62. 63. 64. 65. II. QUESTIONS 66-75

61. 62. 63. 64. 65. II. Questions 66-75: Read the text below and decide which answer A, B, C or D best fits each numbered blank and write your answers into the box below. (10 pts) English has for more than a century and (66)_______ half (67)_______ called a world language. The number of people who speak it (68)_______ their mother tongue has been estimated at between three hundred million and four hundred million. It is recognized as an (69)_______ language in countries (70)_______ 1.5 billion people live. In China, the importance attached to (71)_______ English is such that a televised teaching course drew audiences of up to one million. But this spread of English thorough the world is relatively recent. In the (72)_______sixteenth century English was spoken by just under five million people. The (73)_______of English in North America was the (74)_______ step in its worldwide expansion. The United States is a huge commercial market and his has tended to promote the English language in many other nations. About eighty percent of the data stored on the world’s computer (75)_______ believed to be in English and nowadays insufficient knowledge of English can be a problem in business.