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    One afternoon, Henry, an old man from America, telephoned from the airport to tell me that he had arrived.

He was going to stay with me. I was still at the office at the time, but I had prepared for his coming. After

explaining where my new house was, I told him where I had left the key. As I was likely to be home rather late,

I asked him to go into the kitchen and help himself to food and drink.

    Two hours later my friend telephoned me from the flat. At the moment, he said, he was listening to some of

my records after having just had a truly wonderful meal. He had cooked two eggs and had helped himself to

some cold chicken from the refrigerator.

     Now, he said, he was drinking a glass of orange juice and he hoped I would join him. When I asked him if

he had reached the flat without difficulty he answered that he had not been able to find the key, but luckily the

living-room window just by the apple tree had been left open and he had climbed in. I listened to all this in

surprise. There is no apple tree in front of my living-room, but there is one in front of my neighbour's!

1. I knew that Henry would _____. [ ]

A. call at my office

B. arrive

C. telephone me from the airport

D. meet my neighbour

2. I asked him to go into the kitchen and help himself to food and drink because _____. [ ]

A. he was very hungry

B. he liked good food

C. I would very probably be home late

D. I disliked being bothered

3. Henry said he was listening to some of the records _____. [ ]

A. before he had a meal

B. because he had nothing to do

C. because he wasn' t hungry

D. after he had had a wonderful meal

4. When Henry telephoned me from the flat he was _____. [ ]

A. listening to some records

B. drinking a glass of orange juice

C. doing nothing

D. both A and B

5. Henry entered the house _____. [ ]

A. without difficulty

B. as he had been told to

C. through the open window

D. by opening the door with the key

答案

1-5: BCDDC

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     If you ask people to name the one person who had the greatest effect on the English language, you will

get answers like "Shakespeare," "Samuel Johnson," and "Webster," but none of these men had any effect at

all compared to a man who didn't even speak English -William the Conqueror.

     Before 1066,in the land we now call Great Britain lived peoples belonging to two major language groups.

In the west-central region lived the Welsh, who spoke a Celtic language,and in the north lived the Scots,

whose language, though not the same as Welsh, was also Celtic.In the rest of the country lived the Saxons,

actually a mixture of Anglos, Saxons,and other Germanic and Nordic people,who spoke what we now call

Anglo-Saxon (or Old English ), a Germanic language. If this state of affairs had lasted, English today would

be close to German.

     But this state of affairs did not last. In 1066 the Normans led by William defeated the Saxons and began

their rule over England.For about a century,French became the official language of England while Old English

became the language of peasants. As a result,English words of politics and the law come from French rather

than German. In some cases,modern English even shows a distinction (区别) between upper-class French

and lower-class Anglo-Saxon in its words.We even have different words for some foods, meat in particular,

depending on whether it is still out in the fields or at home ready to be cooked,which shows the fact that the

Saxon peasants were doing the farming, while the upper-class Normans were doing most of the eating.

     When Americans visit Europe for the first time, they usually find Germany more "foreign" than France

because the German they see on signs and advertisements seems much more different from English than

French does.Few realize that the English language is actually Germanic in its beginning and that the French

influences are all the result of one man's ambition.

1. The two major languages spoken in what is now called Great Britain before 1066 were _____. 

A. Welsh and Scottish

B. Nordic and Germanic

C. Celtic and Old English

D. Anglo-Saxon and Germanic

2. Which of the following groups of words are,by inference,rooted in French?

A. president,lawyer,beef

B. president, bread,water

C. bread,field,sheep

D. folk,field,cow

3. Why does France appear less foreign than Germany to Americans on their first visit to Europe?

A. Most advertisements in France appear in English.

B. They know little of the history of the English language.

C. Many French words are similar to English ones.

D. They know French better than German.

4. What is the subject discussed in the text?

A. The history of Great Britain.

B. The similarity between English and French

C. The rule of England by William the Conqueror.

D. The French influences on the English language.

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