Team 1
How many people in the world speak English as a native language?
a) about 2 million
b) about 1.3 billion
c) about 3 billion
about 1.3 billion
How many countries in the world have English as their official language?
a) 67
b) 86
c) 98
67
How much information stored on computers in the world is in English?
a) 50%
b)80%
c) 90%
80%
How many words are added to the English dictionary every year?
a) 1,000
b) 2,000
c) 4,000
4,000
How many words are there in the English language?
a) 50,000
b) 500,000
c) 1 million
1 million
How many words does the average English speaker know?
a) between 20,000 and 30,000
b) 50,000
c) between 50,000 and 100,000
between 20,000 and 30,000
Who invented such English words as lonely,generous,critic,and bedroom?
a) W.Shakespeare
b) Ch.Dickens
c) I.Newton
W.Shakespeare
The words tea and ketchup came to English from another language.Which language did they come from?
a) Chinese
b) Japanese
c) Hindi
Chinese
What is the most commonly used noun in the English language?
a) person
b) year
c) time
time
How many people in the world speak English as a native language?
a) about 3 million
b) about 360 million
c) about 500 million
about 360 million