9th form Test / Reading "Australian English"

1. The Macquarie Dictionary was first published in 1981 and it ______ as the national dictionary of Australian English.

2. What makes Australian English different from other _____ of the world? Well - its history for a start.

3. When the British government ____ a convivt settlement at Sydney Cove they did not think about the linguistic consequences.

4. As time went by, the convicts and settlers took English and adapted it to their new home by ____ the meaning of words or borrowing new ones to suit.

5. An easy way for English to expand in Australia to meet the needs of the settlers was to borrow from the Aboriginal languages, particularly in ____ the flora and fauna.

6. Some animals ____ this way, such as the kangaroo, koala and wombat.

7. The kookaburra, a popular Australian bird that sounds like a human ____, was also named this way.

8. If you visit Australia you might ____ that there are differences between the older generation and the younger generation, and between the people who live in the city and those who live in the bush (country).

9. It seems that the younger generation living in the cities tend ____ their fashionable colloqualisms from America.

10. It is noticable that, _____ the size of Australia, everyone sounds the same.

11. Their spelling ____ reflects British traditions but they are increasingly influenced by American English.

12. Obviously, they have ended up ____ between the two.

Find the synonyms:

13. All the people born and living at about the same time is ____.

14. The plants of a specified region or time is ____.

15. A book of alphabetically listed words with definitions, pronanciations, etc is ____.

16. To put or take (a thing) in place of something else means ____.

17. To set up; to cause to be accepted means ____.

18. To have power to produce effects means ____.

19. To make suitable, especially by changing means ____.

20. To observe or pay attention to something means ____.