IELTS JOURNAL 165 Questions 26-32 Below is a summary of part of Reading Passage 3,"The Origins of Indo-European
Languages".
Read the summary and then select the best word or phrase from the box below to fill
each gap. according to the information in the Reading Passage. Write the
corresponding letters (A-L) in boxes 26-32 on your answer sheet.
N.B. There are more words and phrases than you will need to fill the gaps. You may
use a word or phrase more than once if you wish.
Summary-Models of Language Change Answer Example There are four main models of language .... K .....
The first is the process of initial colonization where an uninhabited territory
becomes populated: the language spoken will therefore be that of the .....(26).....
Processes of .....(27)..... occur where different dialects, and then languages,
develop from a common .....(28)..... Many of the original characteristics of this
common ancestor can be reconstructed from what we know of the
present separate .....(29).....
Processes of linguistic .....(30)..... occur when languages which were initially
different become more similar through contact. The wave model, formulated by
Schmidt in the 1870s, is an example.
The final model is that of linguistic .....(31)..... In this model, a new language
replaces the language spoken by the .....(32).....
A colonizers G languages Binvaders H waves
C proto-language Ireplacement D indigenous people
J convergence Elinguists K development F model
L divergence
