[单项选择]People can do nothing about pollution.


A. Right.
B. Wrong.
C. Doesn’t say.

[单项选择]There arc about 260 million people who can speak _________.


A. English in its regional variety
B. English in its standard variety
C. English as a second language
D. English as a working language

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India has about a billion people and a dozen major languages of its own. One language, and only one, is understood-by the elite- across the country: that of the foreigners who ruled India for less than 200 years and left 52 years ago.
Today, India. Tomorrow, unofficially, the world. That is well under way; at first, because the British not only built global empire but also it was settled by America, and now because the world (and notably America) has acquired its first truly global--and interactive--medium, the Internet.
It is estimated that some 350 million people speak English as their first language. Maybe 250 - 350 million do or can use it as a second language; in excolonial countries, notably, or in English--majority ones, like 30 million recently immigrants to the United States, or Canada’s 6 million francophone Quebeckers. And elsewhere.’ The guess is 100 million--1 billion depending how you define "can". Let us b
A. there are not many audiences
B. all the audiences know that foreign language
C. the audiences don' t like it very much
D. the language spoken on-screen is English

[单项选择]I can' t give you that for nothing, what do you take me ______


A. up
B. for
C. to
D. after

[单项选择]Why do people in England often talk about the weather


A. Because they may have four seasons in one day.
B. Because they often have very good weather.
C. Because the weather is warm just like in spring.

[单项选择]Some people think（）about their rights than they do about their responsibilities.
A. so much
B. too much
C. much more
D. much too

[单项选择]The government can't do anything about unemployment because it's too ______ with trying to keep prices down.


A. taken over
B. taken after
C. taken in
D. taken up

[单项选择]In Black English people say "I won't do nothing" instead of "I won't do anything". This is an instance of ______ dialect.


A. regional
B. social
C. standard
D. temporal

[单项选择]The foreign minister would reveal nothing about his recent tour of the Middle East beyond what had already been announced at the press conference.


A. as for
B. in addition to
C. along with
D. in relation to

[单项选择]Since she knew nothing about a foreign language, she was ______ by the menu at the restaurant and did not know how to' order.
A. bewildered
B. shaken
C. annoyed
D. stunned

[单项选择]Young people today can't really choose what they should buy because they ________.

[单项选择]What did people think about Jimmy

[单项选择]When did she have time but nothing to write about

[单项选择]According to the passage, what people need to do is to______.

[单项选择]There was clearly nothing left to do but sit down on the shabby little couch and weep.______.


A. Did so Della
B. So did Della
C. Della so did
D. So Della did