Before the 17th century, most of the native English speakers lived in England. After the 17thcentury, British people began to move to other     1     (country). Gradually, English was spoken there. At present     2     (many) people speak English as their first, second or a foreign language than ever before.     3     (luck), native English speakers can understand each other even if they don’t speak the same kind of English.

Human history begins with stories. Some stories are so important that they    1    （pass）down for countless generations. And storytelling is a useful tool,     2    gives a lesson much more powerfully than other ways. For example, once I had to tell actors to be on time for a performance. Instead of    3    （repeat）the time over and over again, I told them a true story. “The year before, one of the actors was late. We replaced him so he didn’t get a chance to perform.” Then, no one    4    （be）late again.

A video about a Chinese police officer’s broken English went viral on the Internet in China recently. In the video, a German student returned to Shanghai but got     1    (stop) by the security guards at the apartment gate. But the student doesn’t speak Chinese and the security doesn’t speak English. They couldn’t make     2     (they) understood. So the security ended up calling the police for help. Two police officers showed up on the spot, where they communicated with the student     3     very broken English and with body language.     4     settling the problem, the police officer told the student that she should learn some Chinese.

The Chinese language has become increasingly popular in the world. More British students chose to take Chinese tests than German in this year's A levels, showing a great     1    (curious) about the ancient Asian language.

This is the first time that Mandarin     2     (overtake) German at A levels, a British public exam taken by high school students,     3     (make) it the third most popular language in the UK.

A total of 3，334 candidates chose Mandarin     4     their foreign language, up 8.6 percent from 2017,     5     around 3,058 took German A level, down 16.5 percent year on year.

French and Spanish still remain the most popular foreign languages. The German language       6    (follow) by Russian and Polish.

According to the Office of Chinese Language Council International, as of 2017,   some 100 million people, excluding native speakers, use Chinese     7    (global), while the number of Chinese teaching centers has surpassed(超过)70,000.

South Korea has a     8    (large) population of Chinese language learners than any other country in the world with the number estimated at around 10.6 million. Last year alone, over 170，000 people     9    (sign)up for Chinese language tests, like the HSK,     10     name is Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi in Chinese.

The United Nations in 2010 suggested a Chinese Language Day which falls on April 20th each year to celebrate cultural diversity as well as to promote the equal use of all official languages.

The word “diary” comes from the Latin word “diarium”,     1     means “daily allowance”. It refers to a book for writings by date. And it     2     (use) for business notes, planning activities, keeping track of scheduled appointments, or documenting     3     has already happened. Some doctors suggest that     4     (write) in a diary is a good form of self-study.