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29.
(A)tunneled
(B) hampered
(C) dumped
(D) impeded) (c)All languages are works in progress. But English’s globalization, 30_ in the history of languages, will revolutionize it in ways we can only imagine. In the future, there could be a tri-English world, —31— in which you could speak a local English-based dialect at home, a national variety at work or school, and international Standard English to talk to foreigners. With native speakers a shrinking minority of the world’s Anglophones, there’s a growing sense that students should stop trying to _32 Brighton or Boston English, and embrace their own local versions. Researchers are starting to study non-native speakers' “mistakes”一“She look very sad, for example—as structured grammars. In a generation’s time, teachers might —33— be correcting students if they say “a book who” or “a person which.” A famous linguist asks why some Asians, who cannot articulate the “th” sound very —34—, should spend hours trying to say “thing” instead of “sing” or “ting”，International pilots, she points out, already pronounce the word “three” as “tree” in radio dispatches, —35_ “tree” is more widely comprehensible.