English has without a (21) ____ become the second language of Europe and the world. European countries which have most (22) ____ assimilated English into daily life are England's neighbors in Northern Europe: Ireland, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, and the rest of Scandinavia. The situation is so (23) ____ that any visitor to the Netherlands will soon be aware of the pressure of English on daily life: television, radio and print bring it into every home and the schoolyard conversation of ...

English has without a (21) ____ become the second language of Europe and the world. European countries which have most (22) ____ assimilated English into daily life are England's neighbors in Northern Europe: Ireland, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, and the rest of Scandinavia.

The situation is so (23) ____ that any visitor to the Netherlands will soon be aware of the pressure of English on daily life: television, radio and print bring it into every home and the schoolyard conversation of children; advertisers use it to (24) ____ up their message, journalists take refuge in it when their home-bred skills fail them. Increasingly one hears the (25) ____ that Dutch will give way to English as the national tongue within two or three generations.