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.
There are about 3,000 living languages in the world, but only six of them are the (76)
………………….. important ones.