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  3. Three factors contribute to the miraculous spread of English 【C1】______ an international language: English usage in science, te

Three factors contribute to the miraculous spread of English 【C1】______ an international language: English usage in science, te

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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.
【C12】
选项 A、in which
B、of which
C、in that
D、of that
答案B
解析 结构衔接题。此处是非限定性定语从句，因此C  、D  两项可以首先排除，若将其先行词补全，我们不难得出这个句子：80％ of its vocabulary is foreign．因此B  为答案。
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