LEARNING A FOREIGN LANGUAGETEST 1PART 1

2. Choose A, B, C or D to complete the following passage.There are at least 2,000 different languages in the world. Of all these languages, English is themost (1)……….used. It is used by business people, airline pilots and sea captains all over the world. It is also the first language(2)………sports and science. So it is very (3)………….to learn English.Chinese is also an important language because it has the (4)………numbers ofspeakers. There are not only one billion people living in China today, but also manyChinese people (5)………outside China. Chinese iswidely (6)………..in many parts of Asia and Africa. Russian is spoken in both Europe and Asia.French is widely (7)………in Europe and in parts of Canada, Africa and Asia.From more than 2,000 languages, the United Nations has (8)………six of themfor business. They are Arabic, Chinese, English , French, Russian and Spanish.