1、Unit 2 We all own English. Module 7 English for you and me 1.即使 2.工作语言 3.外语 4.世界贸易语言 5.四分之一 6.和一样普遍 7.传播到 8.到中期 一一、写出下列短语的英文翻译写出下列短语的英文翻译 课后巩固课后巩固 even if/though working language foreign language the language of world trade a quarter of as common as spread. to. by the middle of. 二二、阅读理解阅读理解(B篇篇) As
2、an Englishman， I can speak three languages English， German and French， so do you think the British people are very good language learners？ The fact is that they arent. Some statistics（数据） from the survey done by the European Commission（欧盟委员会） showed that 62% of the British people only speak English.
3、 38% speak at least one foreign language and 18% speak two or more. Compared with the British people， 56% of the people in other European countries speak at least one foreign language and 28% speak two or more. From this you can see that the British people are famous for not speaking foreign languag
4、es and that they are not good language learners in Europe. And the survey also showed that English is the most widely-spoken foreign language. Many European people can have a conversation in English. Thats why my people dont think it is necessary to learn a foreign language. In Britain， students are
5、 not required to learn a foreign language. That means learning a foreign language is only an option at school. In the UK schools it is common for children to start learning a foreign language at 11 and many of them give it up at 14. So why dont students continue learning foreign languages at school？
6、 Because they think it is more difficult to get good marks in languages than in other subjects such as science or history. To solve this situation， the British government is looking for different ways to improve language learning at school. One way is to start learning it at a much younger age. Anot
7、her one is to give school children more choices. Changing the British attitude（态度） to learning foreign languages may be a hard task but the government decides to try! ( )1. Which country does the writer come from？ A. America. B. China. C. Britain. D. Egypt. C C ( )2. Which of the following about the
8、 British people is true？ A. They are good language learners. B. 62% of them speak two or more languages. C. They are famous for speaking foreign languages. D. More than half of them only speak English. D D ( )3. According to the passage， students in Britain prefer to learn . A. science or German B.
9、history or German C. science or history D. German or French C C ( )4. In Paragraph 4，“an option ” means “ ”. A. a choice B. a game C. a mistake D. a conversation A A ( )5. What is the best title of the passage？ A. Speaking English B. Foreign Language Learning in the UK C. Schools in the UK D. Young
10、English Learners B B 三三、配对阅读配对阅读 D D A A F F C C B B 四四、短文填空短文填空 In America ， most high school students take English， science， math and history. In English 1 ， the students study grammar and read famous literature（文学名著）. 2 science class， they study biology， chemistry and physics. History is 3 intere
11、sting to some students than other subjects 4 they learn about important events and places in the United States. Students take other courses， 5 . These are electives（选修课）. 6 study music because they feel it is more enjoyable. Some 7 computer science because they think 8 is more practical. In each class， teachers give students exams. Some exams are more difficult than 9 ， but a good student can always do 10 . 1. 2. 3. . 4. .5. 6. 7. . 8. 9. 10. . class In moremore because too Some study it others well
