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Unit 2 English around the world (1) Ⅰ.课文缩写 At the end of the 16th century，English was only spoken by people from England.They were native speakers.Today，the largest number of people 1.________ English may be in China.A lot of Chinese people speak English 2.________ their foreign language. 3．________ English language 4.________ quite a lot over the last four centuries.Old English sounded more 5.________ less like German for it was 6.________ on German，but 7.________ English sounds more like French than German 8.________ England was once ruled by the French. Two people had great effects on the English changes.One was Shakespeare，who 9.________ the English vocabulary；the other was Noah Webster，who wrote a dictionary 10.________ gave American English its own identity. 答案 1.speaking 2.as 3.The 4.has changed 5.or 6.based 7.modern 8.because 9.enlarged10．that/which Ⅱ.单词拼写 1．Production in the factories stopped because of ________(频繁的)power failures. 2．You can always tell the difference between the tourists and ________(当地人)． 3．A dead body was found under the bridge，but it was hard to determine the ________(身份)． 4．If you want to read quickly and well，you should increase your ________(词汇)． | 
