If you’re going to travel in England and wish to be _31__ there, don’t try to speak English perfectly, __32_ if you do so, no one will understand you. In London ninety-nine in every hundred people speak _33__ English. You may say that _34__ they don’t speak English well themselves, they can _35__ understand it when it is well spoken. They can when the _36__ is English. But when the speaker is a _37__, the better he speaks, the __38__ it is to understand him.
No foreigner can _39__ stress (重读) the syllables (音节) and make the tone _40__ and fall in question and __41__ exactly as a __42__ does. __43__ the first thing you have to do is to speak with a strong __44__ accent, and speak broken English, that is, English without any__45__. Then every English person you __46__ will at once know you’re a foreigner, and be ready to __47__ you. He will not __48__ you to be polite and use grammar. He will be __49__ by his cleverness in understanding your _50__ and being able to tell what you want to know.
31. A. settled | B. heard | C. understood | D. known |
32. A. because | B. unless | C. whatever | D. however |
33. A. American | B. bad | C. standard | D. no |
34.A. when | B. since | C. as if | D. even if |
35.A. hardly | B. really | C. at least | D. at most |
36.A. reader | B. speaker | C. teacher | D. lawyer |
37.A. foreigner | B. stranger | C. Londoner | D. teacher |
38.A. better | B. easier | C. harder | D. clearer |
39.A. never | B. even | C. ever | D. only |
40.A. right | B. exact | C. raise | D. rise |
41.A. request | B. answer | C. command | D. settle |
42.A. native | B. foreigner | C. child | D. reporter |
43.A. While | B. Although | C. Because | D. Therefore |
44.A. London | B. British | C. foreign | D. country |
45.A. grammar | B. mistake | C. expression | D. word |
46.A. know | B. see | C. look for | D. speak with |
47.A. welcome | B. help | C. teach | D. praise |
48.A. expect | B. direct | C. show | D. think |
49.A. strict | B. surprised | C. happy | D. praised |
50.A. way | B. meaning | C. hobby | D. country |
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