The world has a new mania. A mania for (1) ______________. Listen as Chinese students practice their English, by screaming it... How many people are trying to learn English worldwide? (2) _____________ of them... In(3) _____________, in India, in (4)______________, and (5)_____________, in China. If you're a Chinese student, you start learning English in the third grade, (6) __________. That's why this year, China will become the world's largest English-speaking country. Why English? In a single word: (7) ______________ . Opportunity for a better life, a job, to be able to pay for school, or put better food on the table. Imagine a student taking a giant test for(8) ________________. Her score on this one test (9) ________ determines her future. She studies 12 hours a day for three years to prepare. Twenty-five percent of her grade is based on English. It's called the Gaokao, and (10) ______________ high school Chinese students have already taken this grueling test. The (11) _________ to learn English is almost(12) ____________ , unless you (13) _________ it... So is English mania good or bad? Is English a tsunami , (14) _______________other languages? Not likely. English is the world's second language. Your native language is your life. But with English you can become part of a wider conversation -- a global conversation about global problems, like (15) __________________or poverty, or hunger or disease. The world has other(16) _____________ languages. (17) ________________ is the language of science. Music is the language of emotions. And now English is becoming the language of (18) ___________________. Not because America is pushing it, but because the world is (19) __________ it. So English mania is a turning point. Like the harnessing of electricity in our cities, or the fall of the Berlin Wall, English (20) ___________________ for a better future -- a future where the world has a common language to solve its common problems. Thank you very much.