Вопрос № 780997 - Английский язык

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The modern world is becoming smaller all the time. Every day the distances between different 1_____________ seem less. For this reason it’s becoming more and more important 2_____________ different languages, especially English.
One billion people speak English today. That’s about 20% of the world’s population.
400 million people speak 3______________ as their first language. For the other 600 million people it’s either a second language or a 4______________ language.

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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.

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Among the great number of languages that exist on our 1____________ today there are some which stand out. Scientists distinguish 13 great 2______________. These are the languages that are spoken by no less than 50 per cent of 3____________ on the Earth. They are Chinese, English, Russian, Spanish, Hindi and Urdu, Indonesian, Arabic, Bengali, Portuguese, Japanese, German, French, Italian.
A person who knows these languages can 4_____________ to and understand almost 2 thousand million people and doesn’t suffer from the language barrier.

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To state the significance of this or that 1____________ one must take into consideration not only its prevalence but the quality of printed production. For instance, the largest number of 2_____________ is published in Russian including technical literature. The greatest number of press production 3______________ in English. As far as books are concerned, the largest number of them is translated from English, 4______________, French and German accordingly.

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The knowledge of other 1_____________ is very useful, especially if you have to work abroad or if you must 2_____________ foreign literature in the original. If you know the language of a foreign 3_____________, you can talk to its people and understand what they are speaking about without anybody’s help. The knowledge of foreign languages also helps young people of 4______________ countries to develop friendship.

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As for me, I am learning English, because in the recent years it has become not only an 1_____________ language, it is now a number one language in the 2_____________. Besides, English is becoming a lingua franca. It is used a great deal by businessmen from different 3____________, which don’t have a common language, in order to do business. It is already a lingua franca at international conferences. Besides, every person who 4______________ in Europe, Asia or Africa, even in the South America gets around by using English. So English is becoming more and more the language for practical use.