2019高考名师宝典英语模拟试卷20

2019高考名师宝典英语模拟试卷20 姓名：__________ 班级：__________考号：__________ 一、阅读理解 1.阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C或D）中，选出最佳选项Canadian English is the variety of Englishspoken in Canada. English, instead of French, is the first language, or “mothertongue”， of approximately 24 millionCanadians (77%), and more than 28 million (86%) are fluent in the language. Canadian English contains elements ofBritish English and American English in its vocabulary, as well as Canadiannative language. In many areas, speech is influenced by French, and there arenotable local variations. Canada has very little dialect diversity compared tothe United States. Canadian English and American English are sometimesclassified together as North American English. Canadian English spelling islargely a combination of British and American conventions(惯例)． The term “Canadian English” is firstproved in a speech by the Reverend A. Constable Geikie in a speech to theCanadian Institute in 1857. Geikie, a Scottish-born Canadian, reflected the Anglocentricattitude that would be common in Canada for the next hundred years when hereferred to the language as “a ruined dialect，” incomparison to what he considered the proper English spoken by immigrants fromBritain. Canadian English is the product of fourwaves of immigration and settlement over a period of almost two centuries. Thefirst large wave of long English-speaking settlement in Canada, andlinguistically the most important, was the arrival of Loyalists escaping fromthe American Revolution, chiefly from the Mid-Atlantic states—as such, CanadianEnglish is believed by some scholars to have come from northern AmericanEnglish. Recent studies suggest that Canadian English has been developingfeatures of its own since the early 19th century. The second wave from Britainand Ireland was encouraged to settle in Canada after the War of 1812 by thegovernors of Canada. Waves of immigration from around the globe peaking in 1910and 1960 had a lesser influence. （1）We can infer that Geiki