II. 根据课文内容填空（共16小题，每空0.5 分，满分8分）

1. It was (1)________ as early as the 1700s that English would one day be the global language and that has proved to be the case in the last few (2)__________.

2. What this means is that they make sure there is an adequate amount of input in English (3)______ to the students through various (4)_______.

3. Without the (5)________ of these pioneers in science and technology, whether lucky or (6)_______, the world as know it today would have been a (7)______ different place.

4. These drugs are originally (8)______ to help people with illness, but in the wrong hands, they create supreme athletes (9)_______ them faster and stronger than is normal for human beings.

5. Doping is not only a problem in athletics, it is part of every sport where athletes (10)_____ to achieve (11)______ their natural limits and are (12)________to cheat to do so.

6. The Olympic spirit — the spirit of (13)_______ which emphasises taking part rather than (14)_______— has been (15) ______ by the desire to succeed at all (16)____.