On the 5th of September 1977, the American spacecraft Voyager One blasted off on its historic mission to Jupiter and beyond. On board the scientists who knew that Voyager would one day spin through distant star systems had installed a recorded greeting from the people of the planet Earth.A brief message in fifty-five different languages for the people of outer space plays a statement from the Secretary-General of the United Nations an Austrian named Kurt Waldheim> speaking on behalf of 147 member states in English.The rise of English is a remarkable success story. When Julius Caesar landed in Britain nearly two thousand years ago, English did not exist. Today English is used by at least 750 million people, and barely half of those speak it as a mother tongue.Some estimates have put that figure closer to one billion. Whatever the total, English today is more widely spoken and written, than any other language has ever been. It has become the language of the planet, the first truly global language.
Use prepositions or adverbs if necessary: 1) Canada is the world’s second largest country. It occupies the whole ...
the northern part ... the North American Continent. It is washed ... the Pacific Ocean ... the west,... the Arctic Ocean ... the north, and ... the Atlantic Ocean ... the east. It borders on (граничит) the United States ... the south. Canada has nearly 15 percent ... the world’s fresh water surface (поверхность). There are so many lakes ... Canada that they have never been counted. The climate ... the eastern and central parts ... Canada is continental... hot summers and cold winters, but... the southwestern and southern parts ... the country the climate is mild. Canada’s forests are one ... her greatest resources. 2) The language ... Australia is English. The climate ... Australia varies... tropical... the cool and temperate. Australia is the driest continent... the Earth. About one half... its territory is occupied ... deserts (пустыни) and semideserts. The commonest trees ... Australia are the eucalyptus, ... which there are over 500 kinds. There are also ocacia or mimosa, which is the national emblem ... Australia. Even stranger than plants are the animals. There live kangaroos, duckbills (утконосы), koalas (or koala bears) and a great number... different birds, parrots... them.
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