¡¡¡¡The potential bonanza (source of wealth) on offer from outsourcing means even maths and science are being taught in English at secondary schools in Malaysia.But demand for English teaching would drop as children progress through academia,and more universities across the world choose to teach in the language.

¡¡¡¡Mr.Graddol also estimated that the boom would be over by 2050.¡°Englishª²language students will be down from two billion to 500 million then,¡±he said,¡°Increasingly,as English spread across the globe,more people will become bilingual,even multiª²lingual and such skills are highly prized in business.But Britain has not got the best reputation for learning other languages.¡±

¡¡¡¡The report also showed that English was not the only language spreading,and the world,far from being dominated by English,was to become more multiª²lingual.Mr.Graddol said,¡°Chinese,Arabic and Spanish are all popular,and likely to be languages of the future.¡±26. It is estimated that in a decade English will be

¡¡¡¡£ÛA£Ý actively studied by over 200 million people.

¡¡¡¡£ÛB£Ý freely spoken by global English learners.

¡¡¡¡£ÛC£Ý popular with over 80% of world inhabitants.

¡¡¡¡£ÛD£Ý really mastered by 50% of people worldwide.

¡¡¡¡27. According to the text,¡°linguistic globalization¡± will

¡¡¡¡£ÛA£Ý eliminate French from the globe.

¡¡¡¡£ÛB£Ý defeat other European languages.

¡¡¡¡£ÛC£Ý fail all languages except English.

¡¡¡¡£ÛD£Ý make English the biggest winner.

¡¡¡¡28. David Graddol predicts that the thriving period of English will

¡¡¡¡£ÛA£Ý terminate within half a century.

¡¡¡¡£ÛB£Ý climax in the middle of the century.

¡¡¡¡£ÛC£Ý endure for no less than five decades.

¡¡¡¡£ÛD£Ý quit till the beginning of the 2050s.

¡¡¡¡29. The report ¡°The Future of English¡± factored in all of the following EXCEPT

¡¡¡¡£ÛA£Ý the educational condition and policy.

¡¡¡¡£ÛB£Ý the directions and designs of Unesco.

¡¡¡¡£ÛC£Ý the statistics about population.

¡¡¡¡£ÛD£Ý the movements of overseas students.

¡¡¡¡30. The writer of the report deems that outsourcing is to

¡¡¡¡£ÛA£Ý result in the increase of English subjects.

¡¡¡¡£ÛB£Ý lead to the drop of interest in English study.

¡¡¡¡£ÛC£Ý account for the further spread of English.

¡¡¡¡£ÛD£Ý bring about transition in college curricula.

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¡¡¡¡In both developed and developing nations, governments finance, produce, and distribute various goods and services. In recent years, the range of goods provided by the government has extended broadly, including many goods that do not meet the economic purist¬ðs definition of ¡°public goods¡±. As the size of the public sector has increased steadily, there has been a growing concern about the effectiveness of the public sector¬ðs performance as producer.

¡¡¡¡Critics argue that the public provision of certain goods is inefficient and have proposed that the private sector should replace many current public sector activities, that is, these services should be privatized. Since 1980s, greater privatization efforts have been pursued in the United States.

¡¡¡¡Concurrent with this trend has been a strong endorsement(support) by international bilateral donor(aid) agencies for heavier reliance on the private sector in developing countries. The underlying claim is that the private sector can improve the quality of outputs and deliver goods more quickly and less expensively than the public sector in these countries.

¡¡¡¡This claim, however, has mixed theoretical support and little empirical verification in the Third World. The political, institutional, and economic environments of developing nations are markedly different from those of developed countries. It is not clear that the theories and empirical evidence that claim to justify privatization in developed countries are applicable to developing nations. Often policy makers in developing nations do not have sufficient information to design effective policy shifts to increase efficiency of providing goods through private initiatives. Additionally, there is a lack of basic understanding about what policy variables need to be altered to attain desired outcomes of privatization in developing countries.

¡¡¡¡One study of privatization in Honduras examined the policy shift from ¡°direct administration¡± to ¡°contracting out¡± for three construction activities: urban upgrading for housing projects, rural primary schools, and rural roads. It tested key hypotheses applying to the effectiveness of privatization, focusing on three aspects: cost, time, and quality.

¡¡¡¡The main finding was that contracting out in Honduras did not lead to the common expectations of its proponents because institutional barriers and limited competitiveness in the marketplace have prevented private contractors from improving quality and reducing the time and cost required for construction.