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  February 21 is International Mother Language Day.The United Nations(联合国)n  1  (命名)it in 1999.The day aims to protect all languages around the world.In China, most people speak Chinese as their mother language.

  More people speak Chinese than any other language in the world.About one fifth of the world's population(人口)speaks a form of Chinese, the BBC r  2  .?

  The e  3   known written record of Chinese is the oracle bone script(甲骨文)of the Shang Dynasty(17th century BC-11th century BC).These are animal bones, especially tortoise shells(龟壳)with writing on them.Most Chinese characters are ideograms(表意文字)w  4   combine(组合)two or more words together to make a new one, for example, jia(家)means “a pig under the roof”.This shows that people in ancient(古代的)times t  5  (认为)of home as a place to hold treasures(财富).

  As time went on, hundreds of thousands of words developed.However, people only use a few thousand of them in everyday life.Today, new words are still being a  6  (补充)to the Chinese dictionary, such as dishi(的士)for taxis, xiu(秀)for TV shows and fangnu(房奴)meaning “slave to one's home”.

  With the fast d  7  (发展)of China's economy(经济), more people from other countries are taking i  8  (感兴趣)in Chinese.In a survey in the US last December, 2, 007 people were asked:“Which new foreign language would you learn? ” Chinese placed second, a  9   Spanish, with 15 percent of the vote.

  Confucius Institutes(孔子学院)around the world are more p  10   than ever.More than 300 colleges in over 90 countries have Confucius Institutes, USA Today reported.

阅读短文,将下列句子补充完整。
         Mr Turner lived in a town and worked in a post office. He wanted to travel in the capital but he couldn't.
His mother was often ill in bed and he had to spend a lot of money on her medicine. Luckily he won in a lottery
(彩票) and got a lot of money one day. He bought a car and decided to take his holiday in London with his wife. 
          It was Saturday and there were many cars on the roads. At a crossing a traffic accident happened and
several cars and buses were hit. They had to wait for a long time. When they got to the hospital, they were both
thirsty and hungry. They went to a restaurant and wanted to have something. But there were a lot of people in it.
They had to sit down to queue up. After a while a waiter came out and shouted, "Who's Mr Jenkins?"
          But nobody answered and the waiter had to leave. Mr Turner said to his wife,"I'm sure Mr Jenkins
ordered dinner here but he hasn't come. I'd better take his place by assuming (冒用) his name and will be able
to have dinner earlier."
        "That's a good idea!" said his wife.
         After a while the waiter came out and shouted again, "Who's Mr Jenkins, please?"
         Mr Jenkins came up to him and said, "It's Mr Jenkins here, sir. What's the matter?"
        "Wonderful!" the waiter called out happily. "Your family are waiting for you inside!"
1. Mr Turner u_____ to spend much money on his mother's medicine and couldn't a ____ to travel in capital.
2. Luckily he won in a lottery one day and became r_____. He bought a car and decided to make a t_____ to
    London with his wife.
3. Mr and Mrs. Turner felt thirsty and hungry b____ a traffic accident made them w____ long.
4. When they drove to a restaurant they found it f_____ of people and had to wait in l_____.
5. Mr Turner wanted to have dinner e_____ with his wife by assuming Mr Jenkins' name, but he f_____ to
    make it.

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