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Henry Morris, an English professor, asks his college English classes to coun
Henry Morris, an English professor, asks his college English classes to coun
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Henry Morris, an English professor, asks his college English classes to count "loan words". These are words we use that were taken directly from other languages. He jokes about the term "loan words". "It is not like we’re going to give these words back after we’ve done with them," he says. "Imported words" might be a better term. Simple sentences may contain 15 percent or less of these. Complex. sentences may be 50 percent or more "imports". Scientific papers might use mostly loan words. "We use imports constantly,: Morris says, "generally without any idea we are using them."
Was there ever a time when people spoke just plain English7 No. Scholars estimate that one-third of the world’s languages are of Indo-European origin. These includes English, French, Latin, German, Dutch, Celtic, and Salvic tongues. Back around AD 450, when Julius Caesar was alive, English, as we know, it didn’t exist. English is relatively young. Its roots go back 1,500 years, to Britain. People there spoke Celtic. Then came Anglo-Saxon invaders. These conquerors spoke a language closely related to older forms of Dutch. Morris says Dutch words like "word", "gras" and "man", became the English equivalents "word", "grass" and "man". Anglo-Saxon "Anglish" became "English".
But our story does not end there. English continued to grow and change. When Norman French invaded Britain in 1066, the English vocabulary got an enormous boost. Scholars say that nearly half of all English words are French in their origin. Words like art, orange, taxi, train and surprise are a few examples.
When English colonists came to America in the 1700s, they encountered native Americans and their languages. Words like wigwam, teepee, chipmunk, possum and tomahawk settled into the colonists’ vocabulary.
Centuries later, in the early 1900s, immigrants streamed to America’s shores. Italians taught us to say broccoli, macaroni, opera and studio. Spanish speakers added mosquito, mustang, tortilla and alligator. Bagel, kosher and pastrami came from those who spoke Yiddish. And yam, gorilla and jitterbug were taken from African languages. So if you speak English, you use words from at least 35 foreign languages. [br] It can be concluded from the second paragraph that ______.
选项
A、English was created by Julius Caesar around AD 450
B、English has shorter history compared with Celtic
C、Anglo-Saxon conquerors brought English to Britain
D、the language spoken by Anglo-Saxon invaders is of Dutch origin
答案
B
解析
事实判断题。在讲到英语的历史时,段落中说到“English is relatively young.Its roots go back 1,500 years,to Britain People there spoke Celtic(英语是相对年轻的语言。它的发源可以回溯到1500年前的英国。那里的人们说的是凯尔特语) ”,由此可知,英语的历史要比凯尔特语的历史短。找到相关段落,仔细阅读,可以采取排除法。仔细阅读第二段便可以排除A) 、C) 、D) 。
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