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V READING COMPREHENSION.
1. Read the passage and choose the best answer A, B, C or D.
Modern English is the (1)
of the English language (2)
the great vowel shift, completed in roughly 1550
Despite some (3)
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in vocabulary texts from the (4)
ceintury, such as the works of William Shakespeare and the King James Bible, are
considered to be in Modern English, or more specifically, are referred to as using
Early Modern English
According to Ethnologue, there are (5)
English as a first or (6)
508 million speakers of
language as of 1999, a number dwarfed only by
the Chinese language (7) tenu of the number of speakers. However,
Chinese has a smaller geographical range and is spoken primarily in mainland
China and Taiwan and also by a sizable immigrant commanity in North
America (8) English is spoken in a vast number of territories including the
United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, the United States of America, Australia, New
Zealand, India, Pakistan, and Southern Africa. Its large number of speakers, plus
its worldwide presence, have made English a (9) language for use in such
diverse applications as controlling airplanes, developing software, conducting
international diplomacy, and business (10)
1. A way
3. A differences
4 A 1000
5.
A. on
6 A second
7. A.00
& A. Contrary
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B. form
C. Toad
C sold
B. speak
B. difference
C. variety
B. early
C. premature
B over
C. beyond
B. twice
Ctwo
B. in
C with
B.On contrary C. In contrary
D. shape
D. spoken
D. unlikelihood
D. earlier
D. above
D. secondly
D. for
D. With contrary