Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words．(在短文内填入适当的词，使其内容通顺，每空格限填一词，首字母已给。)

　　I recently heard a story about a famous scientist．Because of his great achievement , he was thought to be more creative than the average person．When he was ask w　　1　　 he was able to do this ,he gave the answer．It all came from an e　　2　　 with his mother when he was about two years old．"I was trying to get a bottle of milk from the fridge when I lost the bottle and it fell, spilling the milk all over the floor a sea of milk ! I was f　　3　　 and I didn't know what to do ! " he said．

　　His mother heard the noise and got into the kitchen．" I was c　　4　　 how to explain all this to you ,mom．" he said．Instead of punishing(惩罚)him, she said "Robert ,what a great mess you have made! I have never seen such a huge sea of milk before!　well, since the milk has a　　5　　 been spilled ,would you like to play in the milk for a while ? We can it up after that．"

　　Indeed , he did so．After a few minutes , his mother said,"You know ,Robert ,whenever you make a mess like this , finally you have to clean it up．" He used a sponge(海绵)and together they cleaned up the spilled milk．

　　His mother then said ,"you know ,we failed in how to successfully carry a big milk bottle with two tiny hands just now．Let's go out in the yard and fill the bottle with water to see if you can f　　6　　 a new way to carry it．"Then the little boy learned that if he grasped the bottle at the top near the lip with both hands , he could carry it w　　7　　 dropping it．

　　What a wonderful lesson!

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Answer the questions(根据短文内容回答下列问题)：

　　English is an important international language, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy to learn．Many experts have tried to make English easier to learn － but they weren’t always successful．

　　In 1930, Professor C．K．Ogden of Cambridge University invented Basic English．It had only 850 words(and just eighteen verbs)and Ogden said most people could learn it in just thirty hours．The problem was that people who learned Basic English could write and say simple messages, but they couldn’t understand the answers in ‘real’ English!It was also impossible to explain a word if it wasn’t in the Basic English word list．

　　R．E．Zachrisson, a university professor in Sweden, decided that the biggest problem for learners of English was spelling, so he invented a language with the name Anglic．Anglic was similar to English, but with much simpler spelling．‘Father’ became ‘faadher’, ‘new’ became ‘nue’ and ‘years’ became ‘yeerz’．Unluckily, Anglic never became popular．

　　In the age of international communication through the Internet, who knows what will happen?…a new form of English might appear．A large number of the world’s e-mails are in English and include(包括)examples of ‘NetLingo’ like OIC(Oh, I see)and TTYL(Talk to you later)．In another fifty years, English might not be used．We might all speak fluent Internetish!

1．Many experts have tried to make English easier to learn, haven’t they?

2．Who invented Basic English in 1930?

3．How long could most people learn Basic English according to Professor Ogden?

4．What was the biggest problem for learners of English according to Professor Zachrisson?

5．What might happen to English in another fifty years?

6．What do you think of the experts’ ideas of making English easier?