By origin, English words can be classified as “native words” and “loan words”.（)

A.birth

B.origin

C.source

D.breed

A.use frequency

B.origin

C.pronunciation

D.notion

A.origin

B.source

C.start

D.beginning

The core lexicon of basic English is ().

A. made up of French words

B. from Latin and Greek

C. derived from Celtic

D. of Germanic origin

t can combine with roots of ()origin such as assist and combat, but not with those of native English origin such as help and fight. Thus, there are words such as assistant and combatant, but not *helpant and *fightant.

A.French

B.Latin

C.Chinese

D.American

A．Civic Biology

B．Evolution and Ethics

C．Sociobiology: The New Synthesis

D．On the Origin of Species

A．The vocabulary contains a lot of borrowed words．

B．Greek and Latin have the greatest impact on those English terms．

C．A larger portion of the vocabulary is derived from Old English．

D．The influence of German on English medical and pharmaceutical terms is resulted from the country’s great progress in science and technology．

According to the passage, which of the following sentence is NOT true？

A．English is the official language of the United Kingdom.

B．English is spoken by the vast majority of world citizens.

C．The use of language is extremely important to Britain's class structure.

D．Some educated English people, regardless of their class origin, strive to free themselves of regional or local accents in order to sound like educated English-speaking people.