MY PARENTS ARE VERY _________ OF MY INTELLIGENCE. (PRIDE)V/ CHO...

6/ My parents are very _________ of my intelligence. (pride)

V/ Choose the word or phrase that best fits the blank space in the following passage:

Approximately 350 million people speak English as their first language. About the same number

use it as a() __________ language. It is the English language that is used as the language of

aviation, international sport and pop music. 75% of the world mail is in English, 60% of the radio

station () ________ in English and more than half of the world’s periodicals are printed ()

__________ English. It is the English language that is used as an () ________language in 44

countries, and as the language of business commerce and technology in many others. English is

now an effective medium of international communication. () ________, it is the written English,

which is not systematically phonetic, that causes difficulties()_______foreigners.