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2023浙江中考英语逆袭冲刺 名校模拟真题特快专递
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专题01 语法填空15篇
(2022·浙江杭州·模拟预测)阅读下面材料,在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。将答案填写在答题纸的相应位置。
At the end of the 16th century, about five to seven ____1____ (million) people speak English. Nearly all of them lived in England. Later in the next century, people from England made voyages to conquer other parts of the world and because of that, English began to be spoken in many other countries. Today, more people speak English ____2____ their first, second or a foreign language than ever before.
So why has English changed over time? Actually all languages change and develop ____3____ cultures meet and communicate with each other. At first the English spoken in England between about AD 450 and 1150 was very different from the English spoken today. It was based more on German than the English we speak at present. Then gradually between about AD 800 and 1150, English became ____4____ little like German because those ____5____ ruled England spoke first Danish and later French.