10．In Spain,（　(1)　）English hope for jobs in Britain or the United States. Others want to work for international companies with offices in Spain. Many companies now say workers must be bilingual.
11．Dominic Campbell is an American. He lives in Madrid and teaches English part-time.
12．“So a lot of jobs now are actually mandatory that you know at least two languages, and a lot of them actually want at least Spanish and English. And a lot of them（　(2)　）Spanish, English, and French -- especially airlines.”

François Hollande, the Socialist candidate, won France’s presidential election, (1) [beating / to beat] Nicolas Sarkozy, the centre-right incumbent, by 51.6% to 48.4%. He will be inaugurated on May 15th; a day later he will travel to Berlin to (2) [meet / meet with] Angela Merkel, the German chancellor. Top of the agenda will be the German-backed “fiscal compact”, which the Frenchman has threatened to scupper if it is not accompanied by growth-promoting measures.

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８．（　(1)　） can decrease job opportunities. Globalization may give opportunities for a better job in another country.
９．“People realize, you know, they are not only going to have to be mobile （　(2)　）, but they’re gonna have to be mobile because of necessity.”

Bo Xilai, a former rising star in China’s Communist Party (1) [who / which] was removed as head of the province-level municipality of Chongqing last month, was suspended from the Politburo. His wife, (2) [meanwhile / meantime], was detained on suspicion of murdering Neil Heywood, a British businessman found (3) [death / dead] in Chongqing last November. The scandal has rocked China’s political class.

６．Richard Vaughan is from Texas. For thirty-five years, he’s lived in Spain. He owns that country’s biggest English teaching company. His company （　(1)　） TV channel. “Aprende Ingles” -- Learn English -- is Spain’s only national channel in English. People watch his channel and take his classes （　(2)　）.
７．“People don’t learn English here for cultural reasons. Some do. But the motive is always, 99% of the time, professional.”

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Myanmar’s National League for Democracy party won most of the seats (1) [it / its] contested in by-elections that were held in 45 constituencies. Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of the democracy movement, won a seat just outside Yangon. It was the first time the NLD (2) [had / was] participated in an election since 1990, (3) [which / when] the result was overturned by the army.

３．（　(1)　） speaks Spanish. There are many Spanish language TV shows and movies. Spaniards can also watch Hollywood movies dubbed in Spanish. They can watch news （　(2)　）. ４．Richard Vaughan is one of the few English voices on Spanish TV. ５．“Hello and welcome back to another half-hour segment of Cloverdale’s Corner. Today is Tuesday, and Lourdes has had to leave, but we still have four people here . . .”

Maryland became the eighth state in America (1) [legalizing / to legalise] gay marriage, after a vote in the legislature. But gay Marylanders may not get the chance to wed, if an alliance of Republicans and black churches get (2) [their / them] way at the ballot box in November and stop the law from coming into (3) [effect / effective].

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