homework for week 7-pp. 120-122 Grammar in context - cloze
CHOOSE THE CORRECT ANSWER
The way in 1) ..................... 2) ....................... few tribal and local Germanic dialects 3) .......................... by 4)................................. people grew into 5)...................... English language 6) ............................................... by about one and a half billion people has all the characteristics of a tremendous adventure. That is 7) ........................ story of this book. 8) ................... English, like a living organism, 9) ....................... in this country over fifteen hundred years ago. England became 10) ................. first home. From the beginning it was exposed to rivalries, dangers and threats: there was an escape from extinction; there was looting, great boldness, chances 11) ...........................; there were and there are casualties.
... This book is about where this language came from and how it achieved the feat of transforming 12)........................... so successfully. It is about the words which describe the way 13) ..................... we live, the words we think in, sing in, speak in... .14) ............................it only exists in the mouths, minds and pens of individual learners, I came to feel that it had a character and presence of its own. From M. Bragg's The Aadventure of English
a)a) that b) what c) which d) whom
b)a) a b) x c) the
c)a) speaking b) speak c) spoken d) speaks
d)a) hundred and fifty thousand b) a hundred and fifty thousands
c) hundred and fifty thousands d) a hundred and fifty thousand
e)a) a b) the c) x
f)a) spoken and understood b) was spoken and understood
c) is spoken and understood c) speaking and understanding
g)a) x b) the c) a
h)a) a b) the c) x
i)a) was seeded b) has been seeded c) is seeded d) had been seeded
j)a) his b) it's c their d) its
k)a) took and missed b) taking and misssing d) take and miss d) taken and missed
l)a) itself b) it c) himself d) him
m)a) x b) which c) that d) what
n)a) however b) but c) although d) in case