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1、Module 3 unit 2 Reading填空Module 3 unit 2 Reading-English and its historyThe English language _ _ _ _ the grammar and _ these people brought to Britain. That is _ English has so many difficult rules that_ people.Old English is very _ from the English we speak _. Before the middle of the 5th _, people
2、 in Britain all spoke a language _ Celtic. Then two Germanic groups from the _ _ - the Angles and THE Saxons -_ Britain. Old English _ of a _ of their languages. (Both the English language and the English people are _ _ the Angles; the word Angle was spelt Engle in Old English.) _ _ place names such
3、 as London, very few Celtic words became _ of Old English. At the end of the 9th century, the Vikings, people from Northern European countries such as Denmark and Norway, began to move to Britain. They bought with them their languages, which also _ with Old English. By the 10th _, Old English _ _ th
4、e _ language of England.When we speak English today, we sometimes feel _ _ _ words or _ to use. This is _ English has many words and phrases from different languages, but with similar meanings.Many things _ _ _ in the development of this new type of English.(Middle English) The most important _ was
5、from the Normans, a _ people who _ England and _ _ _ the country in 1066. However, the _ _ did not _ English as much as the Angles and the Saxons victory about 600 years, which _ _ Old English _ Celtic. _ _ the Normans spoke French for the _ 250 years they _ England, French did not _ English as the
6、first language. On the other hand, the English language _ _ many words from French. After the _ _, many English people worked as _ who _ animals. _, the words we use for most animas _ for food come from Old English. Old English made other _ to Middle English as well. High-class people spoke French _
7、 common people spoke English. However, by the latter half of the 14th century, English had come into _ _. In 1399, Henry IV became King of England. His _ _ was English, and he used English for all _ events.Modern English _ many Latin and Greek words. _ also _ _ _ changes. The question of _ English w
8、ill keep on changing in the future is easy to answer. _ _ _ _this _ will continue, and people will keep _ new words.The development of Chinese charactersThe Chinese language _ _ Western languages _ _ instead of an _, it uses _ which _ _ ideas, objects or _. Chinese words are _ by putting together di
9、fferent _. In many cases, a single character can also _ _ a word.According to an ancient story, a man _ Cang Jie _ Chinese writing. One winter day while he was _, he saw the _ of animals in the snow and _ that the _ of each one was different. Then he had the idea _ he could use different shapes to _
10、 different objects. Some characters have been _ and _ have been made more difficult _ time. However, _ _ _, the characters have developed from drawings into _ _.Not all _ were developed from drawings of objects. Sometimes to _ ideas, some characters were made by _ two or more characters together. Th
11、e character prisoner was _ with a man inside a square. It is easy to _ their meanings by looking at them, for example, the characters for up and down, which are _ of each other. Though these kinds of characters _ meanings, one of their _ is that they do not show how they should be _.In the 1950s the
12、 Chinese government _ _ Chinese characters and now they have _ use in Chinas _.The story of BrailleWhen we talk about reading, we think of using our eyes to see letters written _ _. The man who _ blind people to _ was Louis Braille(1809-1852). Braille _ his _ at the age of three as a result of an_. In those days, books for blind people used paper _ _ metal wire to form letters. _ the metal wire was heavy, each book _ as much as 100 pounds. The whole _ was not _
