EXERCISE 12  

English belongs,in a rather complicated way,to the Indo-European family __1_ includes most of the European languages and a few Asiatic ones. We don't know __2_ the orginal speakers of the parent Indo-European language lived.Guessed about their homeland __3_ all the way from northwestern Europe __4_ central Asia.According to all the early _5__ ,they were a tall,blond,and warlike people,with a good __6_ of energy and intelligence.In their native land they had developed _7__ writing nor cities,so there is not much __8_ about how they lived when they were at home.But when they __9_ home and went out in __10_ of new lands,the Indo-European seem to have been generally successful in _11__ the countries they came to.

When a wave of them _12__ a territory already crowded,they _13__ the original population._14__ they lost their distinctive appearance by intermarrying with the earlier inhabitants,and sometimes they also _15__ most of the features of their language.When a _16__ went to a more thinly-settled territory,they naturally _17__ their physical characteristics comparatively unchanged for a much longer time;and they were likely to preserve the _18__ features of their language also,though the two things did not always go together.

The Slavic and Celltic languages,__19_ Indian,Persian ,and some others,are of Indo-Euro-pean origin,but the three branchs with _20__ English is most concerned are the Greek,Latin,and Germanic,particularly the last.

1)    A which      B whose           C that        D whom

2)    A that        B which           C where      D whose

3)    A is ranging   B range           C have ranged D have been ranged

4)    A into        B towards         C from       D to

5)    A records     B recording        C tapes       D notes

6)    A number     B great           C amount    D deal

7)    A either      B neither          C other       D both

8)    A evidence     B points          C understanding D knowing

9)    A leave      B would leave     C left          D were leaving

10)   A search     B wanting        C looking       D demanding

11)   A conquer    B conquering     C defeat        D defeating

12)   A settled in   B settled         C settled down   D settled to

13)   A mix with B mixed together   C mixed with    D mix together

14)   A on time    B from time      C by time       D in time

15)   A give in    B gave in         C gave up      D give up

16)   A branch    B wave          C group         D kind

17)   A preserve   B reserve        C preserved       D reserved

18)   A special    B particular      C distinguished    D distinctive

19)   A as well as B as good as      C as well           D as good

20)   A them      B which         C the three branches D that

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