The road to modern english

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Unit 2 English around the World
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The Road to Modern English
At the end of the 16th century, about five to seven million people speak English. ________________________ (几乎所有这些人)lived in England. In the next century, ____________________________________________(英国人开始向世界各地迁移) so English ___________________________ (开始被说)in many other countries. Today, more people speak English as their first, second or foreign language_________________(相比以住任何时候). China may have the largest n________ of English speakers.
Native English speakers can understand each other even if they don’t speak the same kind of English. _________, they may not be able to understand everything. For example, a British person may say to her friends, “Would you please come up to my flat for a visit?” One of her American friends may then ask her, “Come up where?” Her Canadian friend might explain, “She _________ we should come up to her apartment.”
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