2008年专八真题
PART I
SECTION A MINI-LECTURE（7/7）
Pop music in English can be heard on many radios,thus many people who are not English speakers can sing words from their favorite English medium songs.And many people who are regular cinema-goers or TV viewers can frequently hear English in subtitle films coming out of the USA.Now, to sum up in today’s lecture,we have reviewed some of the reasons or factors that lie behind the popular use of English as the No. 1 world language. Before we finish, I'd like to leave a few questions for you to think about.Is the status of English as the No. 1 world language a sure in the future?Will it split into varieties that become less mutually intelligible? Or will some other language or languages take the place of English as world language in future?These questions are not easy to answer, I know.But they are definitely worth pondering over after the lecture. Ok, this brings to the end of today’s lecture. Thank you for your attention.