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原文:es only when a failure municate has major concequences, such as strikes, lost orders, legal problems, or fatal accidents-even, at times, war.
Q14 Language problems e to the attention of public when they have___ such as fatal accidents or social problems.
原文:In the English-speaking scientific world, for example, surveys of books and documents consulted in libraries and other information agencies have shown that very little foreign language material is ever consulted.
Q15 Evidence of the extent of the language barrier has been gained from___ of materials used by scientists such as books and periodicals.
原文:British industry, in particular, has in recent decades often been criticized for its linguistic insularity for its assumption that foreign buyers will be happy municate in English, and that awareness of other languages is not therefore a priority. In the 1960s, over two-thirds of British firms dealing with non-English-speaking customers were using English for outgoing correspondence; many had their sales literature only in English…
Q16 An example of British linguistic insularity is the use of English for materials such as___
原文:The changes in awareness have been most marked in English-speaking countries where the realization has gradually dawned that by no means everyone in the world knows English well enough to negotiate in it. This is especially a problem when English is not an official language of public administration, as in most parts of the Far East, Russia, Eastern Europe, the Arab world, Latin America and French-speaking Africa.
Q17 An example of a part of the world where people may have difficulty in negotiating English is___.
1. Climate change is a legitimate worry. Although still riddled with uncertainties, the science of climate change is ing firmer: put too much carbon in the atmosphere and you might end up cooking the earth, with possibly catastrophic results. But here again, switching immediately to nuclear power is not t