Unit 2 课时作业4-【红对勾讲与练】2022-2023学年新教材高中英语必修第一册(外研版)

Unit 2　 Exploring English 课时作业 4 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　阅读理解 A Language is always changing. In a society where life continues year after year with few changes, the language does not change, either. The earliest known languages had difficult grammar but a small, limited vocabulary. Over the century, the grammar changed, and the vocabulary grew. For example, the English and Spanish people who came to America during the sixteenth century gave names to all new plants and animals they found. In this way, hundreds of new words were introduced into English and Spanish vocabularies. Today life is changing very fast, and language is changing fast too. There are several major language families in the world. Some scientists say there are nine main families, but other scientists divide them differently. The languages in each family are connected, and scientists think that they came from the same parent language. About 3 percent of the people in the world speak languages that are not in these major families. 1. The early language had　 　 　 　 . A. a lot of problems B. words and easy grammar C. words but no grammar D. grammar but not many words 2. What􀆳s the main idea of the passage? A. Languages change fast. B. Languages really don􀆳t want to change. C. Language changes with changes of society. D. Spanish and English change. 3. From this article we can see that 　 　 　 　 . A. language can change very slowly or very quickly B. if we change, then our language won􀆳t change C. we should give our plants new names D. English and Spanish are the only languages th