[单项选择]The English language is used_________.
A. for only one reason that English is becoming an international language
B. mainly by people from the American continent and the Europe
C. as an official language in an international conference on the American culture
D. in science and technology as well as in cultural and historical studies of all the countries in the world

[单项选择]English language belongs to
A. Indo-European Family.
B. Sino-Tibetan Family.
C. Austronesian Family.
D. Afroasiatic Family.

[单项选择]The English people and the English language were born from the union of（）.
A. the Angles and the Saxons
B. Germanic conquerors and the Norman French
C. Danes or Vikings and the Norman French
D. Norman conquerors and the defeated Anglo-Saxons

[单项选择]English language publications in China are growing in volume and （）.
A. circulation
B. rotation
C. circumstance
D. appreciation

[单项选择]Picasso quoted the example of the English language to maintain that __________.

[单项选择]An American Dictionary of the English Language was published in 1828 by ______.
A. Samuel Johnson
B. Noah Webster
C. Daniel Webster
D. Daniel Defoe

[单项选择]Elitist attitude toward the English language can be found in the following places except for
A. America and India
B. Britain and Pakistan
C. India and Australia
D. the Arctic area

[单项选择]English is the language most commonly spoken throughout Canada, EXCEPT FOR the province of______.
A. Quebec
B. Nova Scotia
C. New Brunswick
D. Alberta

[单项选择]The history of the English language is divided into three periods: Old English, Middle English and______.
A. contemporary English
B. modern English
C. later English
D. young English

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Passage Four The English language we know today is about six hundred years old. For half that time, English was just the language of the people living in England. The modern English language grew by about the year 1 400. Now English is the most widely spoken language in the world. It is one of the working languages at international meetings, business, science and other fields. The differences between American English and British English are not very great. Written English is more or less the same in both Britain and America, though there are some spelling differences. For example, centre, licence, colour and travelled are spelt as center, license, color and traveled in American English. In America "cock, rubber, iii, holiday, lorry, post... "are called "rooster, eraser, sick, vacation, truck, mail..." But people from the two countries can still understand each other easily. There are only a very small number of differences in grammar between American En
A. Rooster, eraser, color, truck , mail
B. Vacation, iii, travelled, licence, center
C. Mail, traveled, sick, color, license
D. Sick, truck, color, rooster, post