Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 31 to 35.
English has without a (31) ____ become the second language of Europe and the world. European countries which have most (32) ____ assimilated English into daily life are England's neighbors in Northern Europe: Ireland, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, and the rest of Scandinavia.
The situation is so (33) ____ that any visitor to the Netherlands will soon be aware of the pressure of English on daily life: television, radio and print bring it into every home and the schoolyard conversation of children; advertisers use it to (34) ____ up their message, journalists take refuge in it when their home-bred skills fail them. Increasingly one hears the (35) ____ that Dutch will give way to English as the national tongue within two or three generations.
Điền ô số 35
A. feeling
B. posture
C. judgment
D. view
Đáp án D
Giải thích: Sau "that" là mệnh đề “Dutch will give way to English as the national tongue within two or three generations” = Tiếng Hà Lan sẽ nhường đường cho tiếng Anh như ngôn ngữ quốc gia trong hai hay ba thế hệ tới.
Trong hai hay ba thế hệ tới là một sự dự đoán về tương lai. Sự việc đó mới chỉ là viễn cảnh, tầm nhìn, do đó phương án D. view (n) = cảnh tượng là phương án phù hợp nhất.
A. feeling (n) = cảm xúc
B. posture (n) = tư thế, điệu bộ
C. judgment (n) = lời phán xét, nhận xét