Question – Answer Quiz

More than 300,000,000 people speak English as their first or ___(1)___ language. Another 300,000,000 speak it as a second language. Chinese is the only language with more speakers than English. This is because of the huge ___(2)___ of China, more than one billion people. English is the native or official language on one-fifth of the land area of the world. It is spoken in North America, Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand. ___(3)___ South America and India it is one of the official languages. More people study English than any other languages. In many countries, the textbooks in colleges and universities are written in English. The language of instruction in many university classes is English ___(4)___ the native language is not English. English is the language of international communication. English is widely used ___(5)___ with people all over the world. It is also the language of international business, research and science.