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  3. Standard English is the variety of English which is usually used in print and which is normally taught in schools and to non-nat

Standard English is the variety of English which is usually used in print and which is normally taught in schools and to non-nat

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问题     Standard English is the variety of English which is usually used in print and which is normally taught in schools and to non-native speakers learning the language. It is also the variety which is normally  【21】______ by educated people and used in news broadcasts and other  【22】______ situations. The difference between standard and nonstandard, it should be noted, has  【23】______ in principle to do with differences between formal and colloquial  【24】______ ; standard English has colloquial as well as formal variants.
      【25】______ , the standard variety of English is based on the London  【26】______ of English that developed after the Norman Conquest resulted in the removal of the Court from Winchester to London. This dialect became the one  【27】______ by the educated, and it was developed and promoted  【28】______ a model, or norm, for wider and wider segments of society. It was also the  【29】______ that was carried overseas, but not one unaffected by such export. Today,  【30】______ English is arranged to the extent that the grammar and vocabulary of English are  【31】______ the same everywhere in the world where English is used;  【32】______ among local standards is really quite minor,  【33】______ the Singapore, South Africa, and Irish varieties are really very  【34】______ different from one another so far as grammar and vocabulary are  【35】______ . Indeed, Standard English is so powerful that it exerts a tremendous  【36】______ on all local varieties, to the extent that many of long-established dialects of England have  【37】______ much of their vigor and there is considerable pressure on them to be  【38】______ . This  【39】______ situation is not unique to English: it is also true in other countries where processes of standardization are  【40】______ . But it sometimes creates problems for speakers who try to strike some kind of compromise between local norms and national, even supernational ones.
选项 A、said
B、told
C、talked
D、spoken
答案D
解析 考查动词用法。由前文可知这里的variety指的是语言的种类，而说某种语言只能用speak，不能用其他三项。
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