UNIT 10, US Language in Culture 22A

Viewed in this light, understanding American English will help us gain some ______ into American culture.

• insight

• foresight

• oversight

• sightsee

Indeed, as a nation of immigrants, ______ every language in the world is spoken in the USA.

• culturally

• vitally

• virtually

• logically

It is a category for languages that didn’t ______ the first three categories.

• fit out with

• fit in with

• benefit

• fit into

The American Community Survey of 2011 was ______ by the US Census Bureau.

• rejected

• opposed

• boosted

• endorsed

With about 50 million Americans speaking a language ______ English at home or anywhere else, it can cause confusion as to whether a non-English-speaking person is an American or a foreigner.

• different

• other than

• otherwise

• extra

Some states ______ the federal policy of adopting no official language in a de jure capacity, other adopting English alone, while still others officially adopt English as well as local languages.

• study

• recap

• mirror

• remake

Americans speak a great variety of languages, helping create an environment for people of different linguistic backgrounds to ______ their heritage through the use of their own languages.

• keep up

• preserve

• abandon

• endanger

However standard SE claims to be, dialect regions throughout the country, with the possible exception of the American South, are not ______ to the influence of this mass-media English.

• moralizing

• aspiring

• yielding

• coming over

A greater number of people see Black English as an asset rather than a ______ to the diversity of American culture.

• liability

• advantage

• downturn

• offset

During WWI, anti-German sentiment resulted in the ______ of German instruction in American public schools.

• establishment

• displacement

• elimination

• addition