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was heisdid he gohe goeshe went 7 While I ............ my homework I heard a strange noise. am makingdidwas makingmadewas doing 8 On Monday I ............ a letter from Wolfgang. have receivedgetreceivedwas writtenhave got 9 What does he like doing? .......computer games, reading. That sort of thing. playingdoingmakinghavingseeing 10 English............in Canada, Australia and New Zealand as well as the USA and Britain. is spokenis speakingspeakingwas spokenspeaks 11 This weekend I............a wedding. am going togoing towill go togowill go 12 Next weekend we............a party. will makeare goingare having are making will go 13 I'm tired. I just want............bed. go to theto go to thego togoing toto go to 14 Michael............shopping. loves goingenjoys going forlikes going towants tolike to go 15 I'd give you her phone number if I............it. have hadhadam havinghavewas having When she got to hospital they found that she............her leg. brokewas brokehad been brokenhad brokenhas broken 17

You come from France,............? weren't youdon't youhaven't youaren't youdidn't you 18 I'd like to know where............ is the schoolcan find the schoolthe school isare the schoolthe school are 19 Thank you for flying Budget Air. We hope you had a pleasant............ travelflyingexcursionjourneyvoyage 20 Last year my sister won a singing............ gamematchexaminationtestcontest My Father............to apply to study English at university. wantis thinkingmade melikeshas decided 22 My Mother said that I............her necklace, but I borrowed my sister's instead. usedcould wearcan wearcould warecan take 23 The police asked me............anything? if I had been seeingif I had seenI was seeingif I have seenI saw 24 I............to eating English food. likeam not usedusedwould likedidn't use 25 The streets were wet when I left the house in the morning so I knew that it............during the night. was raininghas been readinghad been raininghad rainread 26 He would have passed the exam if............so lazy. he'd beenhe wouldn't have beenhe hadn't beenhe had beenhe'd have been 27 There's a wonderful smell in the kitchen. Somebody must............food for my birthday party. had preparedhad been preparinghave preparedbe preparinghave been prepared 28 I wish that I............all those sweets before dinner. I don't feel hungry now. couldn't eathaven't eatenwould not eatdidn't eathadn't eaten

29 ............ rain, the Queen's garden party will be held inside Buckingham Palace. if itin the event ofin the case ofin place ofin time of 30 The General made............of the army regiment. an observationan inspectionan investigationan examinationa check-up READING TEST Facts about English How much do you know about the English language? As the internet and other international media have become more and more popular, the amount of international communication in English just keeps increasing. There are many different reasons for this, but linguists believe that this trend will just keep continuing - maybe even leading to a three-fold increase in speakers within the next 10 years! As you might guess, more people speak English as a second language. There are estimated to be about four hundred and seventy million speakers of English as a foreign language, and around three hundred and seventy five million speakers of English as a first language worldwide. Since there are estimated to be over 2,500 languages in the world, that's a very high proportion of people using English! Computers have significantly changed international communication in the last 10 years. English is the main language used on the internet and is the medium for about 80% of information and text stored on all the computers in the world. Of course, it's not the internet that first spread English around the world. Long before the internet or even the computer was invented, science and international travel and trade helped the expansion of the English language. Approximately half the world's technical and scientific documents are written in English and there are special versions of English for sea and air navigation - they have a restricted vocabulary and also include some foreign words where there is no precise translation in English. If you added all the technical, scientific and navigation terms to the number of words in the English dictionary it would practically double the total to make nearly a million. 1 Which of these facts is true? There are fewer than 500,000 speakers of English in the world.More people speak English as a first language than learn it.470,000,000 people have learnt to speak English, but its not their first language. 2 Not including technical, navigational and scientific words, approximately how many English words are there? Nearly half a millionAbout half a million700,000,000 3

English for sea and air navigation is different because It has more words than standard English.It doesnt include any foreign words.It has less words than standard English. 4 Which of these statements is false according to the text? More than three-quarters of all the information stored on the worlds computers is in English.The Internet was the reason English first started spreading around the world. International media is one of the reasons why English is becoming even more popular. 5 Linguists think that the number of speakers of English might increase over the next 10 years to three times the current number.by 300, 000.by 3 million.