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 non-native users than any other language in the world..

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions

What is the main topic of this passage?

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• What can be the best title of the reading passage?

• The word it refers to___________.

• What does the word magni stand for?

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• The word “employers” in the passage refers to ..............

• What is the meaning of “waterproof” in the second paragraph?

• The word “informally” in this context mostly refers to an education occurring ...................

• The word “assessing” in paragraph 2 could best be replaced by ...........

• The main subject of the passage is_________.

• It can be inferred from the passage that a soil sample with little or no clay in it ______.

• In the author’s judgment ................

• The best way to protect children from improper material is .............

• When Business Week published “ The Portable Executive “, it implied that___________.

• Which of the following is the author‟s main point?

• The word "fascinating" in the second paragraph could be replaced by ...............

• It can be inferred from the passage that in 1952, Carson’s book Under the Sea Wind .............

• Which of the following is the best title for the passage?

• The “pounds” in the second paragraph are probably_______.

• What is the topic of the passage?

• The three phases of memory discussed in the pasage are differentiated according to .....

• According to the passage, agriculture could ____.