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• Solution for One Who Hopes
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• Passage
• Questions
• Answers with Explanations

Solution for One Who Hopes 

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Answer Table 

14. V	18. I	22. B	26. YES
15. VIII	19. II	23. YES
16. III	20. C	24. NO
17. VI	21. D	25. NOT GIVEN

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One Who Hopes

1. Language lovers, just like music lovers, enjoy variety. For the latter there's Mozart, The Rolling Stones and Beyonce. For the former there's English, French, Swahili, Urdu... the list is endless. But what about those poor overworked students who find learning difficult, confusing languages a drudge? Wouldn't it put a smile on their faces if there were just one simple, easy-to-learn tongue that would cut their study time by years? Well, of course, it exists. It's called Esperanto, and it's been around for more than 120 years. Esperanto is the most widely spoken artificially constructed international language. The name derives from Doktoro Esperanto, the pseudonym under which L. L. Zamenhof first published his Unua Libro in 1887. The phrase itself means 'one who hopes'. Zamenhof's goal was to create an easy and flexible language as a universal second language to promote peace and international understanding.
2. Zamenhof, after ten years of developing his brainchild from the late 1870s to the early 1880s, had the first Esperanto grammar published in Warsaw in July 1887. The number of speakers grew rapidly over the next few decades, at first primarily in the Russian empire and Eastern Europe, then in Western Europe and the Americas, China, and Japan. In the early years, speakers of Esperanto kept in contact primarily through correspondence and periodicals, but since 1905 world congresses have been held on five continents every year except during the two World Wars. Latest estimates for the numbers of Esperanto speakers are around 2 million. Put in percentage terms, that's about 0.03% of the world's population - no staggering figure, comparatively speaking. One reason is that Esperanto has no official status in any country, but it is an optional subject on the curriculum of several state education systems. It is widely estimated that it can be learned in anywhere between a quarter to a twentieth of the time required for other languages.
3. As a constructed language, Esperanto is not genealogically related to any ethnic language. Whilst it is described as 'a language lexically predominantly Romanic', the phonology, grammar, vocabulary, and semantics are based on the western Indo-European languages. For those of us who are not naturally predisposed to tucking languages under our belts, it is an easy language to learn. It has 5 vowels and 23 consonants. It has one simple way of conjugating all of its verbs. Words are often made from many other roots, making the number of words which one must memorise much smaller. The language is phonetic, and the rules of pronunciation are very simple, so that everyone knows how to pronounce a written word and vice-versa, and word order follows a standard, logical pattern. Through prefixing and suffixing, Esperanto makes it easy to identify words as nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, direct objects and so on, by means of easy-to-spot endings. All this makes for easy language learning. What's more, several research studies demonstrate that studying Esperanto before another foreign language speeds up and improves the learning of the other language. This is presumably because learning subsequent foreign languages is easier than learning one's first, while the use of a grammatically simple and culturally flexible language like Esperanto softens the blow of learning one's first foreign language. In one study, a group of European high school students studied Esperanto for one year, then French for three years, and ended up with a significantly better command of French than a control group who had studied French for all four years.
4. Needless to say, the language has Its critics. Some point to the Eastern European features of the language as being harsh and difficult to pronounce, and argue that Esperanto has an artificial feel to it, without the flow of a natural tongue, and that by nature of its artificiality, it is impossible to become emotionally involved with the language. Others cite its lack of cultural history, indigenous literature - "no one has ever written a novel straight into Esperanto" - together with its minimal vocabulary and its inability to express all the necessary philosophical, emotional and psychological concepts.
5. The champions of Esperanto - Esperantists - disagree. They claim that it is a language in which a great body of world literature has appeared in translation: in poetry, novels, literary journals, and, to rebut the accusation that it is not a 'real' language, point out that it is frequently used at international meetings which draw hundreds and thousands of participants. Moreover, on an international scale, it is most useful - and fair - for neutral communication. That means that communication through Esperanto does not give advantages to the members of any particular people or culture, but provides an ethos of equality of rights, tolerance and true internationalism.
6. Esperantists further claim that Esperanto has the potential - were it universally taught for a year or two throughout the world - to empower ordinary people to communicate effectively worldwide on a scale that far exceeds that which is attainable today by only the most linguistically brilliant among us. It offers the opportunity to improve communication in business, diplomacy, scholarship and other fields so that those who speak many different native languages will be able to participate fluently in international conferences and chat comfortably with each other after the formal presentations are made. Nowadays that privilege is often restricted to native speakers of English and those who have special talents and opportunities for learning English as a foreign language.
7. What Esperanto does offer in concrete terms is the potential of saving billions of dollars which are now being spent on translators and interpreters, billions which would be freed up to serve the purposes of governments and organisations that spend so much of their resources to change words from one language into the words of others. Take, for example, the enormously costly conferences, meetings and documentation involved in the European Union parliamentary and administrative procedures - all funded, essentially, by tax payers. And instead of the World Health Organisation, and all NGOs for that matter, devoting enormous sums to provide interpreters and translations, they would be able to devote those huge amounts of money to improving the health of stricken populations throughout the world.

Questions

Questions 14-19

Reading Passage has seven paragraphs, A - G.
Choose the correct heading for paragraphs B - G from the list of headings below.
Write the correct number i - ix in spaces 14-19 below.

i    A non-exclusive language
ii    Fewer languages, more results
iii    Language is personal
iv    What’s fashionable in language
v    From the written word to the spoken word
vi    A real language
vii    Harmony through language
viii    The mechanics of a language
ix    Lost in translation

14. Paragraph B
15. Paragraph C
16. Paragraph D
17. Paragraph E
18. Paragraph F
19. Paragraph G

Questions 20-22

Choose the correct letter A, B, C or D.

20: What advantage is there to learning Esperanto as one’s first foreign language?

1. Its pronunciation rules follow those of most European languages.
2. There are no grammar rules to learn.
3. It can make the learning of other foreign languages less complicated.
4. Its verbs are not conjugated.

21: What do its critics say of Esperanto?

1. It is only used in artificial situations.
2. It requires emotional involvement.
3. It cannot translate works of literature.
4. It lacks depth of expression.

22: How could Esperanto help on a global level?

1. It would eliminate the need for conferences.
2. More aid money would reach those who need it.
3. The world population would be speaking only one language.
4. More funds could be made available for learning foreign languages.

Questions 23-26

Do the following statements agree with the information given in the Reading Passage?
In spaces 23-26 below, write

YES if the statement agrees with the views of the writer
NO if the statement contradicts the views of the writer
NOT GIVEN if it is impossible to say what the writer thinks about this

23: Supporters of Esperanto say it gives everyone an equal voice.
24: Esperanto is the only artificially-constructed language.
25: Esperanto can be learned as part of a self-study course.
26: Esperanto can be used equally in formal and casual situations.

Answers for One who hopes with Explanations

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14. Answer: V
Explanation: Section B tells how Esperanto was developed by its creator, Zamenhof, as well as the difficulties it faced in becoming an acceptable worldwide language. He believes that Esperanto is only spoken by 0.03% of the world's population, in part because it has not been vigorously pushed to other nations and has no official position there.

15. Answer: VIII
Explanation: The author emphasizes in paragraph C that Esperanto is a constructed language with no distinct ethnic or cultural origin. Grammar, phonetics, and semantics are comparable to those of the Indo-European language family. Writer takes pride in having just 5 vowels and 2 consonants, which makes it easy to learn.

16. Answer: III
Explanation: Paragraph D emphasizes the language's distinctiveness and isolation, as language opponents claim it lacks any emotional or cultural foundations. As a result, the speaker is always aware of the language's artificiality. This becomes an issue when speakers have difficulty pronouncing words because they do not come naturally out of their lips.

17. Answer: VI
Explanation: A fan of the language says that its artificiality is what distinguishes it. Because it has no ethnic or cultural background, Esperanto is said to become a neutral language.

18. Answer: I
Explanation: The author emphasizes the language's development potential, and the reason for its failure is that, while possessing all of the required traits to evolve into a common global language, it was not taught in schools or included in curricula.

19. Answer: II
Explanation: The author raises concern about the billions of dollars spent on basic translations at conferences and meetings worldwide; these sums are taxes paid by the working class to the ruling class.

20. Answer: C
Explanation: As indicated in the paragraph, students who studied exclusively French for four years had an edge over those who studied Language for one year and French for three years.

21. Answer: D
Explanation: Esperanto is a fictitious language with no linguistic or cultural roots. The speaker struggles to pronounce the sentences naturally due to a lack of an emotional context for the words, a lack of a free flow of phrases from the tongue naturally, and a lack of an elegant language.

22. Answer: B
Explanation: Translation for international meetings and conferences costs millions of dollars due to the range of languages utilized in the forums. If a universal language is learned, all languages will be able to speak with one another. This will save a million dollars, which will then be used to help people in genuine need.

23. Answer: YES
Explanation: Because the language lacks any cultural or emotional background, it provides equal representation to all speakers and prevents any speaker from having an edge over another.

24. Answer: NO
Explanation: There are various more languages that were purposefully or mechanically generated. Esperanto is one of these languages, and it is also one of the easiest to learn.

25. Answer: NOT GIVEN
Explanation: N/A

26. Answer: YES
Explanation: Esperanto is a language that may be spoken and used in any circumstance. Although this is one of its benefits, it is not required to use it in international forums or at international gatherings. If not, there are no limitations on how it may be used, therefore it can be spoken and informally.

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