In this world，there are more than 365 million people whose native language is English.Of this number of people，only about 275 million __36__in the United

　　States and Great Britain.The __37__90 million live in Australia，Canada，New Zealand，South Africa，some Pacific islands，and other places __38__British people settled.__39__of time，one English speaker __40__understand another.

　　But in every __41__ country，people added new words __42__their vocabularies to name animals，plants，and other things that were __43__to the first British people who went there.British settlers in Australia __44__the word “kangaroo” for an animal they had never seen __45__，from the language of the people who were __46__to Australia.And the British who __47__to South Africa took “trek”，meaning a long journey by ox wagon，__48__the language of the Dutch people who settled in the same place.

　　English speakers of __49__every country know what a kangaroo is and use the word “trek” to __50__“difficult journey”．But some __51__“English” words are used only by the people who borrow or __52__them.A South African who talks about “kopjes” is speaking English，but only another South African or a Dutch person would know he is speaking __53__hills.And if an Australian said，“There were some ‘ropable’ people at the corroboree (狂欢会)，” only another Australian would __54__ that he was talking about angry people __55__ a party.

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