5. Housework has _________ been regarded as women’s work. (tradition)
V. Choose the word or phrase among A, B, C or D that best fits the blank space in the following passage.
Four hundred years ago, there were only about six million speakers of English in the world. Recent estimates (1)_____ that there are now over
300 million who use it as their mother tongue. This is, of course, largely due to its (2) _____ use in the USA.
However, globally native speakers are in the (3) ______ as perhaps as many as a billion more people use it as a foreign language.
In some countries such as Nigeria and Ghana it has the status of a (n) (4) _____ language. It was chosen so that none of the many different
languages belonging to different ethnic groups would be placed above the others. In India, English is an official language alongside Hindi and
no fewer than 3,000 English newspapers are published throughout the country.
All around the world, people are trying to learn English. In China 25 years ago everybody used to (5) _______ a copy of “The Thoughts of
Chairman Mao”. Nowadays it is an English course. In 1983 more than 100million people watched a course on Chinese TV made by the BBC
to teach the language at (6) _____ level.
People are (7) _______ to learn because it has become the main language of communication in diplomacy, business, tourism. It is also the
official language of air- traffic control and airports. Three- quarters of the world’s mail is (8) _______ in it as well as 80% of all information
(9) ________ in computers. Two thirds of all scientists write in English. A Japanese company wishing to negotiate with an Arab client would
(10) _____ its negotiation in English. A Columbian doctor reports that he spends as much time improving his English as he does studying
medicine.
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