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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_____________.