题型专项训练三阅读理解(含任务型阅读)题型一选择型阅读理解AAs an English,I can speak three languages—English,German and French,so do you thinkthe British people are very good language learners?The fact is that they aren’t.Some statistics(数据) from the survey done by the European Commission(欧盟委员会)showed that 62% of the British people only speak English.38% speak at least one foreignlanguage and 18% speak two or more.Compared with the British people,56% of the people inother European countries speak at least one foreign language and 28% speak two or more.Fromthis you can see that the British people are famous for not speaking foreign languagesand that they are not good language learners in Europe.And the survey also showed that English is the most widely-spoken foreign language.ManyEuropean people can have a conversation in English.That’s why my people don’t think itis necessary to learn a foreign language.In Britain,students are not required to learn a foreign language.That means learninga foreign language is only an option at school.In UK schools it is common for childrento start learning a foreign language at11 and many ofthem give it up at 14.So whydon’tstudents continue learning foreign languages at school?Because they think it is moredifficult to get good marks in languages than in other subjects such as science or history.To solve this situation,the British government is looking for different ways to improvelanguage learning at school.One way is to start learning it at a much younger age.Anotherone is to give school children more choices.Changing the British attitude(态度) to learning foreign languages may be a hard taskbut the government decides to try!1.Which country does the writer come from?A.Americ...
