Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 26 to 30. In our connected globalised world, the languages (26) _______ dominate communications and business, Mandarin, Hindi, English, Spanish and Russian amongst others, are placing small languages spoken in remote places under increasing pressure. Fewer and fewer people speak languages such as Liki, Taushiro and Dumi as their ...

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 26 to 30.

In our connected globalised world, the languages (26) _______ dominate communications and business, Mandarin, Hindi, English, Spanish and Russian amongst others, are placing small languages spoken in remote places under increasing pressure. Fewer and fewer people speak languages such as Liki, Taushiro and Dumi as their children (27) _______ away from the language of their ancestors towards languages which promise education, success and the chance of a better life. While to (28) _______ parents this may appear a reasonable choice, giving their offspring the opportunity to achieve the sort of (29) _______ they see on television, the children themselves often lose touch with their roots. (30)_______, in many places the more reasonable option of bilingualism, where children learn to speak both a local and a national language, is being promoted. This gives hope that many endangered languages will survive, allowing people to combine their links to local tradition with access to wider world culture.

(Adapted from Cambridge English Complete Advanced)

In our connected globalised world, the languages (26) _______ dominate communications and business,