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【单选题】36（） A second language opens the door to the world-wide sharing of skills and discoveries in science, engineering and medicine. (From English World-wide) A. and supplied to radio stations in 120 count...
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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.
【单选题】Passage 5 Questions 21-25 are based on the following passage. Ever since humans have inhabited the earth, they have made use of various forms of communication. Generally, this expression of thoughts a...
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Body language transmits ideas or thoughts more quickly.
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Body language transmits ideas or thoughts more accurately.
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Nonlinguistic language is more expressive than verbalization.
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Nonlinguistic language also expresses human thoughts and feelings.
【单选题】诚然，西方是人类很多文明成就的展示台，有一些价值观是人类壮举的注脚，如对科学实验的信仰，向假说挑战的意志。但对实践这些价值的迷信会导致一种特有的盲目；无法理解某些夹杂在其中的价值可能是有害的。但要看清这一点，人们必须站在西方之外，所谓“当局者迷，旁观者清”。这说明：
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西方的价值观已走到尽头
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西方的价值观比其它文明的价值观优越
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只有从非西方文明的价值及观点出发，才能真正认清西方价值观的问题之所在
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非西方价值观比西方价值观优越