6 ________. The world's linguistic diversity is
steadily declining as ______
7 ______world languages (such as English) take over
and languages with less speakers begin to ________
8_ ______, or lose native
speakers.
Almost a quarter of the world's languages have less than a thousand remaining
speakers, and many linguists ______
9_ ______that at least 3,000 languages are
guaranteed to become ________
10 _______within the next century.
1. A native
B fluent
C bilingual D foreign
2. A population
B person
C speakers D foreigners
3. A disaster
B communication C extinction
D danger
4. A replaced
B carried out
C proposed
D prevented
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5. A current
B foreign
C native
D extinct
6 A danger
B extinction
C devastate
D devastation
7. A minor
B disastrous
C major
D native
8. A die out
B spread
C evolve
D destroy
9. A calculate
B estimate
C last
D migrate
10. A popular
B widespread
C native
D extinct