Within EU primary education, a clear majority of pupils choose tostudy Engl

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问题     Within EU primary education, a clear majority of pupils choose to
study English like a foreign language. Indeed, learning English is mandatory in(1)______
several countries within secondary education institutions, and so the number of(2)______
Member States have close to 100% of pupils learn this language already in(3)______
primary education. The highest shares of primary education pupils studying
English in 2009 were recorded in Italy, Spain, Austria and Greece, with
more than nine out of every ten children studying English in every of these(4)______
countries(which was also the case in Norway and Croatia). The related(5)______
importance of English as a foreign language may be further magnified
because pupils tend to receive more instruction in their first foreign language
as they do for any subsequent languages they choose to study.(6)______
    The central and eastern European Member States that joined in the EU(7)______
in 2004 and 2007 are in a particular position with regard in language(8)______
teaching, as learning Russian was compulsory for many pupils in the past.
This situation has changed rapidly and these days most pupils have more
choice concerning the language(s)they wish to study. In most of these
countries there has been a marked increase in the proportion of pupils
learning English, often above 40% of all students and in Bulgaria,
Lithuania, Poland and Estonia over 65%. Luxembourg is also of particular
interest, insofar there are three official languages, with(9)______
more pupils receiving instruction in Luxembourgish, German and French at(10)______
primary level; English is introduced at secondaryschool. [br] (2)

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答案 the→a

解析 冠词错误。a number of意思是“大量的”,谓语用复数;the number of意思是“……的数目”,谓语用单数。亦从后面谓语have为复数形式可知,此处表示的意思是“大量的成员国”,而非“成员国的数目”,故将the改为a。
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