The number of speakers of English in Sha

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问题 The number of speakers of English in Shakespeare's time is estimated to have been about five million. Today it is estimated that some 260 million people speak it as a(an) 　21　 language, mainly in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. In addition to the standard varieties of English found in these areas, 　22　 are a great many regional and social varieties of the language as well as 　23　 levels of usage that are employed both in its spoken and written forms.　　In fact, it is 　24　 to estimate the number of people in the world who have acquired an adequate working knowledge of English in addition to their own languages. The 　25　 for English learning and the situations in which such learning takes place are so varied that it is 　26　 to explain and still more difficult to judge 　27　 forms an adequate working knowledge for each situation.　　The main reason for the widespread 　28　 for English is its present day importance as a world language. Besides 　29　 the indefinite needs of its native speakers, English is a language in which some of important works in science, technology, and other 　30　 are being produced, and not always by native speakers. It is widely used for 　31　 purposes as meteorological(气象的)and airport communications, international conferences, and the 　32　 of information over the radio and television networks of many 　33　. It is a language of wider communication for a number of developing countries, specially former British colonies. Many of these countries have multi-lingual 　34　 and need a language for internal communication in such matters as government, commerce, industry, law and 　35　 as well as for international communication and for entrance to the scientific and technological developments in the West.____.A. simpleB． naturalC． practicalD． difficult

选项 A. simple
B． natural
C． practical
D． difficult

答案 D

解析该空后面的still more difficult就是提示。

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