专业英语八级（阅读）模拟题2019年(21)
(总分100,考试时间155分钟)
PART II READING COMPREHENSION
SECTION A MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONSIn this ction there are veral passages followed by fourteen multiple-choice questions. For each multiple-choice question, there are four suggested answers marked [A] , [B], [C] and [D]. Choo the one that you think is the best answer.
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sars (1)It is nothing new that English u is on the ri around the world, especially in business circles. This also happens in France, the headquarters of the global battle against American cultural hegemony. If French guys are giving in to English, something really big must be going on. And something big is going on.
abdomen (2)Partly, it's that American hegemony. Didier Benchimol, CEO of a French ecommerce **pany, **pelled to speak English perfectly becau the Internet software business is domin
ated by Americans. He and other French businessmen also have to speak English becau they want to get their message out to American investors, posssors of the world's deepest pockets.
spontaneous模范英语 (3)The triumph of English in France and elwhere in Europe, however, may rest on something more enduring. As they become entwined with each other politically and economically, Europeans need a way to talk to one another and to the rest of the world. And for a number of reasons, they've decided upon English as **mon tongue.
(4)So when German chemical and **pany Hoechst merged with **petitor Rhone-Poulenc last year, **panies cho the vaguely Latinate Aventis as the **pany name—-and ttled on English as **pany's common language. When monetary policymakers from around Europe began meeting at the European Central Bank in Frankfurt last year to t interest rates for the new Euroland, they held their deliberations in English. Even the European Commission, with 11 official languages and a traditionally French-speaking bureaucracy, effectively switched over to English as its working language last year.
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(5)How did this happen? One school attributes English's great success to the sheer weight of its merit. It's a Germanic language, brought to Britain around the fifth century A.D. During the four centuries of French-speaking rule that followed Norman Conquest of 1066, the language morphed into something el entirely. French words were added wholesale, and most of **plications of Germanic grammar were shed while few of **plications of French were added. The result is a language with a huge vocabulary and a simple grammar that can express most things more efficiently than either of its parents. What's more, English has remained ungoverned and open to change—foreign words, coinages, and grammatical shifts—in a way that French, ruled by the purist Academie Francai, has not.
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(6)So it's a swell language, especially for business. But the ri of English over the past few centuries clearly owes at least as much to history and economics as to the language's ability to economically express the concept win-win. What happened is that **petition—first Latin, then French, then, briefly, German—faded with the waning of the political, economic, and military fortunes of, respectively, the Catholic Church, France, anunbreak my heart
d Germany. All along, English was increasing in importance: Britain was the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, and London the world's most important financial centre, which made English a key language for business. England's colonies around the world also made it the language with the most global reach. And as that former colony the U.S. ro to the status of the world's preeminent political, economic, military, and cultural power, English became the obvious cond language to learn.
(7)In the 1990s more and more Europeans found themlves forced to u English. The last generation of business and government leaders who hadn't studied English in school was leaving the stage. The European Community was adding new members and evolving from a paper-shuffling club into a rious regional government that would need a **mon language if it were ever to get anything done. Meanwhile, economic barriers between European nations have been disappearing, meaning that more and **panies are beginning to look at the whole continent as their domestic market. And then the Internet came along.
(8)The Net had two big impacts. One was that it was an exciting, potentially lucrative new industry that had its roots in the U.S., so if you wanted to get in on it, you had to speak some English. The other was that by surfing the Web, Europeans who had previously encountered English only in school and in pop songs were **ing into contact with it daily.
(9)None of this means English has taken over European life. According to the European Union, 47% of Western Europeans(including the British and Irish)speak English well enough to carry on a conversation. That's a lot more than tho who can speak German(32%)or French(28%), but it still means more Europeans don't speak the language. If you want to ll shampoo or cell phones, you have to do it in French or German or Spanish or Greek. Even me U.S. and British **panies that stand to benefit most from the spread of English have been hedging their bets—CNN broadcasts in Spanish; the Financial Times has recently launched a daily German-language edition.
(10)But just look at who speaks English: 77% of Western European college students, 6
9% of managers, and 65% of tho aged 15 to 24. In the condary schools of the European Union's non-English-speaking countries, 91% of students study English, all of which means that the transition to English as the language of European business hasn't been all that traumatic, and it's only going to get easier in the future.
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