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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg recently surprised Chinese students when he spoke to them in Chinese. In a talk at Tsinghua University in Beijing, Zuckerberg spoke Chinese for about 30 minutes. Although his Mandarin was far from perfect, students and faculty cheered his     1     .

Zuckerberg’s talk raises a large question: is Chinese the language of the future? Could it     2     English as the world’s international language? Mandarin Chinese already has the     3     native speakers of any language. And, China may soon     4     the United States as the world’s largest economy.

The     5     of the Chinese language is increasing in the United States and around the world. A small but growing number of American parents are even     6     their children to bilingual Chinese immersion schools. Leianne Clements has no cultural connection to China,     7     her children are learning Chinese at the Yu Ying Public Charter School in Washington D.C. Ms. Clements thinks knowing Chinese could give her children a competitive     8     .

Clayton Dube, head of the U.S.-China Institute at the University of Southern California, thinks Chinese will grow in     9     , especially for people who want to work and do business in China. “As China rises you can expect that more people will     10     the language. But is China going to replace English? I don’t think so—certainly not in my     11     , probably not in the next two, three, four generations.”

Dube says American pop culture is one reason for English’s     12     as a foreign language. “American movies, music, television, video games have     13     audiences ... So far China’s success in this field has been very      14     . Chinese films, Chinese television shows, Chinese music doesn’t have a huge following outside of China.”

Andres Martinez, a professor at Arizona State University, says that he     15     Chinese culture and expects the language to grow. But he says English, unlike Chinese, is not just     16     with one country, and will remain the global language.

Chinese is also a more difficult language to learn. The U.S. Foreign Service Institute estimates it would take a     17     English speaker 2,200 hours to reach professional fluency in Chinese. That is four times     18     than it would take to reach the same level in Dutch, French, or Spanish.     19     Chinese grammar is much simpler, Chinese has a tone and writing system that is more difficult for adult learners to master.

A recent survey by Gallup showed that only one in four Americans is able to speak more than one language. For most Americans, Brits, and Australians, learning a foreign language is a(n)     20     , not a necessary thing.

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1.C; 2.A; 3.B; 4.D; 5.C; 6.C; 7.A; 8.A; 9.D; 10.B;

11.D; 12.B; 13.A; 14.C; 15.D; 16.C; 17.A; 18.B; 19.D; 20.B 解析：1.考查名詞    句意:雖然他的普通話遠不夠標準,清華師生們都爲他的努力喝*rt努力.故選C. 2.考查動詞句意:它是否會取代英語成爲*通用語言?replace取代;替代.故選A. 3.考查形容詞    普通話爲母語的人數已經超過了任何語言 most最多.故選B. 4.考查動詞   而且,*可能很快超過美國成爲全球最大的經濟體透過;超過.故選D. 5.考查動詞   學中文在美國和世界各地不斷升溫y學習.故選C. 6.考查動詞   句意:甚至有爲數不多但數量卻不斷增長的美國父母把孩子送到雙語的中文浸入式教學學校送.故選C. 7.考查連詞   萊昂尼•克萊門茨(Leianne Clements)和*並無文化關聯,但她的孩子們正在華盛頓特區的育嬰公立特許學校學習中文.此處錶轉折,故用but.故選A. 8.考查名詞克萊門茨女士認爲,懂中文會給她的孩子提供一種競爭優勢ntage優勢.故選A. 9.考查名詞根據句意:杜貝認爲,中文將變得越來越重要,對那些想在*工作或做生意的人來說尤其如此爲介詞,後跟名詞rtance重要*.故選D. 10.考查動詞    句意:隨着*的崛起,你可以預見更多人會採用中文t採取.故選B. 11.考查名詞句意:我不這麼認爲.這一幕肯定不會在我的有生之年發生,也可能不會在未來三四十年就發生 my lifetime 在我的有生之年.故選D. 12.考查名詞   句意:杜貝表示,美國流行文化是英語作爲一門外語得到普及的原因之一.故選B. 13. 考查形容詞   句意:美國電影、音樂、電視和視頻遊戲有着廣泛的受衆.故選A. 14.考查形容詞   句意:到目前爲止*在這一領域的成功非常有限ted有限的.故選C. 15.考查動詞   句意:安德烈斯•馬丁內斯(Andres Martinez)是亞利桑那州立大學的教授.他說他尊重*文化,並預計中文會增長ect尊重.故選D. 16.考查動詞   句意:但他說英語不像中文,跟英語相關連的不僅僅是一個國家,使得它仍將是全球通用語言 connected with與…相連/聯繫.故選C. 17.考查形容詞   句意:美國外交事務所估計,讓英語母語者達到中文*流利水平需要2200小時ve本國的;本土的.故選A. 18.考查形容詞句意:與荷蘭語、法語、西班牙語達到同等水平相比,中文所花費的時間要長4倍.表時間長,應用long.故選B. 19.考查連詞   句意:然而中文語法要簡單得多,中文的聲調和書寫體系對*學習者來說更難掌握e然而;而.故選D. 20.考查名詞   句意:對於大多數美國人、英國人和澳大利亞人來說,學習外語是一種選擇而不是必要.故選B.

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