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  3. Three factors contribute to the miraculous spread of English【C1】______ an i

Three factors contribute to the miraculous spread of English【C1】______ an i

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问题      Three factors contribute to the miraculous spread of English【C1】______ an international language: English usage in science, technology and commerce; the ability to【C2】______ vocabulary from other languages; and the acceptability of various English dialects.
     In science, English【C3】______  German after World War Ⅱ With this technical and scientific dominance【C4】 ______ the beginning of overall dominance by the language,【C5】______ in Europe and then globally.
     Today, the information【C6】______ has replaced the industrial age and has【C7】______ time and distance. This is transforming world economies from industrial production to information-based goods and services.【C8】______ geography and borders, the information revolution is reflecting our world. In less than twenty years, information processing,【C9】______  limited to the printed work, has given way to computers and the Internet. Computer-aided communication is closing the gap between spoken and written English.  It encourages more【C10】______  conversational language and a tolerance for diversity and individual style.
     English.【C11】______ many languages, uses a phonetic alphabet and fairly basic grammar. But most importantly, it has a large and extensive vocabulary,【C12】______   about 80~ is foreign.  It has borrowed and continues to borrow words from Spanish and French, Hebrew and Arabic, Hindi Urdu and Bengali, Malay and Chinese,【C13】______ from languages from West Africa and Polynesia.  This language characteristic makes it unique【C14】______ history. Finally,【C15】______   English language central authority guards the standards of the language; therefore, many【C16】______ have developed: American, British, Canadian, Indian, and Australian,【C17】______ a few. There is no standard pronunciation. But within this diversity is a【C18】______ of grammar and one set of core vocabulary.【C19】______ , each country that speaks the language can introduce【C20】______ of its own culture into the usage and vocabulary. [br] 【C9】
选项 A、former
B、once
C、latter
D、later
答案 B
解析 此题考查篇章理解。once意为“曾经、一度”，表示时间上在先的，D项later不符合题意，而former和 latter表示上文提到过的前者、后者，显然也不符合题意。
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