Упр.1 Exam Practise Юнит 1 Рабочая тетрадь New Millennium English 11 класс

Приведем выдержку из задания из учебника Казырбаева, Дворецкая 11 класс, Титул: 1 Fill in the gaps with the correct answer (A, B, C or D) from the box below. There are (1) fewer than 3,000 languages with more than a million native users. (2) More than 80% of the world’s languages exist in one country only. Some estimates show that linguistic (3) diversity is disappearing very fast. More than 50% of languages are (4) endangered. People might say: so what? It might be better for world peace if we all (5) had to speak major languages and understand each other. But it has taken centuries for people to (6) get knowledge about their environment. When people (7) lose their mother tongues, much of this knowledge also disappears, as the (8) dominant languages do not have this specific vocabulary. There are also a lot of statistics about the mental damage that forced assimilation (9) causes in education and other areas.
*Цитирирование части задания со ссылкой на учебник производится исключительно в учебных целях для лучшего понимания разбора решения задания.

There are fewer than 3,000 languages with more than a million native users. More than 80% of the world’s languages exist in one country only. Some estimates show that linguistic diversity is disappearing very fast. More than 50% of languages are endangered. People might say: so what? It might be better for world peace if we all had to speak major languages and understand each other. But it has taken centuries for people to get knowledge about their environment. When people lose their mother tongues, much of this knowledge also disappears, as the dominant languages do not have this specific vocabulary. There are also a lot of statistics about the mental damage that forced assimilation causes in education and other areas.