at home, my father would follow that rule: shirt and tie, every day.

There were other less obvious lessons. The first is about being manly. Driven and competitive, he wasn’t present for the birth of any of his three children, but he was the very model of being loving and faithful. My father never took me to the football or taught me to change a tyre. In a pub, he might manage some drinks, but his main focus would usually be the food menu. He was a model of a different kind of maleness.

But perhaps the biggest lesson I learned from him was about resilience. He got deep blows, losing both his wife and firstborn child, my sister Fiona, within two years of each other. And yet, somehow, he got back up again. He taught himself to cook and continued to dress neatly, picking out a bright jacket that ensured he stood out in a room. He would meet editors and write stories with the same hunger he had 65 years earlier. Younger colleagues keep using the same word about him: appealing.

I hope I learned his resilience, the way I learned about being a journalist. People keep telling me that my father was proud of me; and the truth is I was proud of him. Raised in a hard-up corner of wartime England, he went off to see the world—and he never stopped looking forward and upward, staring at the stars.

1.What has made the author write down the text so soon?

A. His father’s words motivated him to do so.

B. He wanted to settle down after the writing.

C. He wanted to write it before he forgot it.

D. It was the story he insisted on writing.

2.What was the author’s impression of his father?

A. He always managed to dress up following the fashion.

B. He sometimes had a hard time meeting the work deadline.

C. He trained the author to be manly and do the basic things.

D. He was competitive at work and remained a loving Dad.

3.What was the best lesson the author learned from his father?

A. The necessity of keeping good shape.

B. Quick recovery from suffering or blow.

C. The ability to get a content career.

D. The pride one takes in his/her parents.

4.What can be a suitable title for the text?

A. Dad Left a Deep Impression on Me for His Work

B. Dad Proved Faithful and Loving for the Family

C. My Dad Showed How to Be a Journalist and a Man

D. I Learned to Recover Quickly after a Suffering

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