Pytanie 1
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Generations of children's comics and films have promoted a weird Picture of what a pidgin language is. People remember "Me Tarzan - you Jane", or other examples of 1. . It can come as something of a shock, therefore, to realize that in many parts of the world pidgin languages are used routinely in such 2. . And the more developed pidgin languages have been used for translations of Shakespeare and the Bible.
All pidgin languages originally start when people who do not have a common language try to communicate with each other. Most of the present-day pidgins 3. - especially in those parts where the British, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch built up their empires. We talk of ‘pidgin English', ‘pidgin French', and so on, depending on which language the pidgin derived from.
Pidgin Englishes 4. - one in the Atlantic and one in the Pacific. The Atlantic varieties developed in West Africa, and were transported to the West Indies and America during the years of the slave trade. In Africa, they are still widely used in the Gambia, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, and Cameroon. The Pacific varieties are found in a wide sweep across the south-western part of the ocean, from the coast of China to the northern part of Australia, in such places as Hawaii, Vanuatu, and Papua New Guinea. In the Americas, they 5. , spoken largely by the black population. Estimates vary but probably about sixty million people speak or understand one or other of these forms of English.
(Source: David Crystal: The English language)
A. grew up along the trade routes of the world
B. primitive people barely able to communicate with each other
C. are mainly to be found in two big ‘families'
D. are popular all around the world
E. are found, in a developed form, in most of the islands and on the mainland
F. daily matters as news broadcasts, safety instructions, newspapers, and commercial advertising