英语阅读理解 改成语法填空

English is the most widely used language in the history of our planet. One in____1____seven human beings can speak it. More than half of the world’s books and three quarters of international mail are in English. Of all languages, English has the largest ___2____— perhaps as many as two million words.
However, let’s face it: English is a crazy language. There is no egg in an eggplant, neither pine ___3_____ apple in a pineapple and no ham in a hamburger. Sweet-meats are candy,________4_______sweetbreads, which aren’t sweet, are meat.
We take English for granted. But when we explore ____5_____ paradoxes (探讨它的矛盾), we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square, public bathrooms have no baths in them.
And why is ________6______a writer writes, but fingers don’t fing, grocers don’t groce, and hammers don’t ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, shouldn’t the plural of booth be beeth? One goose, two geese — so one moose, two meese?
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? How can overlook and oversee be opposites, while quite a lot and quite a few are alike? How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell the ____7______?
English was invented_____8_____people, not computers, and it reflects (反映) the creativity of human beings. That’s ______9_______, when stars are out, they are visible (能看见的); but when the lights are out, they are____10_____. And why, when I wind up my watch, I start it; but when I wind up this essay, I end it.追问谢谢 可不可以 排个 答案 有答案后 立即采纳

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