As we all know nowadays, English , which was only spoken by people living in Britain (1) the 16th century, began to be spoken in many other countries from the next century with the English colonists（殖民者） making voyages to conquer other places all over the world. (2) that, a large (3) of countries speak English (4) their first language, such as the U.S., Canada, Australia. (5) people in many more countries have a good command of English and speak (6) fluently as a foreign or (7) language (8) ever before.
Although there are (9) kinds of English in the world, the (10) speakers can have almost no (11) in communication with each other (12) they don’t make (13) of the same kind of English. However, sometimes they do have some difficulty in (14) and understanding each other’s words, dialects , pronunciation and (15) .
English is an all-the-time changing (16) , for example, the English of AD 450 to 1150, which was (17) on German, was quite different from the English spoken at (18) . (19) to Shakespeare’s efforts, English had a big change in usage. American English got its own identity with the (20) of Noah Webster.