精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上The Road to Modern English（At the end of the 16th century, about five to seven million people spoke English. 16世纪末期大约有5百万到7百万人说英语。Nearly all of them lived in England. 几乎所有这些人都生活在英格兰。Later in the next century, people from England made voyages to conquer other parts of the world and because of that, English began to be spoken in many other countries. 后来，在17世纪英国人开始航海征服了世界其它地区，于是，许多别的国家开始说英语了。Today, more people speak English as their first, second or a foreign langua
