Attitudes to Language Reading Answers
Attitudes to Language Reading Answers
You should spend 20 minutes on answering questions 1-13 based on your reading of the passage below.
Attitudes to Language
Answers
The answers to questions 1-13 are given below along with their explanations.
| Question Number | Answer | Keywords | Location of Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | YES | And when opinions differ, emotions can run high | Para 1, lines 3-4 |
| 2 | NO | Arguments can start as easily over minor points of usage as over major policies of linguistic education | Para 1, last 2 lines |
| 3 | YES | linguistic factors influence, judge, personality, intelligence | Para 2, lines 2-3 |
| 4 | NOT GIVEN | ||
| 5 | YES | These attitudes, still with us | Para 5, first line |
| 6 | YES | not to attempt, halting language change | Para 5, lines 5-6 |
| 7 | NO | second half, 18th century, already find advocates, this view | Para 5, lines 6-7 |
| 8 | YES | opposition, ‘descriptivists’, ‘prescriptivists’, become extreme, unreal pictures of the other | Para 6, first two lines |
| 9 | H | prescriptivism, one variety of language, inherently higher value than others | Para 3, first 2 lines |
| 10 | F | authoritarian nature, best characterized by, reliance on ‘rules’ of grammar | Para 4, lines 6-7 |
| 11 | A | already find advocates, view, Joseph Priestley | Para 5, lines 6-7 |
| 12 | C | the custom of speaking, original, just standard, language | Para 5, lines 8-9 |
| 13 | B | – | whole passage |
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