Question

 How many kinds of languages are there on earth in the world? Maybe no one can 1 this question surely. Generally speaking, there are 2kinds of languages in the world. One is your mother language. You learn 3 at home with your family when you are little. The second kind is foreign language that is 4 abroad and that you can learn at school. The third kind is the official language of your country. It is used in official papers and spoken 5 the radio and official television. The fourth kind is the dead language. It is not spoken any more 6 still exists(存在)in written papers. For example, Latin.

  English is the most popular language in the world now. It has a large number of 7and users. And it 8 an important part in the government and education of India，South Africa, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and most parts of America. It is used all over the world. Though English is 9 spoken, there are more people speaking Chinese than those who speak English. The only 10 is that there are more than one billion Chinese people in the world！

(   ) 1. A. solve    B. answer

      C. accept    D. ask

(   ) 2. A. two    B. three

       C. four    D. five

(   ) 3. A. it    B. him

       C. this    D. them

(   ) 4. A. talked    B. told

       C. spoken    D. taught

(   ) 5. A. for    B. at

        C. in    D. on

(   ) 6. A. and    B. but

      C. or    D. so

(   ) 7. A. students    B. teachers

       C. speakers    D. traders

(   ) 8. A. lays    B. plays

       C. takes    D. forms

(   ) 9. A. widely    B. nearly

       C. certainly    D. hardly

(   ) 10. A. way    B. fact

        C. problem    D. reason

Answer 1

1. B

2. C 短文第一段共提到四种类型的语言。

3. A   用it指代上文的foreign language。

4. C

5. D

6. B 由句意可知上下文为转折关系。

7. C 本句意为"有大量说英语和使用英语的人。"speaker，指"说（某种语言）的人"，符合句意。

8. B

9. A

10. D reason意为"原因"。上下文大意为:尽管英语使用广泛，伹说汉语的人却更多。唯一的原因是……