大学MOOC 大学英语A(二)(南京航空航天大学金城学院)1455405169 最新慕课完整章节测试答案
I 国际通用语英语的故事 （Lingua Franca The Story of English)
Unit 1 单元测试
1、单选题：
1. English is an official language of more than ________ sovereign states.
选项：
A: 65
B: 70
C: 75
D: 80
答案: 【 75】
2、单选题：
2. In number of native speakers and language learners, English is the ________ language in the world.
选项：
A: first
B: second
C: third
D: fourth
答案: 【 first】
3、单选题：
3. The most native speakers of English live in _________.
选项：
A: Britain
B: the United States
C: Canada
D: Australia
答案: 【 the United States 】
4、单选题：
4. English belongs to the _________ branch of the Indo-European language family.
选项：
A: Celtic
B: Romanic
C: Germanic
D: Baltic
答案: 【 Germanic 】
5、单选题：
5. Old English was mainly derived from the dialects of _________.
选项：
A: ancient Celtic people
B: Anglo-Saxons
C: Romans
D: French
答案: 【 Anglo-Saxons】
6、单选题：
6. In 1588, England defeated the famous fleet Armada from __________.
选项：
A: France
B: Germany
C: Spain
D: Italy
答案: 【 Spain 】
7、单选题：
7. In 1604，the first English dictionary was published by _________.
选项：
A: Thomas Nash
B: Samuel Johnson
C: Edmund Spenser
D: Francis Bacon
答案: 【 Samuel Johnson】
8、单选题：
8. The sudden vowel shift in the history of English helped to shape ________ English.
选项：
A: Old
B: Middle
C: Early Modern
D: Late Modern
答案: 【 Early Modern 】
9、单选题：
9. William Shakespeare is a great writer in the _____________ language.
选项：
A: French
B: English
C: Spanish
D: Italian
答案: 【 English 】
10、单选题：
10. Shakespeare was born in a small town in _______________.
选项：
A: England
B: Scotland
C: Wales
D: Northern Ireland
答案: 【 England 】
11、单选题：
11. Shakespeare wrote 154 ___________ and some verses in his lifetime.
选项：
A: plays
B: sonnets
C: novels
D: poems
答案: 【