Question

[Lê Quỳnh Anh]

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 following questions.

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 off 1066. Until the 1600s, English was, for the most part, spoken only in England and had not expanded even as far as Wales, Scotland, or Ireland. However, during the course of the next two century, 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 in English. Two thirds of the world's science writing is in English, and English is the main language of technology, advertising, media, international airport, and air traffic controllers. Today there are more than 700 million English users in the world, and over half of these are non-native speakers, constituting the largest number of non-native users than any other language in the world.

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

A. the slave trade

B. the Norman invasion 

C. missionaries

D. colonization 

Answer 1

[Dương Hoàn Anh]

B

Theo đoạn văn, tất cả những điều sau đây đã đóng góp vào sự lan rộng của tiếng Anh trên khắp thế giới ngoài_________.

A. Buôn bán nô lệ

B. sự xâm lược của Norman

C. các nhà truyền giáo

D. thuộc địa

Dẫn chứng: English began to spread around the globe as a result of exploration, trade (including slave trade), colonization, and missionary work

Tạm dịch: tiếng Anh bắt đầu lan rộng trên toàn cầu do kết quả của việc thăm dò, buôn bán (bao gồm buôn bán nô lệ), thuộc địa và công việc truyền giáo.

=> Đáp án B