6 The most valuable part of Crystal s study is the section devoted to a speedy analysis of the cultural basis of this global reach， notably the influence of broadcasting， press， advertising， popular music and film. He is also up-to-date and informative in his identification of the World-Wide-Web as a powerful reinforcer of American cultural and linguistic dominance.
7. One of his most interesting passages concerns the role played by the League of Nations， and later the Untied Nations， in spreading English as an international language in the aftermath of the two world wars.
8. What does the future hold？ To this question， Crystal proposes the recognition of a new form of English-WSSE（world standard Spoken English）-which almost by definition rules out the possibility that English would fragment into mutually unintelligible language as Latin once did. “English， in some shape or form， will find itself in the service of the world community forever，” Crystal writes.
1. Paragraph 2____
2. Paragraph 3____
3. Paragraph 5____
4. Paragraph 6____
A The figure of English
B The speed of the spread of English
C The role played by culture and the net
D The role played by military expansion
E The role played by education
F The 2，000 years of English
5. The kind of English spoken 1，500 years ago was so different from the English we speak today____.
6. What impresses people most is not the interesting number of speakers of English found all over the world， ____ the language has spread in the past half century or so.
7. The two international organizations founded after the two world wars made their contributions____.
8. Crystal expresses the belief that in the future ____ will not happen to English.
A because of their similarity
B that we would not be able to understand it at all
C to the popularization of English as a world language
D the trend to become a global language
E what once happened to Latin
F but the speed with which
Keys： FBDCB FCE