English is fast becoming the language of science around the world,but what is its future among everyday speakers?One expert points out that the percentage(比率) of native English speakers is declining(降低) while the languages of other rapidly growing regions are being spoken by increasing numbers of people.But English will continue to remain widespread and important.
However,British language scholar David Graddol says English will probably drop in dominance (主導(dǎo)) by the middle of this century to rank,after Chinese,about equally with Arabic,Hindi,and Urdu."The number of people speaking English as a first language continues to rise,but it isn't rising nearly as fast as the numbers of many other languages around the world,simply because the main population group has been largely in the less developed countries where languages other than English have been spoken,"he says.
In a recent article in the journal Science,Mr.Graddol noted that three languages that are not near the top of the list of the most widely spoken now might be there soon.These are Bengali,Tamil,and Malay,spoken in south and Southeast Asia.
David Crystal,the author of the Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language,says about 1.5 billion of the world's six billion people speak it as a second language compared to the 400 million native speakers.But another expert on the English language says Mr.Graddol underestimates(低估) the future of its dominance."All the evidence suggests that the English language snowball is rolling down a hill and is getting faster, but nobody quite knows what's going to happen because no language has been in this position before."he said.
(1)In David Graddol's opinion,English will CC.
A.remain widespread and important
B.be more important than any other language
C.lose its dominant position
D.die away in the near future
(2)The underlined sentence in the last paragraph implies that AA.
A.more and more language users will choose English
B.the English language snowball is rolling down faster than any time in the past
C.English language will soon drop in dominance
D.snowballs will roll down faster than language balls
(3)How many experts does the passage mention who express their ideas about the future of English? BB
A.2
B.3
C.4
D.5
(4)What should be the best title for the passage? BB
A.English Remaining the Dominant Position
B.The Future of English?Who Knows
C.Opinions from Different Experts
D.The English Language Snowball Rolling Down.
【考點】傳統(tǒng)習(xí)俗與文化.
【答案】C;A;B;B
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