[佳句赏析]据报道这次洪灾造成的损失超过了三百万美元。

　　It is reported that the damage of the flood was more than three million dollars.

　　2. [教材原句]Not all idioms have been common for many years.

　　并非所有的习语都是多年来常用的。

　　[句型点拨]部分否定。

　　[佳句赏析]并不是每个女孩都喜欢赶时髦。

　　Not every girl likes to keep up with the fashions.

　　3. [教材原句]English has a huge number of colourful and splendid expressions which may be difficult to understand.

　　英语中有大量绚烂华丽但可能很难懂的表达。

　　[句型点拨]主语＋be＋adj. ＋to do sth.。

　　[佳句赏析]这两个单词很容易区别。

　　The two words are easy to tell apart.

　　The Future of English

　　Ever since the invention of the first telegraph at the end of the 19th century, English has been spreading around the world. It has a powerful influence in the media, on the Internet and in pop music that is not going to go away. This communication revolution has turned the world into a "global village" in which everyone needs to talk to each other - and so often nowadays that means in English.

　　More people now speak English as a second language across the world than as a native language. It is estimated that 1.3 billion people will use English as either a first or a second language by 2050. But what will that form of English be like? Traditionally, British English has been taught across the world, but it is only one variety. Experts believe that the future shape and grammar of English, especially in its spoken form, will no longer be determined in the traditional English­speaking countries like Britain and America but in the rest of Europe, Asia and Africa.

International organisations and businesses communicate with each other in English. But a new pattern of using English is developing that does not look the same to native speakers as "traditional" English. Researchers are now investigating "non­native" English which is a new form of the language with changes in grammar, pronunciation and meaning. Often meanings and words from other languages find their way into English to produce a new dialect such as "Franglais" which combines aspects of French and English. You could say this gives English a French flavour. All of these processes are a form of natural evolution. New dialects acquire their own complex features until they become real languages in their own right. Experts are convinced