English and English Community There is no denying that English is a useful language. The people who speak English today make

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问题                                                 English and English Community
    There is no denying that English is a useful language. The people who speak English today make up the【B1】________ speech community in the world with the exception of speakers of Chinese. Originally they were small tribes of people from northern Europe who【B2】________ in England. Their languages became more and more【B3】________ to each other. Finally, the language had enough uniformity to be used by all speakers in England. The people were united into a speech community through their shared language.
    Speech community is similar to other kinds of【B4】________ The people who make up the community share common language. Often they live side by side, as they do in a neighborhood, a village, or a city. More often they form a whole country. National boundaries, however, are not always the same as the boundaries of a speech community. A speech community is any group of people who【B5】________ the same language no matter where they happen to live.
    We may say that anyone who speaks English【B6】________ to the English speech community. For convenience, we may classify the speakers into two groups; one in which the speakers use English as their native language, the other in which the speakers learn English as a second language for the【B7】________of education, commerce, and so on.
    English serves as an alternative language in several areas of public activity for most nations in the world which employ it as an【B8】________ second language. English has been adopted as the language of air traffic, commerce, as well as international diplomacy. Moreover, English is the【B9】________ of the majority of published materials in the world so that education has come to rely【B10】________ on an understanding of English.
    A. international     B. native             C. speak
    D. belongs           E. purpose            F. language
    G. communities       H. settled            I. similar
    J. same              K. heavily            L. largest
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答案D

解析 此处需要填一个动词作谓语。备选单词中的动词只剩下belongs,belong to属于固定搭配,意思是“属于”。belongs非常适合此处语境:可以这么说,讲英语的人都属于英语语言社区,因此此题应选D。  
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