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In the near future, 1.5 billion people a quarter of the worlds population will speak English. For 1.1 billion, it
will be a second or third language. English is rapidly becoming a language for business, science and popular culture.
Three quarters of the worlds mail and 80% of the electronic mail on the Internet use English.
There arent linguistic reasons for this global dominance of English. The grammar is difficult, the pronunciation
eccentric, and the spelling peculiar. Maybe the reason is the flexibility of the English language which incorporates
words from more than 150 different languages.
As English spreads across Australia, Asia and Africa, it will invariably be transformed even subverted. Perhaps
English will fragment into different languages as Latin fragmented into French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and other
language 1.500 years ago.
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e) A language of inflexibility.
6) Em As English spreads across Australia a palavra across no pode ser substituda por:
a) Over.
b) All over.
c) Through.
d) Between.
e) Throughout.