English in Use
For questions 1-15, read the text below and look carefully at each line. Some of the lines are correct, and some have a word which should not be there. If a line is correct, put a tick (√) at the end of the line. If a line has a word which should not be there, write the word at the end of the line. There are two examples at beginning, (0) and (00).
Why am I learning english?
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English is the most widely spoken language in the world |
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today. It is a quite amazing how the use of English has |
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become so widespread. The English is not as easy as Esperanto, |
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which was especially written for to be as easy as possible for |
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people to learn, and yet the Esperanto is spoken by very few |
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people around the world. For many people English is not as |
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more beautiful a language as French but it seems too late for |
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French to catch up with English as an international language. |
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German is a quite a useful language if you are in business |
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in Europe but it is not half as easy to learn so as English, |
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and people say it doesn’t sound as if pleasant as English. |
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English has become so important that it is becoming the more |
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and more essential to know it if you want to get a good job. |
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There are also so many of films and so many songs which are |
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in English. It is too much early to say whether English will remain |
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as influential as it is today but it seems like difficult to stop its |
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growth. It looks like it will be a world language for a long time |
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