英语专八复习：语言学选择题及答案（4）

　本文为大家整理了部分英语专业八级语言学选择题练习，供大家参考。

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

　A. Indo-European

　B. Sino-Tibetan

　C. Austronesian

　D. Afroasiatic

　2. 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

　3. 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

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

　A. gender markings

　B. case markings

　C. tense markings

　D. both A and B

　5. 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

　6. 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