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English as a Foreign Language Who taught you to speak English? Your parents, while you were a young child? Your teachers at

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问题                           English as a Foreign Language
    Who taught you to speak English? Your parents, while you were a young child? Your teachers at school? Perhaps even the BBC as a grown-up. Whoever it was, somehow you have developed an understanding of what is rapidly becoming a truly global language.     There are now about 376 million people who speak English as their first language, and about the same number who have learnt it in addition to their mother tongue. There are said to be one billion people learning English now and about 80% of the information on the Internet is in English.
    Is this a good thing, or a bad thing? Should we celebrate the fact that more and more of us can communicate, using a common language, across countries and cultures (文化)? Or should we worry about the dangers of "mono-culturalism", a world in which we all speak the same language, eat the same food and listen to the same music?
    Does it matter if an increasing number of people speak the same language? On the contrary (相反), I would have thought—although I have never accepted the argument that if only we all understood each other better, there would be fewer wars. Ask the people of India (where many of them speak at least some English) and Pakistan (the same situation with India)…
    If we all speak English, will we then all start eating McDonalds hamburgers? Surely not. If English becomes more dominant(占主导地位的) ,will it kill other languages? I doubt it. When I travel in Africa or Asia, I am always surprised by how many people can speak not only their own language but often one or more other related languages, as well as English and perhaps some French or German as well.
    When we discussed this on Talking Point a couple of years ago, we received a wonderfully poetic email from a listener in Ireland. "The English language is a beautiful language. Maybe it’s like a rose," he said. "But who would ever want their garden just full of roses?"
    Well, I love roses, and I think they make a beautiful addition to any garden. But the way I see it, just by planting a few roses, you don’t necessarily need to pull out everything else. If more and more people want to plant English roses, that’s fine by me.
The author would probably agree that______.
选项 A、it’s very hard to plant many kinds of flowers in a garden
B、it’s good for people from other countries to learn English
C、more and more people like to plant roses in their gardens
D、English is easier to learn than other languages
答案B
解析 这道题问作者可能会同意A、B、C、D中哪一种说法。可以先排除选项A和选项C，因为这篇文章讨论的并不是种玫瑰的问题，作者只是在文中把英语比喻成玫瑰。在最后一段中，作者说I think they make a beautiful addition to any garden“我认为对任何花园来说玫瑰花都会为它们增色”，意思是说人们学英语是件好事。全文最后一句是If more and more people want to plant English roses，that’s fine by me.“如果越来越多的人想种英国玫瑰(意即想学英语)，我认为没有什么不妥。”由此断定，B选项it’s good for people from other countries to learn English是作者可能会同意的说法。
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