专业八级考试部分试题及答案

时间:2021-08-31

  1. The majority of the current population in the UK are decedents of all the following tribes respectively EXCEPT

  A. the Anglos

  B. the Celts

  C. the Jutes √

  D. the Saxons

  2. The Head of State of Canada is represented by

  A. the Monarch

  B. the President

  C. the Prime Minister

  D. the Governor-general √

  3. The Declaration of Independence was written by

  A. Thomas Jefferson √

  B. George Washington

  C. Alexander Hamilton

  D. James Madison

  4. The original inhabitants of Australia were

  A. the Red Indians

  B. the Eskimos

  C. the Aborigines √

  D. the Maoris

  5. Which of the following novels was written by Emily Bronte?

  A. Oliver Twist

  B. Middlemarch

  C. Jane Eyre

  D. Wuthering Heights √

  6. William Butler Yeats was a(n) ______ poet and playwright.

  A. American

  B. Canadian

  C. Irish √

  D. Australian

  7. Death of a Salesman was written by

  A. Arthur Miller √

  B. Ernest Hemingway

  C. Ralph Ellison

  D. James Baldwin

  8. _______ refers to the study of the internal structure of words and the rules of word formation.

  A. Phonology

  B. Morphology √

  C. Semantics

  D. Sociolinguistics

  9. The distinctive features of a speech variety may be all the following EXCEPT

  A. lexical

  B. syntactic

  C. phonological

  D. psycholinguistic √

  10. The word tail once referred to “the tail of a horse”, but now it is used to mean “the tail of any animal.” This is an example of

  A. widening of meaning √

  B. narrowing of meaning

  C. meaning shift

  D. loss of meaning