12 语言和文学-2022-2023 高中高三英语阅读理解专项训练(含答案)--按主题分类【上海专用】

12 语言和文学 A bilingual country Canada is a bilingual country with "co-official" languages. English and French enjoy equal status as the official languages of the country. This means that the public has the right to communicate with and receive services from federal(联邦的) government institutions in either English or French. Federal government employees have the right to work in the official language of their choice in bilingual regions. Like the United States, Canada started as a colony. Beginning in the 1500s, it was part of New France but later became a British colony after the Seven Years' War. As a result, the Canadian government officially recognized the languages of both colonizers: France and England. The Constitution(宪法) Act of 1867 legally accepts the use of both languages in federal courts. Years later, Canada strengthened its commitment to bilingualism when it passed the Official Languages Act of 1969, which restated the constitutional origins of its co-official languages and