In the popular mind, the Internet is the realization of the global village,

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问题 In the popular mind, the Internet is the realization of the global village, where the flow of information and ideas is unimpeded by distance or national barriers. Much has been written【C1】________the technology and the benefits that this system of unregulated information exchange will bring. But【C2】________has been very little discussion about the languages—human, not computer languages【C3】________are being used on the Internet.
Central【C4】________the ideology of the emerging Internet community is the freedom of the individual users to express【C5】________as they like. Nevertheless, 【C6】________recently, it has been very difficult to communicate through the Internet in any language【C7】________could not be expressed in the standard English alphabet as defined【C8】________the American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII).
English is already the premier【C9】________of science and technology worldwide. The peculiar restriction of【C10】________able to communicate with only the limited ASCII character set has worked to further encourage the【C11】________English, especially by those【C12】________native language is not normally expressed in some version of【C13】________Roman alphabet
In fact, it seems to be typical that【C14】________accessing a network in a non-English speaking country【C15】________is often presented with a choice of the local language(s) or English. Many of the national networks that have now linked【C16】________to the Internet are used【C17】________scientific and technical communication, 【C18】________a rapidly growing portion of the Internet’s community are non-professional people.
Familiarity with English may be assumed【C19】________a linguist or a physicist, but growing【C20】________of users with no English language skills are joining the net in spite of the dominance of English in message forums and mail lists. Messages on the Usenet newsgroups are overwhelmingly written in English, and the bulk of the moderated mailing lists (including the Linguist Discussion List, and international e-mail discussion list for linguists) are conducted in English. [br] 【C9】

选项 A、vehicle
B、language
C、means
D、instrument

答案 B

解析本句结构为English is…，而英语本质是一门语言，故画线部分填language合适。而且根据句意“英语已经成为世界范围科技领域主要语言了”，不是强调英语成为主要技术工具了，而是科技例如代码本质上还是英语，故排除vehicle“工具，媒介”、means“方法，手段”和instrument“器具，工具”。

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