高中英语新课标人教版(广东)高一(1)unit2 workbook

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billion¹ people. Unlike² many other countries, our people speak a lot of languages⁴. So we use English, which we got⁵ from British⁶ rulers hundreds of years ago. Of course⁷, we have our own⁸ way of using English.
S2:
Well, I live on a huge⁹ green island in western¹⁰ Europe¹¹. Hundreds of years ago, my people spoke¹² a very different language³ from English. Then the British rulers came¹³. Now the old language is spoken¹⁴ in only a few¹⁵ villages in the western part¹⁶ of my country.
S3:
My country has more than 7,000 islands. Some of them are very large but most of them are quite small. Hundreds of years ago, the Spanish¹⁷ rulers chnged the way we live. Much later¹⁸, the American rulers taught¹⁹ their own kind of English in our school. Nowdays, we speak a kind of English that borrows²⁰ words from American English but is mostly²¹ our wewn.
S4:
My country is very small. In fact²², it's really a city. It is in southeast²³ Asia²⁴ and is very rich. People come from all over Asia to do business²⁵ here. Today, you can hear our kind of English spoken everywhere in the city and on many ships that come here.