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The history of English is conventionally, if perhaps too neatly, divided into three periods usually called Old ( or Anglo-Saxon)
The history of English is conventionally, if perhaps too neatly, divided into three periods usually called Old ( or Anglo-Saxon)
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2010-07-06
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The history of English is conventionally, if perhaps too neatly, divided into three periods usually called Old ( or Anglo-Saxon) English, Middle English, and Modem English. The earliest period begins with migration of certain Germanic tribes from the continent to Britain in the fifth century A. D, though no records of their language survive from before the seventh century, and it continues until the end of the seventh century or a bit later. By that time, Latin, Old Norse ( the language of the Viking invaders), and especially the Anglo-Norman French of the dominant class after the Norman Conquest in 1066 had begun to have a substantial impact on the vocabulary, and the welldeveloped inflectional system that typifies the grammar of Old English had begun to break down.
The period of Middle English extends roughly from the twelfth century through the fifteenth. The influence of French ( and Latin, often by way of French) upon the vocabulary continued throughout the period, the loss of some inflections and the reduction of others accelerated, and many changes took place within the grammatical systems of the language. A typical prose passage, especially one from the later part of the period, will not have such a foreign look to us as the prose of Old English, but it will not be mistaken for contemporary writing either.
The period of Modern English extends from the sixteenth century to our own day. The early part of this period say the completion of a revolution in vowel distribution that had begun in late Middle English and that effectively brought the language to something resembling its present pattern. Other important early deyelopments include the stabilizing effect on spelling of the printing press and the beginning of the direct influence of Latin, and to a lesser extent, Greek on the vocabulary. Later, as English came into contact with other cultures around the world and distinctive dialects of English developed in the many areas which Britain had colonized, numerous other languages made small but interesting contributions to our word-stock.
What can be inferred form the passage?
选项
A、Even an educated person can not read old English without special training.
B、A person who knows French well can understand old English.
C、An educated person can understand old English but can not pronounce it.
D、A person can pronounce old English words but can’t understand them.
答案
A
解析
4个选项里,B ,C ,D 在文章里都没有提到,也没有暗示,但从第一段我们可以推断出古英语是与现代英语十分不同的语言,主要受日尔曼移民部落的影响,而且词尾变化复杂,一般的现代人都无法读懂。所以选A 。
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