If you speak English, you might be acquainted with quite a few other languages as well: Greek, Latin, German, French, Spanish, and Thai, to name just a __16__ You may not be fluent in any of these languages, but every day you usewords from their vocabularies.
In fact, __17__ two or more different cultures establish and maintain contact over an extended period of time, the vocabulary of each culture's language __18__ word borrowing from each of the other cultures'langua. English has borrowed words liberally from other languages to __19__ its vocabulary.
In the United States much of this word borrowing resulted __20__ immigration The United States has been peopled __21__ by immigrants. from its birth to the present day. One great wave of immigration to the United States took place from about 1820 to 1850. Millions of people __22__ noverty and famine in thei countries of origin __23__ improving the quality of their lives. From Westem Europe came millions of immigrants-Irish, Germans, Scandinavians. Each of these groups brought with it a（n） __24__ culture. Language of each culture eventually would be woven __25__ the cultural fabric of the developing nation. From 1880 to the 1920s, __26__ wave of immigration from southern and eastern Europe and other places of the world __27__ the cultural vitality of the United States. Each of these cultures has __28__ the vocabulary of American English. Immigration to the United States __29__ to this day. Immigrants brought with them new words that have reshaped American English during the past two 30 American English will keep changing in the future.
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