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English is (21) ________ (widely) used language in the history of our planet. One in every seven human beings (22) ________ speak it. More than half of the world’s books and three quarters of international mail 23 _____ (be)  in English. Of all languages, English has the largest vocabulary — perhaps as many as two million words.
    However, let’s face it: English is a crazy language. There is no egg in (24) ________   eggplant, neither pine nor apple in a pineapple and no ham in a hamburger. Sweet-meats are candy, while sweetbreads, (25) ________ aren’t sweet, are meat.
    We take English (26) _______ granted. But when we explore its paradoxes (
矛盾), we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square, public bathrooms have no baths in them.
    And why is it (27) ________ a writer writes, but fingers don’t fing, grocers don’t groce, and hammers don’t ham? (28) _____ the plural of tooth is teeth, shouldn’t the plural of booth be beeth?

How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? How can overlook and oversee be opposites, while quite a lot and quite a few are alike? How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell the next?
    So far English, (29) ________ (invent) by people not computers, (30) ________ (reflect) the creativity of human beings.

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21. the most widely              22. can              23. are               24. an

25. which         26. for                     27. that

32. If            29. invented      30. has reflected

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