English in Europe

English has without a ______________ ( question    / doubt    / problem   / thought) become the second language of Europe and the world. European countries which have most 2) ______________  (successfully    / victorious    / successful    / lucrative) assimilated English into daily life are England's neighbours in Northern Europe: Ireland, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, and the 3)____________ ( rest    / additional    / remaining    / extra) of Scandanavia. 

The situation is so 4) ______________ ( plain    / open    / blatant    / marked) that any visitor to the Netherlands will soon be 5) ______  ( ignorant    / aware     / oblivious    / acquainted) of the pressure of English on daily life: television, radio and print 6) __________ ( guide    / bring    / shift    / haul)  it into every home and the schoolyard 7) _____________ ( conversation    / head-to-head    / consultation    / dialogue) of children; advertisers use it to 8) __________  ( life    / energy    / enthusiasm    / pep) up their message, journalists take refuge in it when their home-bred skills 9) ___________  ( succeed    / fall    / fail    / fizzle)  them. Increasingly one hears the 10) ______________ ( feeling    / posture    / judgement    / view ) that Dutch will give way to English as the national tongue within two or three generations ...

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1 doubt     2  successfully    3  rest    4 marked  5 aware   6 bring   7 conversation      8 pep    9 fail    10 view