1.Which language did NOT have an influence on the formation of American English:
Spanish words
French words
German words
West African words
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
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
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
5.English is a _____language of the Indo-European family.
Anglo-saxon
Germanic
Jutes
Celtic
6.The invading Germanic tribes spoke similar languages, which we now call_____.
Old English
Middle English
Early Modern English
Late Modern English
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
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
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
10.Until ________, British and American English were remarkably similar with almost no variance.
17century
18century
19century
20century
11.Spelling and grammar of English became fixed during_____.
450--1100
1100--1500
1500--1800
1800--present
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
13.The “tele”prefix meaning “_______ ” later used to develop
telephone and television was taken.
14.Which one of the following choices is NOT
French-Old English following order of the words: cough, sought, through,
thought?
15.Which of the following English words has a foreign origin？
loan
tire
connection
commence