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Some of you must have complained why there are so many English words that you have to  22 every day. However, do you know how many words the English language has exactly? Maybe ten thousand, one hundred thousand, or  23 one million!

Every 98 minutes, there is a new English word being  24 Last time when words were being 25  to the language at this rate was during the  26 of William Shakespeare. The  27 popularity of English has  28 the most fertile period of word creation. About 1.53 billion people speak English as a  29 , a second or a business language. The Global Language Monitor,   30 in the state of Texas in the US, has been recording English word creation since 2003. Now, there are almost one million English words.

Words that are predicted to be the one millionth   31  “defollow”, “defriend”, “noob”, and “greenwashing”. “Defollow” and “defriend” are Internet words,   32 what users do with a person they do not wish to   33 in touch with on the Internet. “Noob” is an offending name for someone new  34 a particular task or community. The word “greenwashing”  35 what companies do to appear  36 friendly. And “chiconomics” means a difficult time in fashion. Of course, there is a  37 that the one millionth word will be a sixth choice. The Global Language Monitor once  38 that the millionth English word would be “imminent” in 2006, but the organization has 39 that expected date  40 once. Other experts have  41 doubts about its methods because they don’t think that there is an agreement about how to classify a word.

22.   A.write       B.read        C.memorize       D.copy

23.   A.still      B.hence      C.nevertheless    D.even

24.   A.inspired      B.motivated      C.commented    D.created

25.   A.advocated     B.added         C.adopted       D.acquired

26.   A.years       B.days        C.months       D.hours

27.   A.appropriate     B.fundamental     C.widespread      D.elementary

28.   A.brought     B.led        C.found        D.taken

29.   A.primary      B.social      C.physical      D.typical

30.   A.lay       B.located      C.built         D.found

31.   A.conclude    B.consist          C.exclude      D.include

32.   A.saying       B.writing        C.describing      D.accounting

33.   A.lose      B.pay         C.have         D.stay

34.   A.on        B.of        C.to        D.with

35.   A.refers to    B.prefers to      C.comes to       D.sticks to

36.   A.continually     B.eventually      C.environmentally    D.constantly

37.   A.possibility      B.fact         C.result        D.bond

38.   A.published      B.declared       C.expected       D.claimed

39.   A.put up      B.put off     C.put down     D.put out

40.   A.other than     B.more than     C.rather than      D.less than

41.   A.consulted    B.instructed      C.associated      D.expressed

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