阅读下面这篇短文，短文后有2项测试任务：(1)第23～26题要求从所给的6个选项中为第2～5段每段选择1个正确的小标题;(2)第27～30题要求从所给的6个选项中选择4个正确选项，分别完成每个句子。请将答案涂在答题卡相应的位置上.

　　English and English Community

　　1 There is no doubt that English is a useful language.The people who speak English today make up the largest speech community in the world with the exception of speakers of Chinese.

　　2 A speech community is similar to other kinds of communities.The people who make up the community share a common language.Often they live side by side, as they do in a neighborhood (街坊)，a village，or a city.More often they form a whole country.National boundaries，however，are not always the same as the boundaries of a speech community.A speech community is any group of people who speak the same language no matter where they happen to live.

　　3 We may say that anyone who speaks English belongs to the English speech community.For convenience(方便)，we may divide the speakers into two groups: one in which the speakers use English as their native language, the other in which the speakers 1earn English as a second language for the purpose of education，commerce，and so on.

　　4 Learning a second language extends one’s vision and expands the mind.The history and literature of a second language record the real and fictional(虚构的)lives of people and their culture;a knowledge of them adds to our ability to understand and to feel as they feel.Learning English as a second language provides another means of communication through which the window of the entire English speech community becomes a part of our heritage.

　　23 Paragraph 1

　　24 Paragraph 2

　　25 Paragraph 3

　　26 Paragraph 4

　　A Threat Posed by English

　　B Definition of a Speech Community

　　C Benefits of Learning a Second Language

　　D Advantages of Learning Chinese

　　E Two Groups of the English Speech Community

　　F A Widely Used Language

　　27 Overall there are more speakers of Chinese than of .

　　28 The boundaries of a speech community may be different from .

　　29 People who live in different places may belong to .

　　30 Many people learn English as .

　　A a second language

　　B the same language

　　C the same speech community

　　D any other language

　　E national boundaries

　　F a part of one’s heritage

　　答案解析

　　23 F 文章第一段介绍说世界上除了汉语之外，应用最广的就是英语了。

　　24 B 文章第二段主要讲的是什么是“a speech community”，即“a speech community”的定义。

　　25 E 文章第三段进而将“the English speech community”分为两组，即以英语为母语的人为一组和以英语为第二语言的人为一组。

　　26 C 文章第四段主要讲学习第二语言的益处。

　　27 D 从文章第一段可以得知，说汉语的人比说任何其他语言的人都要多。

　　28 E 从文章第二段可以得知，“a speech community”的边界与一个国家的边界有可能不同。

　　29 C 从文章第二段可以得知，居住在不同地区的人们却有可能同属一个“speech community”。

　　30 A 从文章第二段可以推断，许多人将英语作为第二语言来学。