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1、页眉上写“2008年真题点评”PARTILISTENINGCOMPREHENSIONSECTIONAMINI-LECTUREThePopularityofEnglishI.PresentstatusofEnglishA.Englishasanative/firstlanguageB.Englishasalinguafranca:alanguageforcommunicationamongpeoplewhose(1)_native/firstlanguagesaredifferentC.NumberofpeoplespeakingEn
2、glishasafirstorasecondlanguage:—320-380millionnativespeakers—250-(2)350millionspeakersofEnglishasasecondlanguageII.ReasonsforthepopularuseofEnglishA.(3)Historicalreasons—thePilgrimFathersbroughtthelanguagetoAmerica;—BritishsettlersbroughtthelanguagetoAustralia;—English
3、wasusedasameansofcontrolin(4)formerBritishEmpireB.Economicreasons—spreadof(5)internationalcommerceGoodmorning,everyone.Today’slectureisaboutthepopularityofEnglish.Asweallknow,Englishiswidelyusedintheworld.AlthoughEnglishisNOTthelanguagewiththelargestnumberofnativeor“fi
4、rst”languagespeakers,ithasreallybecomealinguafranca.Then,whatisalinguafranca?[1]Thetermreferstoalanguagewhichiswidelyadoptedforcommunicationbetweentwospeakerswhosenativelanguagesaredifferentfromeachother’s,andwhereoneorbothspeakersareusingitasa“second”language.Forexamp
5、le,whenanIndiantalkstoaSingaporeanusingEnglish,thenEnglishisthelinguafranca.Then,actuallyhowmanypeoplespeakEnglishaseithera“first”ora“second”language?[2]Someresearcherssuggestedafewyearsagothatbetween320-380millionpeoplespokeEnglishasafirstlanguage,andanywherebetween25
6、0-350millionasasecondlanguage.Andofcourse,ifweincludepeoplewhoarelearningEnglishasaforeignlanguageallovertheworld,thatnumbermayincreasedramatically.Then,wemayaskaquestion:howdidEnglishgetthere?Thatis,howdidEnglishgainthepresentstatusofpopularity?Thereare,infact,anumber
7、ofinterlockingreasonsforthepopularityofEnglishasalinguafranca.Manyofthereasonsarehistorical,buttheyalsoincludeeconomicandculturalfactorsthathaveinfluencedandsustainedthespreadofthelanguage.Let’sgothroughthereasonsonebyone.[3]Firstisthehistoricalreason.Thisisrelatedtoth
8、ecolonialhistory.Asweknow,whenthePilgrimFatherslandedontheMassachusettscoastin1620,aftertheirjourneyfromEngland,theyb
