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  There are more than 3,000 million people on the earth and about 2,500 languages. Of these languages only about twelve are used by more than 50 million people. Here are the names of some languages which have very wide use: Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese etc. All these languages have more people talking them today than ever before. A hundred and fifty years ago there were only about twenty million people who talked English, for example. Now there are at least two hundred and fifty million, and there may be many, many more.

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(1)There are about ______ languages in the world.

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A3,000

B2,500

C5

D50 million

(2)Which languages are widely used in the world?

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AEnglish and Chinese

BGerman and Japanese

CFrench

DABC

(3)150 years ago, only about ______ people spoke English.

[  ]

A20,000

B200,000

C2,000,000

D20,000,000

(4)Which of the following languages has most speakers, do you think?

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AEnglish.

BFrench.

CChinese.

DJapanese.

(5)We know that now there are ______ people speaking English than before.

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Afewer

Bmuch less

Cmuch more

Dmany more

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  Then the ship sinks.

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1.Titanic is the name of a film and it’s also the name of a _________.

2.Titanic sank _________ it hit an iceberg.

3.The _________ is very cold in North Pole(北极)and in South Pole.

4.At times we can’t see the _________ in North Pole and in South Pole for a long time.

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