Part 3: Questions 76 – 85. (2.0 points- 0.2/ each).

Read the text and think of the word which best fits each gap.

There are about 3,000 living languages in the world, but only six of them are the (76) _{…………………..} important ones. Two-thirds of the world’s population speaks (77) _{…………………..} languages. More than 400 million people speak English (78) _{…………………..} their mother tongue. Another 400 million speak it as a second language. No one knows (79) _{…………………..} many people speak it as a foreign language. Chinese is the language with more speakers (80) _{…………………..} English, but it is only the language for over one billion Chinese people. English is the (81) _{…………………..} language on one-fifth of the land area the world over. It is (82) _{…………………..} in North America, Great Britain, Australia, and New Zealand. In South Africa and India, it is one of the official languages. In many countries, the textbooks in universities are (83) _{…………………..} in English. More than three-fifths of the radio stations (84) _{…………………..} programs in English. More than half of the scientific and research journals are (85) _{…………………..} English. English is the language of international communication.