单选题In astronomy, a scale of magnitude from one to six denotes brightness of a star.
单选题He is in ______of his life.
单选题When A sees B sneezing violently, he said “Bless you” to B. In this case, A’s words mainly performs ____function of language.
单选题Before the development of movable metal type in the mid-fifteenth century, news was disseminated by word of mouth, by letter or by public notice.
单选题The super-ordinate term for the words chair and table is ____.
单选题In English –ise and –al are called _____.
单选题The forerunner of modern computers called the “analytical engine”______ of a mathematical engineer named George Babbage.
单选题In the days leading up to the American Revolution, both the colonies and the British Crown were reluctant to take the final irrevocable step.
单选题The sound assimilation is not manifested in the spelling of the word______.
单选题They lean this way and that, hanging on to their bases_______ , i.e., unsteadily.
单选题No one mentioned about the most heinous crime committed by the US who dropped the first atomic bomb onto mankind.
单选题Among the following words, ______does not contain a bilabial sound.
单选题Although English as borrowed most heavily from French, other languages have also made contribution. For example, tea, typhoon, and silk are from _______.
单选题Why did they design and build up such ugly houses? Their motives were rather_______ to any normal mind.
单选题The government’s reaction to this was issuing a writ against any child abuse
单选题Over 90 countries have ratified an agreement to ban the use of these chemicals.
单选题Some children display an unquenchable curiosity about every new thing they encounter.
单选题____ is concerned with the social significance of language variation and language use in different speech communities.
单选题Despite an overlay of quasi-literary French vocabulary stemming from the Norman Invasion of 1066, the daily vocabulary of English remained Germanic, _____ its grammatical structure.
单选题Lexeme is ______.