Many English ___3___ come from Latin（拉丁語）, the old language of Rome（羅馬）,and also ___4___ Greek. From Latin we got words such as“wine”,“use”and“day”. From Greek we have words like“photograph”,“Bible”（圣經(jīng)）and“ink”. There are ___5___ many words from ___6___ Greek and Latin together“television”,for example. Here“tele”is Greak for“far”and“vision”comes from Latin and means“seeing”.

　　 Many common ___7___ words come from very strange places.“Tea”is from China and“banana”from West Africa.“Potato”came ___8___ the English language from Haiti（海地）, and“tomato”first came from Mexico.

　　In modern Britain there are four separate languages: English, Welsh（威爾士語）, Scotish Gaelic（蘇格蘭蓋爾語）and Irish Gaelic（愛爾蘭蓋爾語）. And the English language ___9___ is very different from one place to another. There are also many ___10___ in spelling, vocabulary and pronunciation ___11___ American and British English.

A Frenchman went to visit New York. He didn’t know English. When he   1   New York, he   2    a taxi to the hotel.

It was Sunday. The Frenchman went out   3   a walk. When he walked down the street, he suddenly thought   4   his way back. On the wall near the corner of the street, he saw some English words. He   5   on his notebook. “Now I know the name of this street,” he said to himself. “It’ll be easy for me to come back to the   6  .” He walked for a long time in the city. Then he felt tired and wanted to go back. He took the notebook out of his pocket and   7   the name of the street to a young man. But he didn’t know what the Frenchman wanted. He stopped an old man, but the old man didn’t understand him,   8  .

Then the Frenchman saw a young woman. The young woman knew   9   French. When she   10   the words in his notebook, She laughed, for in the Frenchman’s notebook, there were only three words: “ One Way Street”.

1．A．got                   B．a(chǎn)rrived               C．reached                    D．went

2．A．took                 B．by                  C．sat                        D．carried

3．A．to                   B．for                  C．in                         D．with

4．A．（不填）             B．that                 C．over                              D．of

5．A．write down it          B．write down them     C．wrote it down     D．wrote them down

6．A．school               B．hotel                C．park                       D．street

7．A．showed              B．read                C．spoke                     D．brought

8．A．neither                B．a(chǎn)lso                 C．either                      D．too

9．A．a(chǎn) lot                  B．many              C．some                      D．a(chǎn)ny

10．A．see                        B．looked              C．watched                           D．read