Вопрос № 222865 - Английский язык

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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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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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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_____________.

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English is spoken practically all over the 1____________. It is spoken as the 2_____________ tongue in Great Britain, the United States of America, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. A lot of people 3____________ English in China, Japan, India, Africa and other countries. It is one of 6 official languages of the United Nations. It is studied as a foreign 4_____________ in many schools.

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England’s 1____________ helps to understand the present condition of English. Many English 2____________ were borrowed from the language of Angles and Saxons. Hundreds of French words 3___________ into English. These 4___________ words didn’t crowd out corresponding Anglo-Saxon words. There exist «act» and «deed», «beautiful» and «pretty», «form» and «shape».

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Many 1_____________ words were brought by traders and travellers. These 2____________ came from all parts of the 3____________: «umbrella» - from Italian, «skates» - from Dutch, «tea» - from Chinese, «cigar» - from Spanish.
Some words came into English directly from Latin, which was the 4___________ of the church and the universities in the Middle Ages.