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Read the following passage and choose the correct answer to complete the following passage by circling the corresponding letter A, B, C or D.
It is not easy to have a rational discussion with people about the nature of their language. They feel that the language belongs to them, and they are therefore entitled to hold (1) _____ and dried opinions about it. And when opinions differ, emotions run high. Arguments can easily (2) _____ from minor points of usage as from major educational policies. In English, the origin of many popular misconceptions (3) _____ in the work of the linguists of the eighteenth century who first attempted to codify the English grammar. (4) ____, they worked on the premise that English grammar is derived from Latin grammar and that the rules of the latter necessarily determine the former. It was this fundamental
misunderstanding that resulted (5) ______ the absurd but time-honored 'never-end-a-sentence-with-a-preposition' type of rules that many people still cling to. These days, many people (6) ______ that the Internet is the source of much unforgivable distortion of English, and that the ease and speed of email communication (7) ______ a lazy approach to writing. This is possibly a (8) ______ view: perhaps we should be more broad-minded and view such changes as potential enrichment rather than corruption of the language. Perhaps those (9) ______ argue it is only the latter are guilty of stick-in-the-mud mentality which is often not confined to their own language. The American linguist Leonard Bloomfield tells the story of a doctor who was quite firm in his view that the American language Chippewa had only a few hundred words. When Bloomfield (10) _____ to dispute the point, the doctor had no thoughts of backing down. He simply turned away and refused to listen.
1. A. high B. cut C. hung D. blow
2. A. root B. branch C. stem D. bud
3. A. lain B. laid C.lay D. lies
4. A. Unfortunately B. Luckily C. Particularly D. Especially
5. A. at B. in C. on D. through
6. A. hope B. blame C. recommend D. complain
7. A. bears B. constructs C. engenders D. invents
8. A. short-sighted B. short-cut C. short-wave D. short-tempered
9. A. they B. whose C. who D. what
10. A. failed B. attempted C. stopped D. used
It is not easy to have a rational discussion with people about the nature of their language. They feel that the language belongs to them, and they are therefore entitled to hold (1) _____ and dried opinions about it. And when opinions differ, emotions run high. Arguments can easily (2) _____ from minor points of usage as from major educational policies. In English, the origin of many popular misconceptions (3) _____ in the work of the linguists of the eighteenth century who first attempted to codify the English grammar. (4) ____, they worked on the premise that English grammar is derived from Latin grammar and that the rules of the latter necessarily determine the former. It was this fundamental
misunderstanding that resulted (5) ______ the absurd but time-honored 'never-end-a-sentence-with-a-preposition' type of rules that many people still cling to. These days, many people (6) ______ that the Internet is the source of much unforgivable distortion of English, and that the ease and speed of email communication (7) ______ a lazy approach to writing. This is possibly a (8) ______ view: perhaps we should be more broad-minded and view such changes as potential enrichment rather than corruption of the language. Perhaps those (9) ______ argue it is only the latter are guilty of stick-in-the-mud mentality which is often not confined to their own language. The American linguist Leonard Bloomfield tells the story of a doctor who was quite firm in his view that the American language Chippewa had only a few hundred words. When Bloomfield (10) _____ to dispute the point, the doctor had no thoughts of backing down. He simply turned away and refused to listen.
1. A. high B. cut C. hung D. blow
2. A. root B. branch C. stem D. bud
3. A. lain B. laid C.lay D. lies
4. A. Unfortunately B. Luckily C. Particularly D. Especially
5. A. at B. in C. on D. through
6. A. hope B. blame C. recommend D. complain
7. A. bears B. constructs C. engenders D. invents
8. A. short-sighted B. short-cut C. short-wave D. short-tempered
9. A. they B. whose C. who D. what
10. A. failed B. attempted C. stopped D. used
