D．she could hardly understand what London people spoke

　　解析：选D　细节理解题。由短文第一段最后一句可知。

　　3．Things have changed so much that people are not used to ________ any more.

　　A．watching TV and listening to the radio

　　B．reading books and magazines

　　C．travelling just within the British islands

　　D．travelling the world over

　　解析：选C　细节理解题。短文第二段第三句提示答案。

　　4．Today standard English is ________.

　　A．dying out slowly

　　B．being used by London people only

　　C．being used outside London in the south and east Midlands

　　D．being used by more and more people

　　解析：选D　推理判断题。短文最后一段说明标准英语现在被越来越多的人应用着。

　　B

　　For Chinese students nowadays, no matter what kind of schools they're going to, they have to face the problem of learning English.All examinations they want to pass require them to pass English.

　　Entering further education, studying abroad and even graduating from college require scores in English examinations.English has become the most popular course in tutorial classes and even in the self­study classroom.

　　When nearly all students' attention is focused on English, looking at the situation of our mother language, even Chinese linguists (语言学家) get confused about its use.Not only have many new words and phrases which are very popular on the Internet started to fill in every corner of the society, but the common use of Chinese is full of mistakes and misunderstandings.

　　Under such urgent situation for the Chinese language, it's time for every Chinese person to start protecting our mother tongue.

　　Chinese has the most speakers in the world and also is one of the oldest languages in history.Around the world, many countries have started learning Chinese and Chinese has become one of the most important foreign languages in some foreign countries.

　　Besides, there are 282 Confucius institutions around 88 countries and regions in the world that are teaching Chinese.The number of people learning Chinese is about 50 million outside China.

For those foreigners that are so crazy about Chinese language, what kind of attitude