[单项选择]Besides French words, English also absorbed as many as 2,500 words of ______ in the Middle English period.


A. Dutch origin
B. Danish origin
C. Latin origin
D. Greek origin

[单项选择]Our English professor is a man of Italian ______.


A. birth
B. origin
C. descent
D. breed

[单项选择]English words are not always spelled （）.
A. in the way they sound
B. in the way of their sounds
C. as they're sounding
D. the way they sound

[单项选择]What do the French writer's words really mean


A. Writers are usually interested in fashion.
B. Fashion magazines can provide writers with plenty of materials.
C. Fashion can reflect the life style of a society.
D. Fashion is the prime component of a society.

[单项选择]English words are not always spelt ________.


A. as the way they sound
B. the way that they sound
C. the way they sound
D. they sound

[单项选择]In Canada, French and English are coequal official language except in ______, where French is the sole official language.


A. Quebec
B. Montreal
C. Vancouver
D. Ottawa

[单项选择]In English Civil War, also called the Puritan Revolution, a famous general _____ defeated the king at Naseby in 1645.


A. Cromwell
B. Montford
C. Robert
D. Richard

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I was raised speaking English, but I also spoke Spanish at home. When I went to school for the first time, I was enrolled in ESL classes—classes for English as a Second Language. I was also put into the Limited English Proficiency Program. In all these classes, I always got the highest grades. I was the best reader and speaker. There was no reason for me to be in any of those classes.
When my parents discovered that I was ha those classes instead of in regular classes with other English-speaking students, they went to the school administration to complain about the discrimination. The school had nothing to say. My parents tried to get me out of the ESI classes, but the school fought very hard to keep me there. And then we found out why—for every student the school had in the ESI. and the Limited English Proficiency Program, they would receive $ 400. This was pretty devastating (令人震惊的). The school’s only excuse for keeping me there was that I lived in a S
A. an ESL class
B. regular English classes
C. the Limited English Proficiency Program
D. the class for non-native English speakers

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She was French; he was English; they had just moved to London from Paris. When he found out about her affair, she begged for a reconciliation. He was more ruthless: the same afternoon, he filed for divorce in France, one of the stingiest jurisdictions in Europe for the non-earning spouse and where adultery affects the court’s ruling. Had she filed first in England her conduct would have been irrelevant, and she would have had a good chance of a large share of the marital assets, and even maintenance for life.
International divorce is full of such dramas and anomalies, so the natural response of policymakers is to try to make things simpler and more predictable. But the biggest attempt in recent years to do just that, in a European agreement called Rome Ⅲ, has just been shelved. Instead, several EU countries are now pressing ahead with their own harmonisation deal. Many wonder if it will work any better.
At issue is the vexed question of which country’s
A. Divorce filed in England will be advantageous
B. France stipulates rigid laws towards divorce
C. In Europe international divorce cases always encounter the problem that which country’s law is applicable
D. International marriages shall be discouraged due to the complexity in divorce affairs

[单项选择]The department also prepares English and Modern Languages graduates intending to teach in secondary schools on the one year PGCE course, on which drama is offered as a ______ subject.
A. subsidiary
B. subordinate
C. minor
D. marginal

[单项选择]No one knows how man learned to make words. Perhaps he began by making sounds like those made by animals. Perhraps he grunted like a pig when he lifted something heavy. Perhaps he made sounds like those he heard all around him water splashing, bees humming, a stone falling to the ground. Somehow he learned to make words. As the centuries went by, he made more and more new words. This is what we mean by language.
People living in different countries made different kinds of words. Today there are about fifteen hundred different languages in the world. Each contains many thousands of words. A very large English dictionary for example, contains four or five hundred thousand words. But we do not need all these. Before you leave school, you will learn only a few thousand of them.

Man could make sounds like those he heard all around him.
A. Right.
B. Wrong.
C. Doesn’t say.