2008年专八真题
PART I
SECTION A MINI-LECTURE（1/7）
Good morning, every one.Today’s lecture is about the popularity of English. As we all know, English is widely used in the world.Although English is not the language，with the largest number of native or first language speakers,it has really become a lingua franca. Then what is a lingua franca?The term refers to a language which is widely adopted， for communication between two speakers whose native languages are different from each other’s, and where one or both speakers are using it as a second language. For example, when an Indian talks to a Singaporean using English,then English is the lingua franca.Then actually how many people speak English，as either a first or a second language?