Ⅰ. Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that best completes the statement and put the letter in the bracket. (30%)
1. Words of the basic word stock denote the most common things and phenomena of the world around us. Which of the following words is related to the natural phenomena? ( )
A. Father. B. Fire.
C. Evil. D. Old.
2. The differences between sound and form are due to the following EXCEPT ______. ( )
A. the fact of more phonemes than letters in English
B. stabilization of spelling by printing
C. influence of the work of scribes
D. innovations made by linguists
3. There are______ functional words in the following sentence: It is fun to play with children. ( )
A. 3 B. 4
C. 5 D. 6
4. The surviving languages fall into eight principal groups. Balto-Slavic, Indo-Iranian, Armenian and Albanian belong to the set. ( )
A. Eastern B. Southern
C. Western D. Northern
5. With the growth of______, British tentacles began stretching out to every corner of the globe, thus enabling English to absorb words from all major languages of the world. ( )
A. civilization B. revolution
C. colonization D. industrialization
6. Which of the following statements is NOT true? ( )
A. English is more closely related to German than French.
B. Scandinavian languages refer to Icelandic, Norwegian, Danish and Swedish.
C. Old English vocabulary was in essence Germanic with a small quantity of words borrowed from Latin and Scandinavian.
D. Middle English absorbed a tremendous number of foreign words but with little change in word endings.
7. The word “recollection” comprises ______morpheme(s). ( )
A. 1 B. 2
C. 3 D. 4
8. The following words have inflectional affixes EXCEPT______. ( )
A. happier B. worker
C. harder D. taller
9. Which of the following words is a root? ( )
A. International. B. Nation.
C. National. D. Internationalists.
10. The expansion of vocabulary in modern English depends chiefly on ______. ( )
A. borrowing B. semantic change
C. word-formation D. reviving archaic words
