1、“Woman”becomes“Frau”inGerman,“femme”inFrenchand“fùnǔ”inChinese.Thisexampleshowsthatindifferentlanguagesthesameconceptcanberepresentedbydifferent______.
A、sounds
B、forms
C、unities
D、meanings
2、ThefollowingwordsofthebasicwordstockdenotethemostcommonthingsandphenomenaoftheworldaroundusEXCEPT______.
A、fire
B、hot
C、photoscanning
D、sister
3、Aliensareborrowedwordswhichhaveretainedtheiroriginalpronunciationandspelling.WhichofthefollowingwordscomesfromChinese?
A、Bazaar
B、Kowtow
C、Rajah
D、Blitzkrieg
4、TheIndo-EuropeanlanguagefamilyismadeupofthelanguagesofthefollowingEXCEPT______.
A、Europe
B、theFarEast
C、India
D、theNearEast
5、WhichofthefollowingisNOToneofthemainsourcesofnewwordsinthepresent-dayEnglishvocabulary?
A、Therapiddevelopmentofmodernscienceandtechnology
B、Social,economicandpoliticalchanges
C、Theinvasionofforeigncountries
D、Theinfluenceofotherculturesandlanguages