IN THE FUTURE, MANY BUILDING WILL BE ...BY SOLAR ENERGY. HOTPART E

5. In the future, many building will be ...by solar energy. hot

Part E: READING (15pts)

I. Read the passage below and choose the best option to fill in the blanks (10pts)

English has for more than a century and …….(1) half …….(2) called a word

language. The number of people who speak it ……(3) their mother tongue has been

estimated at between three hundred million and four hundre million. It is recognized as an

………(4) language in countries ………. (5) 1.5 billion people live in. In China, the

importance attached to ……… (6) English was spoken by just under five million people.

The …….. (8) of English on North American was the …….. (9) in it worldwide

expansion. The United States is a huge commercial market and this has tended to promote

the English language in many other nations. About 80% of the data stored on the world’s

computers …….(10) believed to be in English and nowadays insuffcient knowledge of

English can be a problem in busines.