【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[听力原文]
Many people think the English do not like to speak other languages. In fact, English is a mixture of words from many different languages. Because of this, the vocabulary of the English language is very large. It is much larger than almost every other language in the world.
Many English words come from Latin and Greek. Because these two languages are dead, the words have most often come through other languages such as French, or the old German languages.
Many common English words come from other places, like "tea" from China, and "banana" from West Africa. One reason that the English language has so many words from other languages is that people from many different countries have come to live in Britain.
2000 years ago the Romans came from Italy, and stayed for over 400 years. After they left, the Angles, Saxons and Jutes came from the northern part of modern Germany. In the ninth and tenth centuries Scandinavians came into the northern and eastern parts of the country. Finally, in the eleventh century William of Normandy came from France, and became King of England. With him came French civilization and the French language.
What can we learn about the English language?
[解析] 比较处设题。短文中提到，英语的词汇量非常大，并且几乎比世上任何语言的词汇量都要大。由此可知，英语几乎是世界上词汇量最大的语言，A是对原文的同义转述，故为答案。