English belongs,in a rather complicated way,to the Indo-European family __1_ includes most of the European languages and a few Asiatic ones. We don’t know __2_ the orginal speakers of the parent Indo-European language lived.Guessed about their homeland __3_ all the way from northwestern Europe __4_ central Asia.According to all the early _5__ ,they were a tall,blond,and warlike people,with a good __6_ of energy and intelligence.In their native land they had developed _7__ writing nor cities,so there is not much __8_ about how they lived when they were at home.But when they __9_ home and went out in __10_ of new lands,the Indo-European seem to have been generally successful in _11__ the countries they came to.
When a wave of them _12__ a territory already crowded,they _13__ the original population._14__ they lost their distinctive appearance by intermarrying with the earlier inhabitants,and sometimes they also _15__ most of the features of their language.When a _16__ went to a more thinly-settled territory,they naturally _17__ their physical characteristics comparatively unchanged for a much longer time;and they were likely to preserve the _18__ features of their language also,though the two things did not always go together.
The Slavic and Celltic languages,__19_ Indian,Persian ,and some others,are of Indo-Euro-pean origin,but the three branchs with _20__ English is most concerned are the Greek,Latin,and Germanic,particularly the last.
1)    A  which      B whose           C that        D whom
2)    A  that        B which           C where      D whose
3)    A  is ranging   B range           C have ranged  D have been ranged
4)    A  into        B towards         C from       D to
5)    A  records     B recording        C tapes       D notes
6)    A  number     B great           C amount     D deal
7)    A  either      B neither          C other       D both
8)    A evidence     B points          C understanding D knowing
9)    A  leave      B would leave     C left          D were leaving
10)   A  search     B wanting        C looking       D demanding
11)   A  conquer    B conquering     C defeat        D defeating
12)   A  settled in   B settled         C settled down   D settled to
13)   A  mix with  B mixed together   C mixed with    D mix together
14)   A  on time    B from time      C by time       D in time
15)   A  give in    B gave in         C gave up      D give up
16)   A  branch    B wave          C group         D kind
17)   A  preserve   B reserve        C preserved       D reserved
18)   A  special    B particular      C distinguished    D distinctive
19)   A  as well as  B as good as      C as well           D as good
20)   A  them      B which         C the three branches  D that
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