The English alphabet was created over a thousand years ago,and it has changed a lot over the centuries. It grew out of theRoman alphabet, and the Roman alphabet came from the Greek.The Greek origins of English can be seen from the word"alphabet." This word is made up of the first two letters of theGreek alphabet: "alpha" and "beta." Many other examplesdemonstrate the ancient and mixed origins of the Englishalphabet.   One of them is the letter w. You may have noticed that itsname - double-u - has more than one syllabe. This fact tells us theletter's origin. The letter w was first written as uu. In the eleventhcentury, these two letters came to be united and given sharperangles at the bottom to form the modern w.   Another letter with an interesting history is x. This letter wasfirst used by ancient people of Western Asia. Later, it was acquiredby the Greeks and used as the first letter of the Greek word for"Christ." This is why many people now write "Xmas" for"Christmas."   Today, about a hundred languages use letters from Englishalphabet. That is why English alphabet is the most widely used inthe world. With this popularity, it seems unlikely that the Englishalphabet will undergo any huge changes anytime soon. *alphabet字母 Greek希臘文 origim根源 ancient古老的angle角 syllable 音節 acquire 習得 popularity 普及unlikely不太可能 undergo 經歷
【題組】40.( ) What is the best title for this reading?
(A) How the English Alphabets were created
(B) The changes of English alphabets over centuries
(C) Some facts about the Enlgish alphabet
(D) The historical changes of the Greek