Choose the word or phrase among A, B, C or D that best fits the blank space in the following passage.
Language is ___(1)___ people ___(2)___ with one another. It is a terrific tool. Language is spoken, but it is also ___(3)___ down. Sign language used by many people who are ___(4)___ is the communication with gestures. We do ___(5)___ our communication ___(6)___ speaking.
English is ___(7)___ international language in the world, but it is not the world’s most ___(8)___ spoken language. There are more than 1.2 billion people ___(9)___ Chinese. Arabic is second, and then Hindi, with English in the fourth place. ___(10)___ languages in the top ten are Spanish, Bengali, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, and German.