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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.
【C9】
选项 A、former
B、once
C、latter
D、later
答案B
解析 此题考查篇章理解。once意为“曾经、一度”，表示时间上在先的，D项later不符合题意，而former和 latter表示上文提到过的前者、后者，显然也不符合题意。
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