In the popular mind, the Internet is the realization of the global village, where the flow of information and ideas is unimpeded

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问题     In the popular mind, the Internet is the realization of the global village, where the flow of information and ideas is unimpeded by distance or national barriers. Much has been writ ten 【C1】______the technology and the benefits that this system of unregulated information exchange will bring. But 【C2】______has been very little discussion about the languages—human, not computer languages 【C3】______are being used on the Internet.
    Central 【C4】______  the ideology of the emerging Internet community is the freedom of the individual users to express 【C5】______  as they like. Nevertheless, 【C6】______  recently, it has been very difficult to communicate through the Internet in any language 【C7】______  could not be expressed in the standard English alphabet as defined 【C8】______  the American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII).
    English is already the premier 【C9】______  of science and technology worldwide. The peculiar restriction of 【C10】______  able to communicate with only the limited ASCII character set has worked to further encourage the 【C11】______  English, especially by those 【C12】______  native language is not normally expressed in some version of 【C13】______  Roman alphabet.
    In fact, it seems to be typical that 【C14】______  accessing a network in a non-English speaking country 【C15】______  is often presented with a choice of the local language(s) or English. Many of the national networks that have now linked 【C16】______  to the Internet are used 【C17】______  scientific and technical communication, 【C18】______  a rapidly growing portion of the Internet’s community are non-professional people.
    Familiarity with English may be assumed 【C19】______  a linguist or a physicist, but growing 【C20】______  of users with no English language skills are joining the net in 【C21】______  of the dominance of English in message forums and mail lists. Messages 【C22】______  the Usenet
newsgroups are overwhelmingly 【C23】______  in English, and the bulk of the moderated mailing lists (including 【C24】______  Linguist Discussion List, and international E-mail discussion list for linguists) are conducted in 【C25】______.
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解析 central to中央的,主要的,重要的:His alibi was central to his defense.他的辩解围绕他的自卫。Such values are central to our way of life.这类价值观对于我们的生活方式是至关重要的。
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