文档介绍：2016-2017学年甘肃省平凉市静宁一中高二(下)期末英语试卷
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With the Chinese language growing in popularity,the UK government plans to invest(投资) 10million pounds to help more kids learn Mandarin(普通话).Do you think it is necessary for the UK pupils to learn Mandarin?Some people share their opinions online.
Ted(UK):The learning of any language can be valuable and rewarding,but it is not suitable for is a difficult language to learn and the UK has a poor reputation for teaching foreign should they learn Chinese when most people in the world speak English?
Mark(US):I studied French for 2years in high school and German for 4years in studied Mandarin informally for about 4months before moving to I speak Mandarin every day as my wife doesn't speak it is far from being additional languages is a great thing,which offers a different perspective on the world around ,it's almost necessary to be able to speak more than just your native tongue.
e (UK):No,unless they're taught from a very early stage of is so China really is going to dominate the world,it'll have to do so by speaking the world's dominant language---English.
Sam (UK):I don't think Chinese will e as widely spoken throughout the world as Engl