According to the passage, all of the following contributed to the spread of English around the world except.

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Over the past 600 years, English has grown from a language of few speakers to become the dominant language of international communication. English as we know it today emerged around 1350, after having incorporated many elements of French that were introduced following the Norman invasion of 1066. Until the 1600s, English was, for the most part, spoken only in England and had not extended even as far as two centuries, English began to spread around the globe as a result of exploration, trade (including slave trade), colonization, and missionary work. Thus, small enclaves of English speakers became established and grew in various parts of the world. As these communities proliferated, English gradually became the primary language of international business, banking and diplomacy.

Currently, about 80 percent of the information stored on computer systems worldwide is English. Two - thirds of the world’s science writing is in English, and English is the main language of technology, advertising, media, international airports, and air traffic controllers - Today there are more than 700 million English users in the world, and over half of these are nonnative speakers, constituting the largest number of nonnative users than any other language in the world.

What is the main topic of this passage?

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Today our (23) __________ of food and what it does for our bodies is far more advanced than that of the ancient. Now we know (24) __________ vitamins and how each kind of vitamins helps in the growth of a particular part of our bodies. There are on the market all kinds of vitamin pills one can take to make up for one's lack of certain important things (25) __________  are needed for normal health. Of course, if we eat well and properly, the food that we eat will take care of our bodies without these pills. Just take vitamin pills if our doctor tells us that our bodies are short of something that (26) __________ by them. Generally speaking, everything that we eat does some good to our bodies, but if we eat too much of one kind of food and pay no (27) __________  to others, we may have too much of one kind of chemical substance and not enough of others. Then, we may be in trouble. Therefore the best advice about what to eat is that we should eat all kinds of food but never too much.

Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.

He resembles his father in many ways.

Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct response to each of the following exchanges

Mr. West Hello. Can I help you? - Emma                   

Last week, we spent an                    day at my uncle's farm.

Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the following question.

It is important today that students should learn one or two                     languages.

Mrs. Adams was surprise that her son and his friend had gone to the mountains to ski.

Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of primary stress in each of the following questions.

Write new sentences as similar as possible in meaning to the original sentences, using the given words in brackets. Do not change the given words in any way.

An experienced tailor can complete a kimono in a single day. (completed)

Finish the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first one, beginning with the given words.

He wanted to know whether I understood what she meant.

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     Space is a dangerous place, not only because of meteors but also because of rays from the sun and other stars. The atmosphere again acts as our protective blanket on earth. Light gets through, and this is essential for plants to make the food which we eat. Heat, too, makes our environment endurable. Various kinds of rays come through the air from outer space, but enormous quantities of radiation from the sun are screened off. As soon as men leave the atmosphere, they are exposed to this radiation but their spacesuits or the walls of their spacecraft, if they are inside, do prevent a lot of radiation damage.

     Radiation is the greatest known danger to explorers in space. The unit of radiation is called “rem”. Scientists have reason to think that a man can put up with far more radiation than 0.1 rem without being damaged; the figure of 60 rems has been agreed on. The trouble is that it is extremely difficult to be sure about radiation damage - a person may feel perfectly well, but the cells of his or her sex organs may be damaged, and this will not be discovered until the birth of deformed children or even grandchildren.

     Missions of the Apollo flights have had to cross belts of high radiation, and during the outward and return journeys, the Apollo crew accumulated a large amount of rems. So far, no dangerous amounts of radiation have been reported, but the Apollo missions have been quite short. We simply do not know yet how men are going to get on when they spend weeks and months outside the protection of the atmosphere, working in a space laboratory. Drugs might help to decrease the damage done by radiation, but no really effective ones have been found so far.

According to the first paragraph, the atmosphere is essential to man in that_______.

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     If you would like to go to a beautiful, faraway place, you should choose the Hawaiian Islands. Located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, in 1959 the islands (23) _______ the 50th state of the U.S. Of all the Hawaiian islands, Kauai may be the best place for vacation as it is called a tropical (24) _______. With increasing tourist attraction, its population is getting higher especially in hot seasons. Because thick green rainforests cover the island, the air makes your skin soft and smooth. There is (25) _______air pollution here, and no stress. The beaches of Kauai are large part of its beauty; they are all lovely, clean, white sand. If you want to meet colourful undersea (26) _______you may take a short course for diving. You need an enrolment to get training from professional divers. They also make wide explanations (27) _______ the characteristics of the Ocean. As soon as you make a decision, reserve your place, buy your ticket and say goodbye to your stressful city!

The livelihood of each species in the vast and intricate assemblage of living things depends on the existence of other organisms.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.

Unluckily the main tourist attraction was lost when the small town was burned down in an accidental fire.