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一、阅读下面的材料,完成任务。
The Future of Chinese
Do you know that one fifth of the people speak Chinese? About 873 million people speak ① it at home in China. Outside China, people in Singapore, Malaysia and some other Asian countries also speak Chinese.
②That makes Chinese a widely used language in the world.
③in, Chinese, schoolchildren, UK, the, are, USA, and, learning(. )
In the future, people will speak Chinese as an international language because China is becoming a very important country in the world.
④Many foreigners visit China, and many countries trade China. So many people will learn Chinese and speak Chinese as an international language.
1. 写出文中①处画线代词所指内容。
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2. 将文中②处画线句子翻译成汉语。
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3. 将文中③处画线内容连词成句(标点符号已在括号内给出)。
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4. 文中④处画线句子有一处错误, 改正、将正确的句子抄写在横线上。
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5. Why does the writer think Chinese will be an international language?
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二、阅读下面的材料,完成任务。
Jeff Gaye, the young American swimmer, is ① more and more famous. He has his own teacher, driver and even his own cook. Each time people hear him speak on television, they can’t believe he’s only 13. Jeff’s father is an engineer but he is also his son’s manager. He says, “I don’t make Jeff do anything he doesn’t want to do. He chooses which competition to swim in. But he works hard and wins nearly every race. I cut out all the newspaper articles about him and put them in a big box!”
Jeff is very busy every day because people want to write about him or photograph (给……拍照) him for magazines. “When I’m at school,” Jeff says, “I just want to be like my classmates. That’s really important to me.” But Jeff doesn’t have a normal schoolboy’s life. He often has to travel for “international races and has