Test 5
I. Multiple choices
1. The Indo-European language family consists of________.
A. all the languages in Europe and India
B. all the languages in India and some languages in Europe.
C. most of the languages of Europe, the Near East, and India.
D. Some of the languages of Europe and all the languages of the Near East
2. The prehistoric Indo-European parent language is thought to be ______.
A. A highly inflected language.
B. A highly developed language.
C. A very difficult language.
D. A language of leveled endings.
3. The Eastern set of Indo-European language family includes such languages as _____.
A. Polish, Welsh and Hindi
B. English, French and Russian
C. German, Persian and Irish
D. Armenian, Albanian and Bulgarian
4. The Germanic family consists of the four European languages: __________.
A. Slovenian, Czech, Romany and Italic
B. Norwegian, Icelandic, Danish and Swedish
C. Scottish, Irish, Welsh and Breton
D. Portuguese, Italian, English and German
5. _________ only made a small contribution to the English vocabulary.
A. Latin B. Celtic C. Danish D. Spanish
6. The first peoples known to inhabit what is now England are ________.
A. Anglo-Saxons B. French speaking Normans
C. Celts D. Jutes
7. English is more closely related to ____________.
A.German than French.
B.French to German
C.Welsh than German
D.Irish than Dutch
8. The most important mode of vocabulary development in present-day English is the creation of new words by means of _______.
A. translation-loans B. semantic loans
C. word formation D. borrowings
9. Old English vocabulary was in essence ________ with a small quantity of words borrowed from Latin and Scandinavian.
A. Celtic B. Germanic C. Roman D. Irish
10. English has evolved from ___________.
A. an analytic language to a synthetic language
B. a Celtic language to a British language
C. analytic language to a less inflectional language
D. a synthetic language to an analytic language
II. Decide whether the following statements are true or false.
1. English language is the language of the early inhabitants of the British Isles.
2. Old English was a language of full endings while Middle English was one of leveled endings.
3. Modern English began with the establishment of printing in England.
4. In modern English period, borrowing is no longer an important channel of vocabulary expansion.
5. In earlier stages of English, French, Latin, Greek and Scandinavian were the major contributors to the expansion of English vocabulary.
6. The beginning of the Middle English Period was marked by the Norman Conquest which brought many Latin words into the English language.
7. In the Middle English period, Wycliff and Shakespeare made great contributions to the elevation of the social status of the English language.
8. Old English has a vocabulary of about 20,000 to 90,000 words.
9. Now people generally refer to Anglo-Saxon as Modern English. glamour
10.Celtic language made great contributions to the expansion of the English vocabulary.
III. Fill in the blanks. The first letter of each word is given.
1. The Indo-European Language Family is made up of most of the languages of Europe, the Near East, and I______.
2. Old English was a highly i________ language just like modern German.
3. In the early period of Modern English, Europe saw a new upsurge of learning ancient Greek and roman classics, which is known in history as the R_________.
4. C____ refers to the formation of new words by using the existing materials.
5. A_____ refers to the jargon of criminals. Its use is confined to the sub-cultural groups, and outsiders can hardly understand it.
I. Multiple choices
1.C 2.A 3.D 4.B 5.B 6. C 7.A 8.C 9.B 10.D
II. Decide whether the following statements are true or false.
1.F 2. T 3. T 4. F 5. T 6. F 7. T 8.F 9. F 10. F
III. Fill in the blanks. The first letter of each word is given.
1. India 2. inflected 3. Renaissance 4. Creation 5. Argot
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