英语专业变化中文的英语课程自测.docVIP

英语专业《变化中的英语》课程自测 Knowledge Test (20%) 1. All languages _________ as time passes. a. decay b. change c. improve d. expand 2. Most reference books give the number of the languages of the world as __________. a. between 4,000 and 5,000 b. 2,000 and 3,000 b. between 400 and 500 d. between 200 and 300 3.Some languages have no _______ speakers. a. good b. bad c. living d. dead 4. Your own individual language is called __________ a. idiot b. ideograph c. idiolect d. ideology 5. We learn our mother tongue ---we don’t _________it. a. acquire b, inherit c. study d, absorb 6. You and I don’t speak ______as our parents did. a. differently b. similarly c. exactly d. precisely 7. Over a longer period—say a hundred years—it is a different story! New words come into use. Old words are forgotten. People pronounce words in different ways. Even _______changes. a. language b. grammar c. vocabulary d. pronunciation 8. When you look at the English that was written six hundred years ago. You are looking at something_________. a. really strange b. completely unrecognizable c. very familiar d. fairly familiar 9. Latin lives in modern European language! In French, in Spanish, and certainly in _________! a. England b. English c. Britain d. British 10. English-speaking newcomers to some places need only days or weeks before they can understand the local English quite well. They may need much longer before they can speak _____as the local people do. a. in the same way b. as much c. as little d. in the dame place 11. We should use “English” as a countable noun, that can be _______. a. corrected b. single c. plural d. the name of a language 12. But na