[单选题]三、Ⅲ. Cloze ( 30 points)
A根据以下材料，回答21-35题Thenumber of speakers of English in Shakespeare′s time is estimated to have beenabout five million. Today it is estimated that some 260 million people speak itas a (an) 21 language, mainlyin the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, South Africa, AustraliaNew Zealand. In addition to the standard varieties of English found inthese areas,22 are a greatmany regional social varieties of the language as well as 23 levels of usage that are employedboth in its spoken written forms. In fact, it is 24 to estimate the numberof people in the world who have acquired an adequate working knowledge ofEnglish in addition to their own languages. The 25 for English learningthe situations in which such learning takes place are so varied that itis 26 to explain still moredifficult to judge 27 forms an adequateworking knowledge for each situation. The main reason forthe widespread 28 for English is its present dayimportance as a world language. Besides 29 the indefinite needs of its nativespeakers, English is a language in which some of important works inscience,technology,other 30 are beingproduced,not always by native speakers. It is widely used for 31 purposes as meteorological( 气象的)airport communications,international conferences,the 32 of information over the radio andtelevision networks of many 33. It is a language of widercommunication for a number of developing countries, specially former Britishcolonies. Many of these countries have multilingual 34. need a language for internalcommunication in such matters as government, commerce, industry,, law 35 as well as for internationalcommunication for entrance to the scientific techno- logicaldevelopments in the West.[单选题] 第21题答案是（ ）A.foreign
Bnative
Csecond
Dofficial
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根据紧接着的国家名称的提示可知是指将英语作为母语的人数
