Question 2

```Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow
This book consists of lectures given by me at Cambridge. Although they have been largely rewritten. I have kept a good deal of their original lecture - form as being (I hope) rather less formal and less dogmatic. for to dogmatism, those written on language seem. for some reason, particularly prone; and I should like to make it clear at once that, if at times I have put my own views strongly. I do not forget that such matters of taste must remain mere matters of opinion. In addition, I have included a good specimen passages from various authors. Perhaps I have quoted too much. But a book on style without abundant examples seems to me as ineffectual as a book on art, or biology without abundant illustrations. Many of these passages are in French. That may be Gallomania on my part; and I must apologize if they trouble some readers. But some ability to read French prose does seem to me most desirable for anyone who would write well in English. I have tried to choose pieces not too difficult in syntax or vocabulary. And in these days less than ever can we afford to be insular ```
The author says that writers on language are

  • A.inclined to be dogmatic
  • B.opposed to dogmatism
  • C.unlikely to be dogmatic
  • D.resolved to be dogmatic
  • E.ready to be dogmatic
Objective

Question details

Exam body
UNIPORT
Subject
English Language
Year
2007/2008
Question no.
#2
Type
Objective

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