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1、Atpresent,Englishisoneoftheworld’smostwildlyusedlanguage.ThehistoryoftheEnglishlanguagebeganover1500yearsagointhenorthofEurope.AroundthefifthcenturyA.D.,tribesofpeopleknownastheAngels,Saxons,andJutestraveledwestfromGermanyandDenmarkacrosstheNorthSea.T
2、heysettledinBritain,andbythelateseventhcentury,theywerespeakinganearlyformtheEnglish.Inthelateeighthcentury,theVikingsattackedEngland.Fightingcontinuedforalmosttwohundredyears.Duringthistime,manyLatin,Danish,andNorsewordsenteredtheEnglishlanguage.Lati
3、ngaveEnglishwordslikekitchenandcup.FromDanishandNorse,Englishborrowedskin,leg,andthepronounsthem,their,andthey.manysynonymsfromtheNorselanguagebecameintegratedintoEnglish.In1066,theNormansconqueredEngland.Frenchbecamethelanguageofthewealthyandpowerful
4、,andEnglishwasspokenmostlybypoorerpeople.Inthelatefourteenthcentury,Englishbecamethefirstlanguageagain.Bythistime,manywordsusedinEnglishcamefromFrenchorLatin,andalotoftheearlywordsnolongerexisted.Inthesixteenthandseventeenthcenturies,peoplebecameinter
5、estedintheclassics.Atthistime,wordsfromLatinandGreekwereincludedintheEnglishlanguage.alotofwords,orpartsofwords,fromthoselanguagesareusedinmodernEnglish.Today,Englishhasloanwordsfrommanyoftheworld’slanguages.YoucanprobablyfindawordusedinEnglishthatfir
6、stcamefromyournativelanguage.Atpresent,Englishisoneoftheworld’smostwildlyusedlanguages.ThehistoryoftheEnglishlanguagebeganover1500yearsagointhenorthofEurope.AroundthefifthcenturyA.D.,tribesofpeopleknownastheAngelsandSaxonstraveledwestfromGermanyandDen
7、markacrosstheNorthSea.TheysettledinBritain,andbythelateseventhcentury,theywerespeakinganearlyformtheEnglish.Inthelateeighthcentury,theVikingsattackedEngland.Fightingcontinuedforalmosttwohundredyears.Duringthistime,manyLatin,Danish,andNorsewordsentered
8、theEnglishlanguage.LatingaveEnglishwordslikekitchenandcup.In1066,theNormansconqueredEngland.Frenchbecamethelanguageofthewealthyandpowerful,andEnglishwasspokenmostlybypoorerpeople.Inthelatefourteenthcentury,Englishbecamethefirstlanguageagain.By
