Упражнение 2 Unit 2 Тест рабочей тетради
ГДЗ English Михеева 8 класс - ответы

2 Read the text and complete it with the words from the box.
a) but to the whole world b) use it c) now there are
d) was very good and e) slowly develops
Universal Language
Ludovic Zamenhof (1859—1917) was a doctor and lived in Poland which at that time was part of Russian Empire. Zamenhof’s education 1 d) was very good and e) slowly develops he spoke a few languages. A quiet
and good-hearted man, Zamenhof thought that people who lived in different countries of the world could not understand each other because they spoke different languages. How wonderful, he thought, if everyone could learn just one language and 2 b) use it Zamenhof was thinking of the international language. Latin was such a language in the Middle Ages: all educated people could speak it. Some people have said, and still say, that people cannot invent1 a language. A language 3 e) slowly develops when people use it. Ludovic Zamenhof knew this but he also knew that there must be a language that will belong not to one nation 4 a) but to the whole world. So in 1887, he told people about his own artificial language Esperanto.
This language was easier to learn than any real language
Even 5 c) now there are some people who speak and use Esperanto.
But English at the beginning of the 21st century is taking it place becoming a global language.