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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.
【C7】
选项 A、abbreviated
B、cut
C、abridged
D、compressed
答案D
解析 动词语义题。compress意为“压缩”；abbreviate意为“缩写”；cut意为“剪、切”；abridge则意为“删节”，本句中“信息时代缩短了时间和距离”，用compress一词最为准确。
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