Ⅳ.课文语法填空

　　There are as many varieties of English 1.as there are speakers of it. English is spoken as an official language in more than 60 countries, and 2.it can sound very different from place to place. It is easy for us 3.to_tell British English from American English.

　　There is not really a standard form 4.that everyone can agree on and English is widely spoken, so it is hard to tell which English is correct. As long as speakers can understand each other, 5.correctness (correct) doesn't matter.

　　Australian English has traces of both Irish and cockney speech patterns, 6.because the first speakers were prisoners who came from all over Britain. Many of the Aboriginal words passed into the language. But the main differences lie 7.in individual sounds and intonation patterns.

　　In Jamaica, this is not 8.the case. The 9.variety (vary) of English has some of the grammatical features of the American languages.

　　In Singapore, English is spoken by about half the population. Scientists often end with the word lah. English 10.has_been_influenced (influence) especially by Malay and the Chinese dialect Hokkien.

　　Ⅴ.串点成篇微表达

　　他们正在为哪种英语更好展开辩论(debate)。回答这个问题确实很难。当人们混合着方言说英语时，你能区分开(tell ...apart)它们吗？专家们认为哪种英语更好并不重要(matter)，只要(as long as)说话的人彼此明白就行--重要(count)的是交流本身。

　　They_are_debating_which_variety_of_English_is_better._It's_hard_to_answer._When_people_speak_English_with_their_own_dialects,_can_you_tell_them_apart?_Experts_believe_that_it_doesn't_matter_which_English_is_better,_as_long_as_speakers_can_understand_each_other_-_it's_communication_that_counts.

　　二、勤练高考题型，多练自能生巧

　　Ⅰ.完形填空

　　Sandy Greenberg came from a poor family. He went to Columbia University on a scholarship and there he met his roommate who also was receiving financial __1__.

　　Unfortunately, Sandy had a(n) __2__ disease during his second year at Columbia University, and finally he became blind. But __3__ for Sandy, something else also happened to him - his roommate would __4__ his textbooks to him, every night after he lost his sight.

　　As a result, Sandy went on to __5__ with honors. He went off to study at the University of Oxford. He was still quite poor, but he had managed to __6__ about five hundred dollars as he went along.

His roommate __7__ went on to graduate school. One day, Sandy got a __8__ from him. His former roommate said, "Sandy, I'm really __9__ I really don't like being in graduate school, and I don't want to do this."