电大变化中英语期末复习资料小抄.docVIP

电大《变化中的英语 Multiple Choice1. When we speak of languages as living or dead we mean the language _B ____. A. are not used now. B. have living speakers or not. C. do not work now. D. are actually living or dead 2. Standard English refers to the English _____A___. A. of writing. Bewitch British people use . C. which American people use. D. which British and American people use 3. RP refers to _____D____. A.net work English. B. General American. C.BBC English and General American. D. Educated Southern British English 4. When we say RP, we mean it is a(n) ___A_____. A. variety of spoken English. B. variety of written English. C. regional dialect. D. accent. 5. About some special terms, the statement that __C_____ is NOT true. A. a language is the major means of human communication. B. a dialect is a variety of a language. C. a variety is a language distinct from others. D. the term accent has to do only with the sound of the language 6. In Activity 5, you were asked to listen to some regional varieties of English, but ____D__ is NOT included. A. Cornwall. B. London cockney. C. Northumberland. D. Midland 7. About language change, the statement that __B____ 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 8. When you meet some old, native speakers of English who are hard to understand, you know, it is probably because ________B___. 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 9. Dialects refer to __A____________. 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 10. New words are from ___D_____. A. old words used with new meaning. B. Words made up by pronouncing t