2、Long after its introduction into the New World, American English was still considered non-standard English. According to some people of the 1780s American English was a peasant’s language that a “gentleman” will not speak. Considered in a bilingual point of view, British English was the dominant language linked to prestige and language purism （純潔）. The belief in the authority or say in the superior of British English, has remained to the twentieth century, especially in the former British Empire or in the fields of British influence.
Thus, it is reported that in China, teachers and school textbooks refer to and recommend Received Pronunciation as the model, as well as standard British sentence structures, spelling and words. British English is also encouraged and accepted as the criteria of some major official examinations, for example, College English Test and Test for English Majors which are conducted by government. Similar situations could be found in countries, for example, in Africa, the West African Examination Council and Joint Admission accepts the British English as the standard English. Report can also be found that in Cairo some university students received lower grades if they used American spellings instead of British English. In Europe, we find teachers, British people as well as natives of the country in which they work, who follow the British English standard, and laugh at the American English.
However, the above attitudes are nothing but the last influence of a long-gone period of British supermacy （霸權）. The beginning of a clear lead of American English can be traced to the decades after World War Ⅱ. This coincides with the simultaneous （同時的） rise of the US as a military and technological power and the decline of the British Empire, which drove many to American English. And from then on, American English has continuously sent its influence to every corner of the planet.
56. From the first paragraph, we know that .
A. American English was thought to be in a weaker position
B. American English was a kind of official language
C. American English was a language that gentlemen couldn’t understand
D. American English was spoken by peasants in the New World
57. Where do the students get poor mark if they use American spellings?
A. In China. B. In Cairo. C. In Europe. D. In Western Africa.
58. From the last paragraph, we can make a conclusion that .
A. Americans drive many people to learn American English by force
B. as the British Empire fell down in the WWⅡ, so did British English
C. a country’s language will spread as its economy develops
D. it is the WWⅡ that promotes the influence the American English
59. The main idea of the passage is .
A. there are big differences between American English and British English
B. how American English developed into standard English in the end
C. people began to admit American English as standard as British English
D. American English is having advantage over British English.
科目：高中英語 來源： 題型：閱讀理解
Long after its introduction into the New World, American English was still considered non-standard English. According to some people of the 1780s American English was a peasant’s language that a “gentleman” will not speak. Considered in a bilingual point of view, British English was the dominant language linked to prestige and language purism （純潔）. The belief in the authority or say in the superior of British English, has remained to the twentieth century, especially in the former British Empire or in the fields of British influence.
Thus, it is reported that in
However, the above attitudes are nothing but the last influence of a long-gone period of British supermacy （霸權）. The beginning of a clear lead of American English can be traced to the decades after World War Ⅱ. This coincides with the simultaneous （同時的） rise of the US as a military and technological power and the decline of the British Empire, which drove many to American English. And from then on, American English has continuously sent its influence to every corner of the planet.
56. From the first paragraph, we know that .
A. American English was thought to be in a weaker position
B. American English was a kind of official language
C. American English was a language that gentlemen couldn’t understand
D. American English was spoken by peasants in the New World
57. Where do the students get poor mark if they use American spellings?
A. In China. B. In Cairo. C. In Europe. D. In Western Africa.
58. From the last paragraph, we can make a conclusion that .
A. Americans drive many people to learn American English by force
B. as the British Empire fell down in the WWⅡ, so did British English
C. a country’s language will spread as its economy develops
D. it is the WWⅡ that promotes the influence the American English
59. The main idea of the passage is .
A. there are big differences between American English and British English
B. how American English developed into standard English in the end
C. people began to admit American English as standard as British English
D. American English is having advantage over British English.
科目：高中英語 來源： 題型：051
Being the ruling language of the other native Englishes (Canadian English, Australian English, New Zealand English and South African English),British English and American English today are the two main English languages of the English-speaking world. Although too many has already been said over how the types, and the possible effects between the two kinds will be in the future, the quarrel on the problem has not come to an end at all.?
The difference between the two kinds of English have continue over the centuries. Noah Webster (in Dissertations on the English Language)requests that American language should come from the necessary English. He also predicted(預測)that “North American English would sometime be as different from British as Dutch, Danish and Swedish are from German or from one another”.
Writers of the twentieth century hold entirely different attitude toward those of the old centuries, they hope to have a much more pure feeling between American and British English. Thus, long after its introduction(介紹) into the New World, American English was still considered non-standard English. Mr. Kahane pointed out that according to some people of the 1780s American English was the a peasant's language that a “gentleman” will not speak.
According to Campbell's guess,70% of 350 million native English speakers speak the American English. In fact, the populations of the two leading mother tongue English countries are even more. The United States has a population of about 260 million while there is only about 55 million in Britain.
1) What languages are important in the English speaking world now?
The important languages are _______.
2) Which languages are from Germany and another country?
There are _______, _______and _______.
3) What do you think is not native and pure when American English into the New World?
_______ was considered non-standard English.?
4) In which country do you think native English speakers who speak American English are fewer?
I think _______ in Britain are fewer than in America. ?
科目：高中英語 來源：設計必修1英語(人教版) 人教版 題型：051
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