SECTION 4. READING IX. Read the following passage, then choose the letter (A, B, C, D) that best fits

ENGLISH IN EUROPE
English has without a ___(1)___…… become the second language of Europe and the world. European countries which have most ___(2)___……. Assimilated English into daily life are England’s neighbours in Northern Europe: Ireland, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, and the ___(3)___…… Scandanavia.
The situation is so ___(4)___….. that any visitor to the Netherlands will soon be ___(5)___….. of the pressure of English on daily life: television, radio and print ___(6)___…… it into every home and the schoolyard ___(7)___…… of children; advertisers use it to ___(8)___…… up their message, journalists take refuge in it when their home-bred skills ___(9)___….. them. Increasingly one hears the ___(10)___…… that Dutch will give way to English as the national tougue within two or three generations……….