南师大2018-2019上英语史试卷期中试卷及参考答案.docVIP

2018-2019 上英语史期中试卷 Date _________Class School No. Name___ Score___ I. Indicate the following statements true or false (10%) 1. In Britain, the prestigious cultural position that Latin enjoy in the Renaissance was as overwhelming as that Norman French of the earlier period held. Many English morphological changes occurred under the influence of foreign languages, especially French. Gender marking in Old English was related to the sex of the referent concerned. Old English had an elaborate system of case marking through overt morphological changes, which, consequently, allowed its word order to be somewhat more variable than that of Modern English, which has a much weaker case marking system. 5. In the historical development of English, French loan words did not always replaced Old English words, but in many instances existed alongside of the native English vocabulary. There are four choices following each statement. Mark the choice that can best complete the statement(10%). The syntactic distinction between the main verbs and the auxiliary verbs most probably existed in the _____________. 2. The London speech that was illustrated in Shakespeare ’s writing was generally termed _____. A. Middle English B. Early Modern English C. Early Old English D. Old English The most obvious way in which Modern English differs lexically from Old English is in the number of __________. An important set of extensive sound changes affecting vowels, known as the Great Vowel Shift, occurred at the end of ___________. A. Old English period B. Middle English period C. Modern English period D. Middle Ages 5. The _____________ is the first and most widely investigated language family of the world. A. Indo-European B. Sino-Tibetan C. Austronesian D. Afroasiatic 6. __________ English had been deeply influenced by Norman French in vocabulary and grammar. A. Modern B. Middle C. Old D. both A and B 7. _________ belongs to Indo-European language family. A. English