[外语类试卷]专业英语八级模拟试卷429及答案与解析.doc
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1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 429及答案与解析 一、 PART III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (10 MIN) Directions: There are ten multiple-choice questions in this section. Choose the best answer to each question. 1 The Scarlet Letter is the masterpiece of ( A) Edgar Allan Poe. ( B) Herman Melville. ( C) Nathaniel Hawthorne. ( D) Joseph Conra
2、d. 2 _ is not the Romantic poet of Britain. ( A) William Wordsworth ( B) George Gordon Byron ( C) Percy Bysshe Shelly ( D) Alfred Tennyson 3 The pair of words “buy“ and “sell“ are ( A) gradable opposites. ( B) relational opposites. ( C) co-hyponyms. ( D) synonyms. 4 The distinction between vowels an
3、d consonants lies in ( A) the place of articulation. ( B) the obstruction of airstream. ( C) the position of the tongue. ( D) the shape of the lips. 5 _studies the rules governing the way words are combined to form sentences in a language. ( A) Semantics ( B) Morphology ( C) Syntax ( D) Pragmatics 6
4、 The British Empire was replaced by the Commonwealth of Nations in ( A) 1929. ( B) 1931. ( C) 1945. ( D) 1949. 7 _of the United States comprises law-makers who serve two-year term. ( A) The House of Representatives ( B) The Senate ( C) The Congress ( D) The executive 8 The first major discoveries of
5、 gold made in New South Wales and _ in the early 1850 resulted in gold rushes. ( A) Queensland ( B) South Australia ( C) Tasmania ( D) Victoria 9 The highest mountain of Britain is ( A) Scafell. ( B) Ben Nevis. ( C) Cross Fell. ( D) Snowdonia. 10 The sentence “Shall I compare thee to a summers day?“
6、 is the beginning of one of Shakespeares ( A) sonnets. ( B) comedies. ( C) tragedies. ( D) histories. 11 Transcendentalists recognized_as the “highest power of the soul“. ( A) intuition ( B) logic ( C) data of the senses ( D) thinking 12 Spensers masterpiece _ is a great poem of his time. ( A) Metam
7、orphoses ( B) The Faerie Queene ( C) The Canterbury Tales ( D) Of Studies 13 _ is defined as any regionally or socially definable human group identified by shared linguistic system. ( A) A speech community ( B) A race ( C) A country ( D) A society 14 The relationship between “flower“ and “violet“ is
8、 ( A) homonymy. ( B) hyponymy. ( C) polysemy. ( D) synonymy. 15 Of the following linguists, _belongs to London School. ( A) Boas ( B) Sapir ( C) Bloomfield ( D) Firth 16 The Great Barrier Reef lies off_coast of Australia. ( A) the southeast ( B) the southwest ( C) the northeast ( D) the northwest 17
9、 _ and_are the most important natural resources in New Zealand. ( A) natural gas, iron ( B) silver, petroleum ( C) coal, gold ( D) limestone, clay 18 _, which began publishing in 1785, is the United Kingdoms oldest daily newspaper. ( A) The Times ( B) The Observer ( C) The Guardian ( D) The News of
10、the World 19 In the United States, _are the largest Protestant group. ( A) the Baptists ( B) the Methodists ( C) the Catholics ( D) the Jewish 20 The main literary stream of the 18 th century was _, an amalgam of romantic plots and realistic descriptions of things, like the American dialects, custom
11、s, and sights. ( A) Romanticism ( B) Realism ( C) Classicism ( D) Naturalism 21 The essay, _, is not written by Ralph Waldo Emerson. ( A) The American Scholar ( B) Nature ( C) Samson Agonistes ( D) Self-reliance 22 The prominent characteristic of_novels is “local color“. ( A) Edgar Allen Poes ( B) E
12、rnest Hemingways ( C) Sherwood Andersons ( D) Mark Twains 23 The description of a language as it changes through time is a_ study. ( A) synchronic ( B) diachronic ( C) comparative ( D) descriptive 24 An aspirated /p/ and an unaspirated /p/ are_of the p phoneme. ( A) morphemes ( B) phones ( C) tagmem
13、es ( D) allophones 25 The founder of Transformational-Generative Grammar is ( A) Chomsky. ( B) Halliday. ( C) Saussure. ( D) Firth. 26 The British government ministers must be members of ( A) the House of lords. ( B) the Cabinet. ( C) the Privy Council. ( D) the Parliament. 27 In 1636, _ was founded
14、 as the beginning of the higher education of the United States. ( A) Harvard College ( B) Stanford University ( C) Princeton University ( D) Yale University 28 It was_colonists who first settled Canada. ( A) British ( B) French ( C) American ( D) Spanish 29 The most famous inventor of America, _, wh
15、o brought forth the system of motion pictures, the photograph and the electric light, has the title of “ The Wizard of Menlo Park“. ( A) Henry Ford ( B) Lee De Forest ( C) Eli Whitney ( D) Thomas Alva Edison 30 Oscar Wilde was a( n) ( A) poet. ( B) novelist. ( C) essayist. ( D) dramatist. 专业英语八级模拟试卷
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