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Three-quarters of the world’s mail, and its telexes and cables, are in English. So are more than half the world’s 1_______________ and scientific periodicals: it is the language of technology from Silicon Valley to Shanghai. English is the medium for 80 per cent of the information stored in the world’s 2________________. Nearly half of all business deals in Europe are conducted in English. It is the 3______________ of sports and glamour, the official language of the Olympics and the Miss Universe Competition. English is the official voice of the air and the sea, and of Christianity: it is the ecumenical language of the World Council of Churches. The largest broadcasting companies in the world (CBS, NBS, ABC, BBC) transmit in English to audiences that regularly exceed one hundred 4_____________.

a) computers c) language

b) technical d) million

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English is one of the most widely used 1_______________ in the world. Over 337 million people 2________________ English as their first language, and about 350 million people speak it as a second language. America has the largest number of English 3______________ - over 226 million speak the language as 4______________. India was a British colony for along time. Now English is the second official language in India. About 3,000 newspapers are published in India in the English language.

a) speakers c) languages

b) speak d) a mother tongue