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Standard English is the variety of English which is usually used in print and which is normally taught in schools and to non-nat

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问题     Standard English is the variety of English which is usually used in print and which is normally taught in schools and to non-native speakers learning the language. It is also the variety which is normally (1)_____ by educated people and used in news broadcasts and other (2)_____ situations. The difference between standard and nonstandard, it should be noted, has (3)_____ in principle to do with differences between formal and colloquial (4)_____; standard English has colloquial as well as formal variants.
     (5)_____, the standard variety of English is based on the London (6)_____ of English that developed after the Norman Conquest resulted in the removal of the Court from Winchester to London. This dialect became the one (7)_____ by the educated, and it was developed and promoted (8)_____ a model, or norm, for wider and wider segments of society. It was also the (9)_____ that was carried overseas, but not one unaffected by such export. Today, (10)_____ English is arranged to the extent that the grammar and vocabulary of English are (11)_____ the same everywhere in the world where English is used; (12)_____ among local standards is really quite minor, (13)_____ the Singapore, South Africa, and Irish varieties are really very (14)_____ different from one another so far as grammar and vocabulary are (15)_____.Indeed, Standard English is so powerful that it exerts a tremendous (16)_____ on all local varieties, to the extent that many of long-established dialects of England have (17)_____ much of their vigor and there is considerable pressure on them to be (18)_____. This latter situation is not unique (19)_____ English: it is also true in other countries where processes of standardization are (20)_____.But it sometimes creates problems for speakers who try to strike some kind of compromise between local norms and national, even supranational ones.

选项 A、to
B、in
C、as
D、for
答案C
解析 此题属于语法题。as表示"成为"，根据句子意思：这种方言逐渐发展，成为了一种标准，故选项as正确。其他选项均不符合题意。全句可译为：伦敦方言得到了那些受过教育的人的青睐。对于社会上越来越多的人来说，它已经发展成为一种标准。
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