概括大意與完成句子題
　　English and English Community
　　1 There is no doubt that English is a useful language. The people who speak English today make up the largest speech community in the world with the exception of speakers of Chinese.
　　2 A speech community is similar to other kinds of communities. The people who make up the community share a common language. Often they live side by side, as they do in a neighborhood （街坊）, a village, or a city. More often they form a whole country. National boundaries, however, are not always the same as the boundaries of a speech community. A speech community is any group of people who speak the same language no matter where they happen to live.
　　3 We may say that anyone who speaks English belongs to the English speech community. For convenience （方便）, we may divide the speakers into two groups: one in which the speakers use English as their native language, the other in which the speakers learn English as a second language for the purpose of education, commerce, and so on.
　　4 Learning a second language extends one's vision and expands the mind, The history and literature of a second language record the real and fictional （虛構(gòu)） lives of people and their culture; a knowledge of them adds to our ability to understand and to feel as they feel. Learning English as a second language provides another means of communication through which the window of the entire English speech community becomes a part of our heritage.
　　1 Paragraph 1__________.
　　2 Paragraph 2__________.
　　3 Paragraph 3__________.
　　4 Paragraph 4___________.
　　A Threat Posed by English
　　B Definition of a Speech Community
　　C Benefits of Leaming a Second Language
　　D Advantages of Learning Chinese
　　E Two Groups of the English Speech Community
　　F A Widely Used Language
　　5 Overall there are more speakers of Chinese than of___________.
　　6 The boundaries of a speech community may be different from__________.
　　7 People who live in different places may belong to__________.
　　8 Many people learn English as___________.
　　A a second language
　　B the same language
　　C the same speech community
　　D any other language
　　E national boundaries
　　F a part of one's heritage
　　【參考答案】1. F 2. B 3. E 4. C 5. D 6. E 7. C 8. A