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根据下面资料，回答题 English and English Community
There is no denying that English is a useful language. The people who speak English today make up the 31 speech community in the world with the exception of speakers of Chinese. Originally they were small tribes of people from northern Europe who 32 in England. Their languages became more and more 33 to each other. Finally, the language had enough uniformity to be used by all speakers in England. The people were united into a speech community through their shared language.
Speech community is similar to other kinds of 34. The people who make up the community share common language. Often they live side by side, as they do in a neighborhood, a village, or a city. More often they form a whole country. National boundaries, however, are not always the same as the
boundaries of a speech community. A speech community is any group of people who 35 the same language no matter where they happen to live.
We may say that anyone who speaks English 36 to the English speech community. For convenience, we may classify the speakers into two groups: one in which the speakers use English as their native language, the other in which the speakers learn English as a second language for the 37 of education, commerce, and so on.
English serves as an alternative language in several areas of public activity for most nations in the wor ld which employ it as an 38 second language. English has been adopted as the language of air traffic, commerce, as well as international diplomacy. Moreover, English is the 39 of the majority of published materials in the world so that education has come to rely 40 on an understanding of English.
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