Despite the rise in importance of major regional languages such as Chinese, Arabic or Spanish, to ever think that the development of English can now be stopped seems totally unrealistic.
56. _______ for our teachers, we’d never have been able to enter this university.
15. Some of the doctors are paid almost ______ as the nurses.
14. ______ I’m well again, I can go on with my work.
13. The club women gathered ______ clothes for people in the tsunami-hit countries.
12. We can’t continue to pretend that the problem of homelessness doesn’t ______ in this city.