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.
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选项 A、as
B、like
C、as if
D、look as if

答案B

解析 结构衔接题。此处like意为“像……一样”,即英语和其他许多语言一样是字母语言。踢虽然也有“正如……”之义,但一般都用于“正如某人所说、所见,所想等等”语境之下,且通常后接一个句子。
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