Unit 2 Language-Reading测试（1）
一、双基提要
To the west and off the European Continent, there are several thousands of island on the continental shelf(大陆架). They are generally called the British Isles( 大不列颠岛). Of all the isles, the largest one is called the Great Britain. The name Great Britain was not applied to this large area island until the 17th century, its southern part adopted the name England in the 5th century when groups of invaders fro Northern Europe, traditionally called the Angles, Saxons and Jutes, were taking possessing of this area. Their language, the English language, spread far and
