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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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    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
【B10】
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答案K
解析 此句不缺少句子成分，因此此处需要填一个副词修饰动词词组rely on。备选单词中只有一个副词heavily。heavily也非常适合此处语境：教育已非常依靠对英语的掌握，因此此题选K。
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