1 the end of the 16th century English was only spoken by people from England. They were th

    1     the end of the 16th century English was only spoken by people from England. They were the native _2    (speak). Today,     3     largest number of people speaking English may be in China because a lot of Chinese people learn and speak English     4     their foreign language.
Old English     5    (sound) more or less like German for it was based on German, _6     modern English sounds more like French than German because England once     7    (rule) by the French.
Two people had great effects     8     the English changes. One was Shakespeare,     9     enlarged the English vocabulary and the other was Noah Webster, who wrote a dictionary. The dictionary gave American English     10     own identity.At speakers