6 The most valuable part of Crystal s study is the section devoted¹ to a speedy analysis of the cultural basis of this global reach， notably² the influence of broadcasting， press， advertising³， popular music and film. He is also up-to-date and informative⁴ in his identification of the World-Wide-Web as a powerful reinforcer of American cultural and linguistic⁵ dominance.
　　7. One of his most interesting passages concerns the role played by the League of Nations， and later the Untied⁶ Nations， in spreading English as an international language in the aftermath of the two world wars.
　　8. What does the future hold？ To this question， Crystal proposes the recognition of a new form of English-WSSE（world standard Spoken English）-which almost by definition rules out the possibility that English would fragment into mutually unintelligible⁷ language as Latin once did. “English， in some shape or form， will find itself in the service of the world community forever，” Crystal writes.
　　1. Paragraph 2____
　　2. Paragraph 3____
　　3. Paragraph 5____
　　4. Paragraph 6____
　　A The figure of English
　　B The speed of the spread of English
　　C The role played by culture and the net
　　D The role played by military expansion
　　E The role played by education
　　F The 2，000 years of English
　　5. The kind of English spoken 1，500 years ago was so different from the English we speak today____.
　　6. What impresses people most is not the interesting number of speakers of English found all over the world， ____ the language has spread in the past half century or so.
　　7. The two international organizations founded after the two world wars made their contributions____.
　　8. Crystal expresses the belief that in the future ____ will not happen to English.
　　A because of their similarity
　　B that we would not be able to understand it at all
　　C to the popularization of English as a world language
　　D the trend to become a global language
　　E what once happened to Latin
　　F but the speed with which
　　Keys： FBDCB FCE

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