A. ATTRACTION B. ACTION C. VISION D. ATTENTIONIX. READ THE FOLLOWI...

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A. attraction

B. action

C. vision

D. attention

IX. Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the

correct answer to each of the questions.

Over the past 600 years, English has grown from a language of few speakers to

become the dominant language of international communication. English as we know it

today emerged around 1350, after having incorporated many elements of French that

were introduced following the Norman invasion of 1066. Until the 1600s, English was,

for the most part, spoken only in England and had not extended even as far as two

centuries, English began to spread around the globe as a result of exploration, trade

(including slave trade), colonization, and missionary work. Thus, small enclaves of

English speakers became established and grew in various parts of the world. As these

communities proliferated, English gradually became the primary language of

international business, banking and diplomacy.

Currently, about 80 percent of the information stored on computer systems worldwide

is English. Two - thirds of the world’s science writing is in English, and English is the

main language of technology, advertising, media, international airports, and air traffic

controllers - Today there are more than 700 million English users in the world, and over

half of these are nonnative speakers, constituting the largest number of nonnative users

than any other language in the world.