2019-2020学年外研版高中英语选修8创新学案:Module 4 课下能力提升(十五)
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  _________________young people believe that money is a passport to happiness.

  5. 我很相信她在这方面的经验。

  I ________________ her experience in it.

  Ⅳ.完形填空

  

  Before 1066, in the place that we now call Great Britain lived peoples belonging to two major language groups. In the west central place lived the Welsh, who __1__ a Celtic language (凯尔特语), and in the north lived the Scots, whose language, __2__ 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 peoples, who spoke __3__ we now call Anglo­Saxon (or Old English), a Germanic language. If this state of affairs had __4__, English today would be close to German.

  __5__ this state of affairs did not last. In 1066 the Normans led by William __6__ the Saxons and __7__ their rule over England. For about a century, French __8__ the official language of England __9__ Old English became the language of peasants. __10__, English words of politics and the law came from French __11__ German. In some __12__, Modern English even __13__ a distinction (区别) between upper­class French and lower­class Anglo­Saxon in its words. We even have __14__ words for some foods, meat in particular, __15__ 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 upper­class Normans were doing most of the __16__.

  When A mericans __17__ Europe for the first time, they usually find Germany more __18__ than France because the German they see on signs and advertisements seems much more different from English than French does.Few __19__ that the English language is actually Germanic in its beginning and that the French influences are all the result of one __20__ ambition.

  1. A.said   B. spoke

  C. declared D. announced

  2. A.because B. if

  C. although D. unless

  3. A.what B. that

  C. which D. how

  4. A.conveyed B. stopped

  C. interrupted D. lasted

  5. A.And B. Or

C. But D. So