Three factors contribute to the miraculous spread of English【C1】______ an international la

nguage: English usage in science, technology and commerce; the ability to【C2】______ vocabulary from other languages; and the acceptability of various English dialects.

In science, English【C3】______ German after World War Ⅱ With this technical and scientific dominance【C4】 ______ the beginning of overall dominance by the language,【C5】______ in Europe and then globally.

Today, the information【C6】______ has replaced the industrial age and has【C7】______ time and distance. This is transforming world economies from industrial production to information-based goods and services.【C8】______ geography and borders, the information revolution is reflecting our world. In less than twenty years, information processing,【C9】______ limited to the printed work, has given way to computers and the Internet. Computer-aided communication is closing the gap between spoken and written English. It encourages more【C10】______ conversational language and a tolerance for diversity and individual style.

English.【C11】______ many languages, uses a phonetic alphabet and fairly basic grammar. But most importantly, it has a large and extensive vocabulary,【C12】______ about 80~ is foreign. It has borrowed and continues to borrow words from Spanish and French, Hebrew and Arabic, Hindi Urdu and Bengali, Malay and Chinese,【C13】______ from languages from West Africa and Polynesia. This language characteristic makes it unique【C14】______ history. Finally,【C15】______ English language central authority guards the standards of the language; therefore, many【C16】______ have developed: American, British, Canadian, Indian, and Australian,【C17】______ a few. There is no standard pronunciation. But within this diversity is a【C18】______ of grammar and one set of core vocabulary.【C19】______ , each country that speaks the language can introduce【C20】______ of its own culture into the usage and vocabulary.

【C1】

A．as

B．like

C．as if

D．of