阅读下列材料，回答问题。

    在中国近代化探索的历程中，国人首先是学习西方的技术，结果甲午一战证明光学技术不好使，同样的洋枪快炮，同样的铁甲战船就干不过小日本，所以就开始学制度。学制度问题又更大了，君主立宪也好，民主共和也好，这么好的制度怎么拿到中国来就变样……后来中国人就开始琢磨，最该彻底改变的是中国人的思想。于是开始学习西方……的思想。──《袁腾飞说中国历史》下

请回答：

根据录音，判断句子是否正确。
Before, I was quiet. Now, I'm active.

English Around the World

    There are more than 3,000 languages ____（speak）in the world. Of all these languages, English is the most ____(wide) used. Recent ____(survey) show that more than 500 million people speak English as their mother tongue.

    From its roots in England, the language was spread around the world ____English traders and English governments in new lands. One of these new lands ____(become) the United States of America. The population of the United States is 309 million,____ (make) it the country with the ____large) number of native English speakers.

    About 300 million people speak English as their second language. There are even more people, like some in Europe as well as in China and Japan,____ study English as a foreign language.

    English has become the base language for international business, for the world's airlines and even for the Internet. Whatever language people speak, they need  ____(know) some English if they work in these fields.____ is clear that the English language is becoming more important.