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Q1：1.Which language did NOT have an influence on the formation of American English:

Spanish words

French words

German words

West African words

Q2：2.Which one of the following choices is NOT the factors that make American English particularly influential?

The USA’s dominance of cinema and televison

The USA’s dominance of popular music

The USA’s dominance of fashion and art

The USA’s dominance of trade and technology

Q3：3.The creation of distant American variety of English is the result of _____.

the slave trade

technological development

commercial expansion

the colonization of North America

Q4：4.The author of the first authoritative American English dictionary _____, created many changes like the “-re” endings became “-er”.

Samuel Johnson

Noah Webster

James Boswell

George Meredith

Q5：5.English is a _____language of the Indo-European family.

Anglo-saxon

Germanic

Jutes

Celtic

Q6：6.The invading Germanic tribes spoke similar languages, which we now call_____.

Old English

Middle English

Early Modern English

Late Modern English

Q7：7.Late Modern English has many more words arising from the principals except _____.

The Industrial Revolution and technology

The British Empire at its height covered one quarter of the earth's surface

The English language adopted foreign words from many countries

An orgnized effort to document and satndard English

Q8：8.Which of the following statements is not the advantage of Modern English？

single consonants represent the same sounds in the same position.

the lack of accent found in other languages

the present spelling displays European language origins and connections

an alphabet is able to adequately represent all needed sounds

Q9：9.Towards the end of_______ , a sudden and distinct change in pronounciation with vowels being pronounced shorter and shorter.

Old English

Modern English

Middle English

Early Modern English

Q10：10.Until ________, British and American English were remarkably similar with almost no variance.

17century

18century

19century

20century

Q11：11.Spelling and grammar of English became fixed during_____.

450--1100

1100--1500

1500--1800

1800--present

Q12：12.Which of the following words is what British call "Americanism" but in fact original British expression？

fall

trash

frame-up

all of the above

Q13：13.The “tele”prefix meaning “_______ ” later used to develop telephone and television was taken.

away

quite

remote

far

Q14：14.Which one of the following choices is NOT French-Old English following order of the words: cough, sought, through, thought?

coughen

secan

thurh

hoht

Q15：15.Which of the following English words has a foreign origin？

loan

tire

connection

commence