To show that English is interesting and 【小题1】 (create), the author uses many examples that show the crazy 【小题2】 (mad) of English.

For example, in fact, there is no egg in eggplant at all and there is no ham in a hamburger. Also, there is neither pine 【小题3】 apple in pineapple. While we can sculpt a sculpture and paint a painting, we take【小题4】 photo. And both“ in the car” and“ on the train” are used at the same time, though the ways one is seated are not similar. 【小题5】 (struggle) among all these usages, people may feel puzzled about why“carsick”   means“sick in a car”   while“homesick”   means“sick far away from home” . What’s more, it is not easy 【小题6】 (understand) why while“ hard”   is the【小题7】 (oppose) of“   soft” ,“hardly” and “softly”   are not an opposing pair. More examples are offered to show how mad English can be. When the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are 【小题8】 (visible). In addition, when one winds up his watch, it starts; but when one winds up a passage, it ends.

At last, he comes to the conclusion that the reason 【小题9】 English can be so mad is that it was invented by people, and that it【小题10】 (reflect) the creativity of the human race.

The national college entrance exam in Russia, Unified State Exam, will include Chinese as 【小题1】 elective foreign language starting from 2019. Chinese will become the fifth elective test item for the Unified State Exam 【小题2】 (follow) English, German, French and Spanish.

The number of Chinese learners in Russia 【小题3】 (grow) quickly in the past decade, according to a survey【小题4】 (carry) out by a linguistic research center in Russia.

Approaches to learning Chinese vary from person to person, 【小题5】 more and more people choosing university courses in Russia. The three-hour-long Chinese test will quiz students on 【小题6】 (they) listening, reading, and writing abilities and a fourth section will examine students on grammar, vocabulary and Chinese【小题7】(character). Some parts in the exam are even a little bit difficult for native Chinese speakers.

The United Nations (UN) in 2010 suggested a Chinese Language Day 【小题8】 falls on April 20 each year【小题9】 (celebrate) cultural diversity as well as to promote using all official languages【小题10】 (equal).

What is standard English? Is it spoken in Britain, the US, Canada, Australia, India and New Zealand? Believe it or not, there is no such thing as standard English. Many people believe the English spoken on TV 【小题1】 the radio is standard English. This is because in the early days of radio, those who 【小题2】(report) the news were expected to speak excellent English. However, on TV and the radio you will hear differences in the way people speak.

When people use words and 【小题3】(expression) different from the “standard language”, it is 【小题4】(call) a dialect. American English【小题5】(have) many dialects, especially the Midwestern, southern, African American and Spanish dialects. Even in some parts【小题6】 the USA, two people from neighboring towns speak a little 【小题7】(different). American English has so many dialects because people have come from all over the world. Geography also plays a part in 【小题8】 (make) dialects. Some people 【小题9】live in the mountains of the eastern USA speak with an older kind of English dialect. When Americans moved from one place to another, they took their dialects with 【小题10】(they).