(accurate) This information has to be altered if it is ______ or likely to cause damage or distress.

all the cars stopped and made way for him

the police were busy clearing the way of traffic

it was such fun to get out of the traffic confusion in Germany

he could cross the border into Austria in the shortest possible time

Braille.

Signal flags.

Body language.

Gestures.

作为员工，要勇于随时指出领导工作中存在的错误

作为领导．要虚心接受来自下属的批评

员工与领导之间．相互批评有助于公司的发展

不敢批评领导的员工不是好员工

English is now the international language for airline pilots, scientists, medical experts, businessmen and many others. Consequently, more and more people are learning it. The BBC’s English teaching programs are broadcast daily to four continents (31) ______. Films and video are on the air or used in institutions in over 100 countries. All this helps to add more speakers to the estimated 100 million (32) ______. The rush to learn English has reached even China. The main reason for the upsurge (上升) in interest is (33) ______. Unlike many other widely used languages, English can be correctly used in a very simple form with less than one thousand words and (34) ______. This was pointed out in the 1920’s by two Cambridge scholars, Ogden and Richards, (35) ______. Another reason for the popularity of English is that English-speaking countries are spread throughout the world. An estimated 310 million people in Britain, the U.S.A., Canada, Australia, South Africa, etc. (36) ______. Also in former British colonial areas in Africa and Asia (37) ______, no common language has been found which would make a suitable substitute for English. In Delhi, although nationalists would prefer to phase out (逐步停止) the use of English, the man from South India finds English more acceptable than Hindi, (38) ______. Turning from India to Africa, a similar problem exists. However reluctant African nations are to use English and, as it were, subject themselves to a kind of "cultural imperialism", there seems to be no alternative language which will do the job of communication effectively. The view (39) ______. Some teachers who have returned from overseas consider it creates a wider gap between those who are educated (40) ______. Nevertheless, in many parts of the world, the technical and scientific knowledge needed to develop a country’s resources and improve people’s living conditions, is just not available in the mother tongue.