The number of speakers of English in Sha

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问题 The number of speakers of English in Shakespeare's time is estimated to have been about five million. Today it is estimated that some 260 million people speak it as a(an)  21  language, mainly in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. In addition to the standard varieties of English found in these areas,  22  are a great many regional and social varieties of the language as well as  23  levels of usage that are employed both in its spoken and written forms.  In fact, it is  24  to estimate the number of people in the world who have acquired an adequate working knowledge of English in addition to their own languages. The  25  for English learning and the situations in which such learning takes place are so varied that it is  26  to explain and still more difficult to judge  27  forms an adequate working knowledge for each situation.  The main reason for the widespread  28  for English is its present day importance as a world language. Besides  29  the indefinite needs of its native speakers, English is a language in which some of important works in science, technology, and other  30  are being produced, and not always by native speakers. It is widely used for  31  purposes as meteorological(气象的)and airport communications, international conferences, and the  32  of information over the radio and television networks of many  33 . It is a language of wider communication for a number of developing countries, specially former British colonies. Many of these countries have multi-lingual  34  and need a language for internal communication in such matters as government, commerce, industry, law and  35  as well as for international communication and for entrance to the scientific and technological developments in the West.____.A. variousB. similarC. familiarD. same

选项 A. various
B. similar
C. familiar
D. same

答案 A

解析 由前面的 varieties of the language提示,以及as well as应连接并列成分可知A项正确。
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