III. Close (30 points)
Directions: For each blank in the following passage, there are four choices marked A, B, C and D.
Choose the one that is most suitable and mark your answer by blackening the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.
Dr. William C Stokoe, Jr., was the chairman of the English Department at Gallaudet University. He saw the way deaf people communicated and was extremely __21__. He was a hearing person, and signs of the deaf were totally new to him.
Dr. Stokoe decided to propose a study of sign language. Many other teachers were not interested, and though Dr. Stokoe was __22__ to think about studying sign language. Even deaf teachers were not very interested in the project. However, Dr. Stokoe did not give up. __23__, he started the Linguistics Research Program in 1957. Stokoe and his two deaf assistants, worked __24__ this project during the summer and after school. The three __25__ made films of deaf people signing. The deaf people in the film did not understand __26__ the research about and were just trying to be nice to Dr. Stokoe. Many people thought the whole project was silly, but __27__ agreed with Dr. Stokoe in order to please him.
Stokoe and his __28__ studied the films of signing. They __29__ the films and try to see patterns in the signs. The results of the research were __30__: the signs used by all of the signers __31__ certain linguistic rules.
Dr. Stokoe was the first linguist to test American Sign Language __32__ a real language. He published the __33__ in 1960, but not many people paid attention to the study. Dr. Stokoe was still __34__ —he was the only linguist who __35__ that sign language was more than gestures. He knew it was a language of its own and not just another form of English.
21. A ashamed B bored C interested D involved
22. A idealistic B crazy C smart D normal
23. A Otherwise B Instead C Additionally D Afterwards
24. A through B into C along D on
25. A researchers B designers C directors D physicians
26. A what B why C that D which
27. A strongly B hardly C willingly D merely
28. A team B crowd C crew D party
29. A made B advertised C released D analyzed
30. A dissatisfying B alarming C surprising D disappointing
31. A exercised B followed C played D performed
32. A like B as C with D beyond
33. A results B consequences C endings D resolutions
34. A anxious B afraid C alert D alone
35. A wished B reasoned C believed D decided