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必修一 必修一 Unit 2 广州智康英语学科组 PAGE1 / NUMPAGES14 必修一 必修一 Unit 2 Warming-up Warming-up THE ROAD TO MODERN ENGLISH At the end of the 16th century, about five to seven million people spoke English. Nearly all of them lived in England. Later in the next century, people from England made voyages _ _____ (征服)other parts of the world and _____ ___ （因为）that, English begin to be spoken in many other countries. Today, more people speak English as their first, second or a foreign language than ever before. _____ ___（本国的） English speakers can understand each other ____ ___ they dont speak the same kind of English. Look at this kind of example: British Betty: Would you like to see my flat? American Amy: Yes. I’d like to ____ ___（come） your apartment. So why has English changed over time? ___ ____（实际上） languages change and develop when cultures meet and communicate with each other. At first the English spoken in England between about AD 450 and 1150 was very different the English spoken today. It was _______（依据） more ______ German than the English we speak ______（目前）. Then ______ （渐渐地）between about AD800 to 1150, English became less like germen because those who ______（控制） England spoke first Danish and later French. These new settlers____ ____（rich） the English language and ___ _____（尤其） its vocabulary. So by the 1600’s Shakespeare was able to_____ __（use） a wider vocabulary than ever before. In 1620 some British settlers moved to American. Later in the 18th century some British people were taken to Australia too. English began to be spoken in both countries. Finally by the 19th century the language was settled. At that time two big changes in English spelling happened: first Samuel Johnson wrote his dictionary and later Noah Webster wrote The American Dictionary of the English Language. The latter gave a ______（分开的）identity to American English spelling. English now is also spoken as a foreign or second language in South Asia. For example, I