6. Speaker A: I’m out of petrol.

Speaker B: There’s a garage round the corner.

Speaker B is violating the maxim of _______.

A. quantity                                                       B. quality

C. relation                                                        D. manner

7. _______, vowels tend to be nasalized before nasal consonants because it is difficult to time the lowering of the velum to produce nasality with the consonant articulation.

A. Psychologically                                            B. Sociologically

C. Culturally                                                     D. Physiologically

8. A typical example of a _______ community is an ethnic ghetto where most, if not all, of its inhabitants are either immigrants or children of immigrants.

A. diglossic                                                      B. bilingual

C. pidginized                                                    D. creolized

9. Which of the following mental functions is NOT under the control of the right hemisphere in most people?

A. Holistic reasoning.                                        B. Temporal ordering.

C. Visual and spatial skills.                                 D. Recognition of patterns.

10. Which of the following choices CANNOT be considered as individual learner factors affecting the acquisition of a second language?

A. Aptitude.                                                      B. Motivation.

C. Interference.                                                D. Personality.