Fill in the blank in the following passage with ONE suitable word.
English is the (1) language of the Philippines. English-medium education (2) in the Philippines in 1901 afterthe arrival of some 540 US teachers. English was also chosen for newspapers and magazines, the media, and literary writing.
The latest results from a rent survey suggest that about 65 percent of the (3) of the Philippines has the (4) to understand spoken and (5) English, with 48 percent stating that they can write standard English.
The economy is based on English, and successful workers and managers are fluent (6) English. (7) , many schools know that their (8) must be fluent in English to be successful.
