1. The goal of ________ is to explore the nature of language variation and language use among a variety of speech communities and different social situations.

A. psycholinguistics

B. sociolinguistics

C. historical linguistics

D. general linguistics

2. The situation in which two or more languages are used side by side is referred to as ________.

A. diglossia

B. bilingualism

C. pidginization

D. blending

3. A linguistic ________ refers to a word or expression that is prohibited by the “polite” society from general use.

A. slang

B. euphemism

C. jargon

D. taboo

4. A ________ is a mild, indirect or less offensive word or expression substituted when a speaker or writer fears more direct wording might be harsh, unpleasantly direct, or offensive.

A. linguistic taboo

B. euphemism

C. address term

D. pidgin

5. In normal situations, ________ speakers tend to use more prestigious forms than their ________ counterparts with the same social background.

A. female; male

B. male; female

C. old; young

D. young; old

6. It is ________ for individuals to be a perfect user of two languages in a full range of situations.

A. common

B. rare

C. impossible

D. none of the above

参考答案：B A D B A B

.7 Chinese, the most popular language of the world, belongs to the ________ family.

A. Indo-European

B. Sino-Tibetan

C. Austronesian

D. Afroasiatic

8. An important set of extensive sound changes affecting vowels, known as the Great Vowel Shift, occurred at the end of the ________.

A. Old English period

B. Middle English period

C. Modern English period

D. Middle ages

9. The most widely-spread morphological changes in the historical development of English are the loss and addition of ________.

A. prefixes

B. suffixes

C. affixes

D. case markings

10. The most dramatic morphological loss concerns the loss of ________.

A. gender markings

B. case markings

C. tense markings

D. both A and B

11. The most vigorous and on-going change in the historical development of a language is the change in its ________.

A. sound

B. vocabulary

C. morphological system

D. syntax

12. The most obvious way in which Modern English differs lexically from Old English is in the number of borrowed words from other languages, particular from ________.

A. Latin

B. French

C. Greek

D. German

参考答案：B B C D B A