《变化中的英语》期末复习练习题及参考答案背甲龙
Section One : Multiple Choice
1. When we speak of languages as living or dead we mean the language _______.
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A. are not ud now.
B. have living speakers or not.
C. do not work now.
D. are actually living or dead
对的答案：B
2. Standard English refers to the English ________.
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A. of writing.
Bewitch British people u .
C. which American people u.
D. which British and American people u
对的答案：A
3. RP refers to _________.
A work English.
B. General American.
C.BBC English and General American.
D. Educated Southern British English
对的答案：D
4. When we say RP, we mean it is a(n) ________.
A. variety of spoken English.
B. variety of written English.
C. regional dialect.
D. accent.
对的答案：A
5. About some special terms, the statement that _______ is NOT true.
A. a language is the major means of human communication.
B. a dialect is a variety of a language.
多睡觉有什么好处C. a variety is a language distinct from others.
D. the term accent has to do only with the sound of the language
对的答案：C
6. In Activity 5, you were asked to listen to some regional varieties of English, but ______ is NOT included.
A. Cornwall.
B. London cockney.
C. Northumberland.
D. Midland
对的答案：D
7. About language change, the statement that ______ is NOT true.
A. change in language matches change in people’s lives.
B. language change is usually even and steady.
C. languages change over time.
D. new words enter the language to match new sorts of experience
对的答案：B
8. When you meet some old, native speakers of English who are hard to understand, you know, it is probably becau ___________.
A. your English is too poor.
B. they are speaking a variety of English.
C. they speak poor English.
D. you do not listen carefully enough
对的答案：B
9. Dialects refer to ______________.
A. different ways of speaking.
B. different written systems or different grammatical structures.
C. both A and B.
D. a form that is quite different from a language
对的答案：A
10. New words are from ________.
A. old words ud with new meaning.
B. Words made up by pronouncing the initial letters of veral words
C. words borrowed from other languages
D. all of the above
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对的答案：D
11. Raslas was written in 18th century by _______________.
A. Mark Twain
B. Samuel Johnson
C. Wordsworth
D.
D. Shakespeare
对的答案：B
12. The Tempest was first printed in 1623, written by ____________.
A. Mark Twain
B. Samuel Johnson
C. Shakespeare
D. Geoffrey Chaucer
对的答案：C
13. The Canterbury Tales was a famous collection of stories in ver, written by ___________.
A. Geoffrey Chaucer
B. Shakespeare
C. Bernard Shaw
D. Samuel Johnson
对的答案：A
14. Angles and Saxons were _______________.
A. Latin-speaking Romans
B. French-speaking Normans
C. Scandinavian people
D. Native British people
对的答案：C
15. The final conquer of the British Isles was in _________________.
A.1st century
B.
C. by the Scandinavian people
B.5th century A.D. by the Normans
C.11th century A.
D. by the Normans
D. World War II by Germans
对的答案：C
16. Standard English can be pronounced ___________.
A. only using a Received Pronunciation
B. only in the accent of educated North American Speakers
C. either in educated southern British accent or educated North American accent
D. with a variety of accents
对的答案：D
17. Standard English started in _________________.
A. the South East of England
B. the east of England
C. the south of England
D. London, Oxford and Cambridge
对的答案：A
18. Standard English started in ______ century.
A.5th
B.11th
C.14th
D.15th
对的答案：C
19. Standard English started spread all over the country becau _______________.
技术转让方式A. English was allowed to be taught in schools
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C. William Caxton t up a printing press in 1475, and printed books
D. All of the above
对的答案：D
20. The core of English lexicon is ______________.打破砂锅问到底
A .French words
B. Latin and Greek words
C. The words brought back by the overas
D. Of Germanic origin
对的答案：D
21. When you recognize a word and know what it means, you have a _______ knowledge of it.
A. receptive
B. productive
C. descriptive
D. prescriptive
对的答案：A
22. Talking to people needs _________ knowledge and practice.
A. receptive
B. productive
C. descriptive
D. prescriptive
对的答案：B
23. Received Pronunciation ____________.
A. is a regional accent
B. belongs to south East of England
C. is accepted and understood worldwide
D. is the same thing as Standard English
对的答案：C
24. When a teacher corrects a student’s mistakes ,he is doing _________ teaching.
A. receptive
B. productive
C. descriptive
D. prescriptive
对的答案：D
25. English is not alone, not unique in being an international language. There are other international languages, such as ____________.
A. Spanish
B. Swedish.
C. Japane
D. Danish
对的答案：A
26. An American teacher, who made an especially important contribution to the American way of
