The desire to use language as a sign of national identityis a very natural one, and in result language has played a (1) ______prominent part in national moves. Men have often felt the (2) ______need to cultivate a given language to show that they aredistinctive from another race whose hegemony they resent. (3) ______At the time the United States split off from Britain, for (4) ______example, there were proposals that independence should belinguistically accepted by the use of a different language from (5) ______those of Britain. There was even one proposal that Americans (6) ______should adopt Hebrew. Others favoured the adoption ofGreek, though, as one man put it, things would certainly besimpler for Americans if they stuck on to English and made (7) ______the British learn Greek. At the end, as everyone knows, the (8) ______two countries adopted the practical and satisfactory solutionof carrying with the same language as before. (9) ______Since nearly two hundred years now, they have shown (10) ______the world that political independence and national identitycan be complete without sacrificing the enormous mutualadvantages of a common language. 6（）