Why must an international language necessarily be a made-up language? Why can't one of the existing languages be chosen (31)___?
In the United Nations, for example, (32)__- English, Chinese, Russian, French, and Spanish and at all official meetings simultaneous translation is carried on, (33)__ .If a delegate does not know at least one of these languages, (34)__ . How about making one of these into an international language? Of these, Chinese and Russian are not likely to gain many supporters (35)__ . The Russian alphabet stems from the Greek but is like that of very few other languages in the world today. The Chinese alphabet is not an alphabet at all. Its characters represent ideas, not sounds, and would therefore require someone to learn two separate languages the written and the spoken. The fact that (36)__ would make it a fine written international language, since each reader could apply the symbol to the appropriate word in his or her own language.
French was once the language of international diplomats, and a great many people involved in international relations had to learn French. But it has never been a language of science. Its spelling is difficult for foreigners and some of the sounds in French, (37)____ are hard for non-French speakers to master. Spanish comes off well in both spelling and pronunciation, (38)__ ,and there are almost no exceptions to those rules, but it is highly inflected and even adds such complications as having two different forms for the verb "to be," depending upon (39) __. In simplified form, (40)___ but no one has tried to promote Spanish as the international language. English, on the other hand, has been worked on for this purpose.
(From Bricks from the Tower of the Babel)
[A] because of the difficulties of their alphabets
(B] there are five official languages
[C] it might do very well
[D] being unlike those of other Latin-based languages
[E] if the language is a ell-constructed one
[F] as the best one to try to internationalize
[G] he or she must learn one
[H] for its rules are simple
[I] Chinese characters are associated with idea, not sound
[J] where each word stands alone
[K] so that it is possible to listen to the speeches in any one of the five languages
[L] whether the state of being is permanent or temporary
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What measures did the United States take to solve the monetary problem when the Revolutionary War was over?
The prince had waited until Cinderella came, then immediately took her by the hand, and danced only with her.[ (63) When others came and asked her to dance. with them he said, She is my dance partner."][(64) When evening came she wanted to leave and the prince followed her wanting to see into which house she went .]But she ran away from him and into the garden behind the house. [(65) A beautiful tall tree stood there. on which hung the most magnificent pears.] She climbed as nimbly as a squirrel into the branches, and the prince did not know where she had gone. He waited until her father came, then said to him. [(66) The unknown girl has eluded me and I believe she has climbed up the pear tree."]
The father thought, Could it be Cinderella? [(67) He had an ax brought to him and cut down the tree, but no one was in it.]When they came to the kitchen,
Cinderella was lying there in the ashes as usual, for she had jumped down from the other side of the tree, had taken the beautiful dress back to the bird in the hazel tree, and had put on her gray smock.
(From Cinderella)
Why did England keep money out of American colonies? And what was the result?
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