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综合自测题I I. Choose the correct words in the blankets to complete the sentences.(10%) 　 1. World languages can be grouped into roughly_________(300/500) language families on the basis of similarities in the basic word stock and grammar. 2. He surviving languages accordingly fall into_______(ten/eight) principal groups, which can be grouped into an Eastern set and Western set. 3. Old English refers to the language used between__________(450-1150/550-1250). 4. Middle English lasted for more than three hundred years_________________ (1250-1600/1150-1500). 5. Modern English began with the establishment of printing in England, and it can be subdivided into_________(two/three) more stages. 6. Words of Old English were________ (full of endings/ of leveled endings). 7. Modern English is a (n) ___________(synthetic/analytic) language. 8. The four major foreign contributors to English vocabulary in earlier times are Latin, French, Scandinavian and ________________(Greek/ German). 9. Old English vocabulary was in essence Germanic with a __________(small/large) quantity of words borrowed from Latin and Scandinavian. 10. Middle English absorbed a tremendous number of foreign words but with________ (little/much) change in word endings. 　 II. Decide whether the following statements are true or false and write your answers in the brackets.( 10%) (?? )1. Motivation explains the connection between the linguistic form and its meaning. (?? )2. Grammatical meaning or a word includes part of speech, tense meaning, and stylistic coloring. ( ??)3. The origins of the words are a key factor in distinguishing homonyms from polysemants. (?? )4. Most homonyms are words that are the same in spelling, but differ in sound and meaning. (?? )5. The marked term of each pair of antonyms covers the sense of the unmarked term. (?? )6. Extra-linguistic context is the supplementary verbal context. (?? )7.small-sized dictionaries are called pocket dictionaries, which are convenient but of li