「南师大20zz-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 _Class School No. Name_ Score_I. Indicate the following statements true or false (10%)1. In Britain, the prestigious cultural position that Latin enjoy in the Renaissance was as overwhelming as that Norman French of the earlier period held. 2. Many English morphological changes occurred under the influence of foreign languages, especially French.3. Gender marking in Old English was related to the sex of the referent concerned.4. Old English had an elaborate system of case marking through overt morphological changes, which, consequently, allowed its word order to be somewhat more variable than that of Modern English, which has a much weaker case marking system.5. In the historical development of English, French loan words did not always replaced Old English words, but in many instances existed alongside of the native English vocabulary. II. There are four choices following each statement. Mark the choice that can best complete the statement(10%).1. The syntactic distinction between the main verbs and the auxiliary verbs most probably existed in the _.A. 1419 B. 55 A.D. C. 1066 D. 16162. The London speech that was illustrated in Shakespeares writing was generally termed _.A. Middle English B. Early Modern English C. Early Old English D. Old English3. The most obvious way in which Modern English differs lexically from Old English is in the number of _. A. borrowed words B. created words C. syntactic rules D. sound loss4. An important set of extensive sound changes affecting vowels, known as the Great Vowel Shift, occurred at the end of _.A. Old English period B. Middle English period C. Modern English period D. Middle Ages5. The _ is the first and most widely investigated language family of the world.A. Indo-European B. Sino-Tibetan C. Austronesian D. Afroasiatic6. _ English had been deeply influenced by Norman French in vocabulary and grammar.A. Modern B. Middle C. Old D. both A and B7. _ belongs to Indo-European language family.A. English B. German C, French D. All of them8. Old English dates back to the mid-fifth century when Anglo-Saxons, the speaker of _ invaded the British Isles from Northern Europe. A. Englisc B. Norman French C. Latin D. Norse9. In 1250, the official language in England was _.A. Old English B. Old Norse C. Celtic D. Middle English10. Shakespearean English belongs to _ English.A. Old B. Middle C. Early Modern D. Late ModernIII. Fill in the blanks(30%).1. Old English is one of the _ group of Indo-European languages, and is sometimes referred to as _. 2. There were four distinct dialects of Old English: Northumbrian, Mercia, _ and _. 3. With the Norman conquest, there was a large influx of _ words. 4. The _ loanwords that survive into Modern English are mostly everyday words. 5. In Old English, vowels in unstressed syllables should still be _. 6. In OE, when the letters s, f, , and appear between vowels or other voiced sounds then they are _, and in other positions, including the beginning and end of words, they are _. 7. The single most important characteristic of Old English verbs: they conjugate by adding _ to a stem, and the most common kind of suffix: _. 8. In Old English there are four cases, they are _, _, _and _ cases.9. We must note two parts of a Old English word that: the _and the _. 10. Middle English is the name given to the English language roughly from the _ to the _ centuries.11. In the year of _, led by William the Conqueror, these gallicized Vikings, the _, attacked, conquered, and ruled England (and still ruled northern France). 12. England became became trilingual:_, _ and _. 13. _was introduced into England, and removed the standard (Wessex) dialect of _and its role in education. 14. Middle English retains two separate noun-ending patterns from Old English: the _ plural form has survived into Modern English, while the _ form is rare. 15. In Middle English, indefinite article (a/an) derived from numeral _ .IV. Indicate what kind of sound change has taken place in the following words (10%).(1) nicht nixt nightV. Rewrite the following sentences (10%)(1) If your messenger find him not there.VI. Writing (30%).How do you understand the course of the History of the English language?I. Indicate the following statements true or false (10%)1. F 2. T 3. F 4. T 5. T II. There are four choices following each statement. Mark the choice that can best complete the statement (40%).1. D. 2. B. 3. A. 4. B. 5. A. 6. B. 7. D. 8. A. 9. D. 10. C.III. Fill in the blanks(30%).1. Germanic, Anglo-Saxon 2. Kentish, Wessex3. French 4. Norse (Scandinavian)5. pronounced 6. voiced, voiceless7. Suffix, case ending 8. Nominative, accusative, genitive, dative9. Stem, case ending 10. 11th, 15th11. 1066, Normans 12. French, English, Latin13. French, Old English 14. -s, -en15. oneIV. nicht nixt night , x is lost, i is chang