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《变化中的英语》期末复习练习题及参考答案
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 with new meaning.
B. Words made up by pronouncing the initial letters of several words
C. words borrowed from other languages
D. all of the above
正确答案: D
11. Rasselas was written in 18th century by _______________.
A. Mark Twain
B. Samuel Johnson
C. WordsworthD.
D. Shakespeare
正确答案: B
12. The Tempest was first printed in 1623, written by ____________.
A. Mark Twain
B. Samuel Johnson
C. Shakespeare
D. Geoffrey Chaucer
正确答案: C
13. The Canterbury Tales was a famous collection of stories in verse, written by ___________.
A. Geoffrey Chaucer
B. Shakespeare
C. Bernard Shaw
D. Samuel Johnson
正确答案: A
14. Angles and Saxons were _______________.
A. Latin-speaking Romans
B. French-speaking Normans
C. Scandinavian people
D. Native British people
正确答案: C
15. The final conquer of the British Isles was in _________________.
A.1st century B.C. by the Scandinavian people
B.5th century A.D. by the Normans
C.11th century A.D. by the Normans
D. World War II by Germans
正确答案: C
16. Standard English can be pronounced ___________.
A. only using a Received Pronunciation
B. only in the accent of educated North American Speakers
C. either in educated southern British accent or educated North American accent
D. with a variety of accents
正确答案: D
17. Standard English started in _________________.
A. the South East of England
B. the east of England
C. the south of England
D. London, Oxford and Cambridge
正确答案: A
18. Standard English started in ______ century.
A.5th
B.11th
C.14th
D.15th
正确答案: C
19. Standard English started spread all over the country because _______________.
A. English was allowed to be taught in schools
B. Geoffrey Chaucer wrote in English
C. William Caxton set up a printing press in 1475, and printed books
D. All of the above
正确答案: D
20. The core of English lexicon is ______________.
A .French words
B. Latin and Greek words
C. The words brought back by the overseas
D. Of Germanic origin
正确答案: D
21. When you recognize a word and know what it means, you have a _______ knowledge of it.
A. receptive
B. productive
C. descriptive
D. prescriptive
正确答案: A
22. Talking to people needs _________ knowledge and practice.
A. receptive
B. productive
C. descriptive
D. prescriptive
正确答案: B
23. Received Pronunciation ____________.
A. is a regional accent
B. belongs to south East of England
C. is accepted and understood worldwide
D. is the same thing as Standard English
正确答案: C
24. When a teacher corrects a student’s mistakes ,he is doing _________ teaching.
A. receptive
B. productive
C. descriptive
D. prescriptive
正确答案: D
25. English is not alone, not unique in being an international language. There are other international languages, such as ____________.
A. Spanish
B. Swedish.
C. Japanese
D. Danish
正确答案: A
26. An American teacher, who made an especially important contribution to the American way of spelling some English words, he is ____________.
A. Noah Webster
B. Mark Twin
C. Webster Merriam
D. Thomas McCauley
正确答案: A
27. When India was independent, the New Constitution recognized as official languages ______ languages out of about 200 in use.
A.2
B.3
C.5
D.14
正确答案: D
28. Most educated Indians speak _________ languages.
A.1
B.2
C.3
D.4
正确答案: C
29. Britain was an imperial power for about _________ .
A.80 years
B.100 years.
C.2 centuries
D.3 centuries
正确答案: D
30. By the discovery of the New World, it is meant the discovery and settlement in _______.
A. Australia
B. North America
C. India
D. South East Asia
正确答案: B
31. In the three Circles of English language users, _______ belong to the Outer Circle.
A. native English speaking countries
B. colonial countries of Britain and USA
C. countries using English as a foreign language
D. countries using English as an international language
正确答案: B
32. About the use of English worldwide in information age, the statement that _______ is NOT true.
A. the number of users of English is important
B. who the users of English are and what they do with it are important
C. the label ”Information Age” is often given to the end of this century
D .the most important language for communicative use at the scientific and technological developments in English
正确答案: C
33. Among the main International languages invented or simplified, _________ is the most famous and successful.
A. Esperanto
B. Interlingua
C. Ido
D. Basic English (Nuclear English)
正确答案: A
34. About the disadvantages of English as a global language, the statement that _________ is NOT true.
A. the English grammar and sounds are difficult, and vocabulary is too large
B. the English has inconsistencies
C. English belongs to a different language family
D. English is deeply rooted in the culture, customs, literature of UK and USA
正确答案: D
35. Languages are like tools, ____________
A. as they develop and become complex , so they become powerful and effective.
B. They all evolve from simple to complex form.
C. They are all like living organism.
D. But tools may evolve, languages do not .
正确答案: D
36. The international use of English is because ____________
A. English is more developed and complex. B.
B. English is more flexible and adaptable.
C. Of political, cultural and economic reasons.
D. All of the above.
正确答案: C
37. Languages re like living organism, _______
A. they all evolve from simple from to complex form..
B. They are made y human beings and used for human purposes.
C. They all change, but languages do not really evolve.
D. Only A and B.
正确答案: C
38. The applications of science include ______________.
A. international travel
B. international travel and tourism
C. medical technology and entertainment
D. all of the above
正确答案: D
39. Science and technology cannot do without symbolic systems. Symbolic systems ________
A. are necessary for thinking and for sharing and recording the results of thinking.
B. Include language
C. Include mathematics
D. All of the above
正确答案: D
40. The dominance of English in science is ___________
A. the result of US political supremacy and scientific achievements
B. because English is much more suitable than other languages.
C. The language of the United Nations.
D. The language of the British empire.
正确答案: A
41. The special difficulty of scientific English for the readers is that ___________
A. they assume much shared knowledge
B. the style is impersonal and remote
C. the papers are about abstractions.
D. All of the above.
正确答案: A
42. English is the language of international air traffic control because __________
A. natural languages are full of ambiguity, but English is an exception.
B. English reduces ambiguity
C. Any uncertainty of the language used would be disastrous in air so English is the only choice
D. None of the above
正确答案: D
43. Of the varieties of English that are designed to avoid ambiguity, the following statement that _____________ is NOT TRUE.
A. the English of international air traffic control is used by all ground control staff and flight crew.
B. Sea-speak is used internationally in ship-to-shore communication, and it is similar to Police-speak.
C. Jargon, argot and slang arte also designed by and for very special groups of users.
D. One of the above statements is not true.
正确答案: D
44.. Communicative approach is ____________.
A. a view of ELT that put first understanding and being understood by another person
B. learning by constantly doing dialogue practice
C. a course designed to match the future work and needs of learners
D. a way of learning and teaching that teachers and students communicate with each other
正确答案: A
45. Error analysis is _______________.
A. way of learning by studying common mistakes in order not to make any mistakes
B. teaching in the belief that mistakes are necessary to learning and useful to teachers
C. a way of teaching that teachers correct the students’ mistakes in the exercises whenever they occur
D. a research method in order to see how good the students have learned
正确答案: B
46. ELT is the short form of ______________.
A. English learning and teaching
B. English language teaching
C. Elementary learning and teaching
D. Elementary language teaching
正确答案: B
47. The most important factor that reinforces the international role of English is ___________.
A. television
B. travel and transport
C. entertainments
D. developments in IT
正确答案: D
48. IT is the shout form of ___________.
A. international net
B. international tourism (travel)
C. information technology
D. information transformation
正确答案: C
49. The term ”interlanguage” is used for ___________
A. languages that are understood internationally
B. languages that are internal to a country
C. the languages of learners who has only partial control of a language
D. languages that change rapidly
正确答案: C
50. The New Englishes can be called _______.But their meanings are quite different.
A. regional varieties of English
B. emerging English
C. local standard Englishes
D. all of the above
正确答案: D
51. Of the New Englishes , the following statement that ______ is NOT TRUE.
A. they arte regular and can be described.
B. They are easily understood locally, but not so easily elsewhere
C. They change very fast and are unstable and unacceptable
D. They have many mistakes or deviations from standard English.
正确答案: C
52. According to the Quirk view, some teachers in schools in Britain have felt unable to correct their students’ faulty English, because they __________
A. were afraid of making students feel humiliated and resentful.
B. Were uncertain what was, and was not, correct.
C. Did not want to spend time correcting the students’ mistakes.
D. Thought students would not learn from the correction of their mistakes.
正确答案: A
53. Local varieties are not so difficult to learn as Standard English because ___________
A. the grammar is simpler.
B. Mistakes do not matter so much.
C. The vocabulary is not so large
D. Students can feel that the language belongs to their country and their culture.
正确答案: D
54. The Quirk view is a(n) ___________ view.
A. deficit
B. liberation
C. open
D. correct
正确答案: A
55. In the Kachru view, the local English _________
A. should be taught, learned and respected
B. is not less good than the Standard English
C. is not a failure of the education system
D. all of the above
正确答案: D
56. In quirk view, people learn English mainly for ___________ use.
A. regional
B. national
C. international
D. global
正确答案: C

57. Language changes because language use is a creative process. Only _______ is not the result of linguistic creativity.
A. Pidgins
B. Creoles
C. Lingua franca
D. interlanguage
正确答案: C
58 From the learner’s point of view, _________ is not the disadvantage of learning a local standard English.
A. Local Standards are useful only within the region
B. Local Standards offer limited access to written materials
C. Local Standards are not well respected outside the local community
D. Local Standards are easier to learn, but they still need time and efforts.
正确答案: D
59 Language learning represents a big investment of time and effort. All learning is associated with ______________.
A. an opportunity cost.
B. The students’ desire
C. The learners’ enjoying their education
D. The decision of the government’s education committee
正确答案: A
60 Saying that all languages are equal, it means that ____________
A. all languages deserve respect.
B. All languages must be taken seriously.
C. languages serve perfectly well the purposes of those the use them.
D. All of the above.
正确答案: D
61. Saying that all languages are equal is rather like saying that people are all equal. It means that ________
A. people are actually all equal, and so re all languages.
B. People are actually all equal, but all languages are not.
C. People are actually not equal, but all languages are equal.
D. People are actually not equal, nor are all languages.
正确答案: D
62. Mr. Fletcher the language teacher said, G