Unit 2 课文原文改错-高考英语一轮复习人教新课标版必修一.docx

材料使用方法： 第一步,通读文章，校对出错误。 第二步,对照第二页答案，核对正误。 材料使用方法： 第一步,通读文章，校对出错误。 第二步,对照第二页答案，核对正误。 第三步，完成第三页配套阅读题。 Book 1 Unit 2 passage 1 THE ROAD TO MODERN ENGLISH 材料用途： 夯实双击，高中复习决战，回归教材。 材料适用范围： 英语人教版 A word one day, English is on the right way! PAGE 3 Mr. liu ? THE ROAD TO MODERN ENGLISH ??In the end of the 16th century, about five to seven millions people spoke English. Nearly all of them lived in England. Late in the next century, people from England made voyages to conquer another parts of the world and because of that, English began to be spoken in many other countries. Today, more people speak English as their first, second and a foreign language than ever before. ?Native English speakers can understand each other as if they dont speak the same kind of English. Look at this example: ???British Betty: Would you like to see my flat? ???American Amy: Yes. Id like to come up with your apartment. So why has English changed over time? Actually all languages change and develop when cultures meet and communicate with each other. At first the English spoke in England between about AD 450 and 1150 was very different from the English spoken today. It was based much on German than the English（that） we speak at the present. Then gradually between about AD 800 and 1150, English became less like German because those who ruled England spoke first Danish and later French. These new settlers enriched the English language and especial its vocabulary. So by the 1600s Shakespeare was able to make use of a wider vocabulary than ever before. In 1620 some British settlers moved to America. Later in the 18th century some British people were taken to Australia too. English began to be spoken in all 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 America Dictionary of the English Language. The latter gave the separate i