2019年电大变化中的英语期末复习试题资料必备必考重点.doc

PAGE PAGE 12 电大变化中的英语复习资料小抄 Section One : Multiple Choice 1. When we speak of languages as living or dead we mean the language _______. A. are not used now. B. have living speakers or not. C. do not work now. D. are actually living or dead 正确答案：B 2. Standard English refers to the English ________. A. of writing. Bewitch British people use . C. which American people use. D. which British and American people use 正确答案：A 3. RP refers to _________. A.net work English. B. General American. C.BBC English and General American. D. Educated Southern British English 正确答案：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. 正确答案：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. C. a variety is a language distinct from others. D. the term accent has to do only with the sound of the language 正确答案：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 正确答案：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 正确答案：B 8. When you meet some old, native speakers of English who are hard to understand, you know, it is probably because ___________. 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 正确答案：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 正确答案：A 10. New words are from ________. A. old words used w