问题详情：
请认真阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
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.考查名词 句意:虽然他的普通话远不够标准,清华师生们都为他的努力喝*rt努力.故选C. 2.考查动词句意:它是否会取代英语成为*通用语言?replace取代;替代.故选A. 3.考查形容词 普通话为母语的人数已经超过了任何语言 most最多.故选B. 4.考查动词 而且,*可能很快超过美国成为全球最大的经济体通过;超过.故选D. 5.考查动词 学中文在美国和世界各地不断升温y学习.故选C. 6.考查动词 句意:甚至有为数不多但数量却不断增长的美国父母把孩子送到双语的中文浸入式教学学校送.故选C. 7.考查连词 莱昂尼•克莱门茨(Leianne Clements)和*并无文化关联,但她的孩子们正在华盛顿特区的育婴公立特许学校学习中文.此处表转折,故用but.故选A. 8.考查名词克莱门茨女士认为,懂中文会给她的孩子提供一种竞争优势ntage优势.故选A. 9.考查名词根据句意:杜贝认为,中文将变得越来越重要,对那些想在*工作或做生意的人来说尤其如此为介词,后跟名词rtance重要*.故选D. 10.考查动词 句意:随着*的崛起,你可以预见更多人会采用中文t采取.故选B. 11.考查名词句意:我不这么认为.这一幕肯定不会在我的有生之年发生,也可能不会在未来三四十年就发生 my lifetime 在我的有生之年.故选D. 12.考查名词 句意:杜贝表示,美国流行文化是英语作为一门外语得到普及的原因之一.故选B. 13. 考查形容词 句意:美国电影、音乐、电视和视频游戏有着广泛的受众.故选A. 14.考查形容词 句意:到目前为止*在这一领域的成功非常有限ted有限的.故选C. 15.考查动词 句意:安德烈斯•马丁内斯(Andres Martinez)是亚利桑那州立大学的教授.他说他尊重*文化,并预计中文会增长ect尊重.故选D. 16.考查动词 句意:但他说英语不像中文,跟英语相关连的不仅仅是一个国家,使得它仍将是全球通用语言 connected with与…相连/联系.故选C. 17.考查形容词 句意:美国外交事务所估计,让英语母语者达到中文*流利水平需要2200小时ve本国的;本土的.故选A. 18.考查形容词句意:与荷兰语、法语、西班牙语达到同等水平相比,中文所花费的时间要长4倍.表时间长,应用long.故选B. 19.考查连词 句意:然而中文语法要简单得多,中文的声调和书写体系对*学习者来说更难掌握e然而;而.故选D. 20.考查名词 句意:对于大多数美国人、英国人和澳大利亚人来说,学习外语是一种选择而不是必要.故选B.
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