南师大2018-2019上英语史试卷期中试卷及参考答案.doc

2018-2019上英语史期中试卷

Date_________ClassSchoolNo.Name___Score___

I.Indicatethefollowingstatementstrueorfalse(10%)

1.InBritain,theprestigiousculturalpositionthatLatinenjoyintheRenaissancewasasoverwhelmingasthatNormanFrenchoftheearlierperiodheld.

2.ManyEnglishmorphologicalchangesoccurredundertheinfluenceofforeignlanguages,especiallyFrench.

3.GendermarkinginOldEnglishwasrelatedtothesexofthereferentconcerned.

4.OldEnglishhadanelaboratesystemofcasemarkingthroughovertmorphologicalchanges,which,consequently,alloweditswordordertobesomewhatmorevariablethanthatofModernEnglish,whichhasamuchweakercasemarkingsystem.

5.InthehistoricaldevelopmentofEnglish,FrenchloanwordsdidnotalwaysreplacedOldEnglishwords,butinmanyinstancesexistedalongsideofthenativeEnglishvocabulary.

II.Therearefourchoicesfollowingeachstatement.Markthechoicethatcanbestcompletethestatement(10%).

1.Thesyntacticdistinctionbetweenthemainverbsandtheauxiliaryverbsmostprobablyexistedinthe_____________.

A.1419B.55A.D.C.1066D.1616

2.TheLondonspeechthatwasillustratedinShakespeare’swritingwasgenerallytermed_____.

A.MiddleEnglishB.EarlyModernEnglishC.EarlyOldEnglishD.OldEnglish

3.ThemostobviouswayinwhichModernEnglishdifferslexicallyfromOldEnglishisinthenumberof__________.

A.borrowedwordsB.createdwordsC.syntacticrulesD.soundloss

4.Animportantsetofextensivesoundchangesaffectingvowels,knownastheGreatVowelShift,occurredattheendof___________.

A.OldEnglishperiodB.MiddleEnglishperiodC.ModernEnglishperiodD.MiddleAges

5.The_____________isthefirstandmostwidelyinvestigatedlanguagefamilyoftheworld.

A.Indo-EuropeanB.Sino-TibetanC.AustronesianD.Afroasiatic

6.__________Englishha