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the history of Engish Langage

the history of Engish Langage

作者: 大荒之木 | 来源:发表于2018-04-05 23:59 被阅读0次

    If music be the food of love, play on.--William Shakespear

    如果音乐是爱情的食粮,请继续演奏吧。

    1. When the earliest inhabitants of Britain said “ up yours Caesar 去你的,凯撒!”, they did not expect that one of the legacies of the conqueror was the influence of his_________ Language upon local speech.

    A. French

    B. Egyptian

    C. Chinese

    D. Latin

    2. The ________ Vocabulary was more extensively used in daily life, as it was mainly words for simple everyday necessities.

    A. Anglo-Saxon

    B. Viking

    C. French

    D. Latin

    3. Four of our days of the week were named in honor of ________ gods.

    A. Anglo-Saxon

    B. Viking

    C. French

    D. Latin

    4. The________ came along with their action-man words, like drag, ransack, thrust and die.

    A. Anglo-Saxon

    B. Vikings

    C. French

    D. Latin

    5. ________ invades England in 1066., bringing across the strait the French Language like “judge, jury, evidence, and justice”

    A. William Shakespeare

    B. William the Conqueror

    C. Caesar

    D. Roman Emperor

    6. English took over as the language of power after ________ .

    A. Roman Conquest

    B. The Hundred Years’ War

    C. The Rose War

    D. The Civil War

    7. About________ new words and phrases were invented by William Shakespeare.

    A. 2000

    B. 1000

    C. 1500

    D. 10000

    8. “Eyeball,  puppy dogs, flesh and blood, breaking the ice” were invented by ________ .

    A. William Shakespeare

    B. William the Conqueror

    C. Caesar

    D. Roman Emperor

    9. “A leopard cannot change its spots” is a phrase first found in________

    A. King Lear

    B. Paradise Lost

    C. Essays on Criticism

    D. Gulliver's Travels

    10. The English words “ nugget, boomerang” derive their origin from ________ .

    A. Australia

    B. China

    C. America

    D. New Zealand   

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