About 800 million people in the world speak English, about 15% of the world’s population.

About 400 million people speak   1   as their first language in the United States, Great Britain, Ireland, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand and so on.

About 300 million people speak English as a   2   language, for example, in many parts of India and Africa people speak one language   3   with their family and friends but use English for work. The children study their lessons in English at school.

About 100 million people speak English as a foreign language. For example, in Germany people don’t use English   4   and they don’t speak it at home. In school they study most of their lessons in their native language, German, and English is an extra (單獨設置的) lesson. At work they use English for business with people from   5  .

Why do so many people speak English in the world? That’s because America is very

  6   in business all over the world. American culture is very popular too. In most countries people can   7   English through Hollywood films, TV programs and pop music. English is especially important for the world’s   8  , for science and technology; for pop music and for air travel.

However, the language spoken by the greatest number of people is  9 , which is spoken by over one   10  people; the amazing thing is that they are all nation speakers.

1．A. Chinese        B. German       C. France         D. English

2．A. second                B. first            C. native          D. new

3．A. in public       B. at school        C. at home        D. at work

4．A. all the time       B. for ever        C. in the future   D. at a time

5．A. other countries  B. America          C. Canada       D. Australia

6．A. strong           B. weak            C. popular       D. welcome

7．A. read             B. hear             C. speak                D. watch

8．A. population         B. history           C. environment     D. business

9．A. English          B. Chinese         C. Japanese         D. Russian

10．A. million          B. hundred thousand  C. billion         D. hundred million

1—5   DACAA    6—10   ABDBC

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