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uage. How many words are there in the English language? There are about 490,000.Also,there are about 300,000 words used in science(科技).There are more words in English than in any other language.But most people use no more than 60,000 words.Children,leaving school at the age of 1 6,know about 1 5,000 words. Chinese language is spoken ________. the biggest number of people in the world 650 million people speak English as________. second language ________ English words are used by most people. thousand ________ know about 15,000 words. finish school at sixteen of the following is true’ is the most widelyused language.BOne day a poor student was walking through a town. He had not had anything to eat for several days and he was very hungry. And when he saw a man selling homemade hamburgers, he let out a scream and fell to the ground. When the surprised seller asked the student what the matter was, the student answered, “I don’t like hamburgers. In fact, I hate them. Whenever I see them, I feel ill and can’t eat.” The hamburger seller then thought that he would play a joke on the student. He put ten hamburgers in the er of a room and then locked the student in it. After a short time, the hamburger seller opened the door of the room. He was surprised to find that the student had eaten all the hamburgers. The student explained. “For some strange reason, I suddenly decided that I liked hamburgers.” The hamburger seller was angry that the student had fooled him. He asked what other things he did not like to eat. “Oh, I like everything, ”answered the student, “Except at the moment I would hate to drink two cups of good strong tea!”6. The student was very hungr