The Maori people are natives of（）

单项选择题The type of language which is selected as appropriate to a particular type of situation is called（）

A.variety.
B.dialect.
C.slang.
D.register.

单项选择题Which of the following is an example of clipping（）

A.APEC.
B.Motel.
C.Disco.
D.Xerox.

单项选择题In English if a word begins with a [l] or a [r], then the next sound must be a vowel. This is a（）

A.sequential rule.
B.grammar rule.
C.deletion rule.
D.assimilation rule.

单项选择题The lettuce was lonely without tomatoes and cucumbers for company is an example of（）

A.exaggeration.
B.personification.
C.understatement.
D.synecdoche.

单项选择题Which of the following novelists wrote The Sound and the Fury（）

A.John Steinbeck.
B.Ernest Hemingway.
C.Scott Fitzgerald.
D.William Faulkner.