专业英语八级词汇-26_真题-无答案

专业英语八级词汇-26

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1. Which of the following does NOT belong to a political division on the island of Great Britain?

A. England. B. Wales.

C. Ireland. D. Scotland.

2. ______ is the world's largest exporter of mutton.

A. New Zealand B. Australia

C. Canada D. America

3. Which of the following does NOT belong to the first English-American colonies?

A. New Mexico. B. Connecticut.

C. Delaware. D. Virginia.

4. The Statue of Liberty is located

A. in Arizona. B. at Boston Harbor.

C. in Washington. D. at New York Harbor.

5. Which of the following novels were NOT developed by James Fenimore Cooper?

A. Local novels. B. Sea novels.

C. The American frontier novels. D. Novels about the revolutionary past.

6. Who is the author of The Grapes of Wrath?

A. John Steinbeck. B. Eugene O'Neill.

C. F. Scott Fitzgerald. D. Theodore Dreiser.

7. ______ marked the end of the American romanticism.

A. Song of Myself B. Laves of Grass

C. Walden D. The Raven

8. The function of the sentence "A nice day, isn't it? " is

A. informative. B. phatic.

C. directive. D. performative.

9. Which of the following words is entirely arbitrary?

A. Book. B. Crash.

C. Beautiful. D. Newspaper.

10. Which of the following is NOT a branch of phonetics?

A. Articulatory Phonetics. B. Arbitrary Phonetics.

C. Auditory Phonetics. D. Acoustic Phonetics.

11. The ancestors of the English are

A. Celts. B. Anglo-Saxons.

C. Scots. D. Irish.

12. Canada was originally one colony of

A. England. B. America.

C. Australia. D. Spain.

13. The traditional dividing line in America between "east" and "west" is

A. the Appalachians. B. the Rockies.

C. the Mississippi River. D. the Rio Grande River.

14. New Englanders were originally known as ______, **e to stand for all Americans.

A. Yankees B. Uncle Sam

C. Hippies D. Puritans

15. ______ was usually regarded as the first American writer.

A. Captain John Smith. B. William Bradford.

C. Anne Bradstreet. D. Thomas Paine.

16. Who is considered the father of modern English poetry?

A. William Langland. B. Philip Sidney.

C. Edmund Spenser. D. Geoffrey Chaucer.

17. The Spenserian Stanza refers to

A. a free style. B. a nine-line verse stanza.

C. a free verse stanza. D. nine-line poems.

18. The word "______" is NOT a free morpheme.

A. children B. book

C. sing D. use

19. Syntactic categories contain all the following types EXCEPT

A. meanings that words express. B. linguistic items the words use.

C. affixes that words take. D. structures in which the words can

occur.

20. Analysis of meaning includes

A. predication analysis and semantics analysis.

B. componential analysis and semantics analysis.

C. semantics analysis and structural analysis.

D. componential analysis and predication analysis.

21. The largest city in New Zealand is

A. Auckland. B. Christchurch.

C. Dunedin. D. Wellington.

22. The three largest cities in Canada do NOT include

A. Toronto. B. Quebec.

C. Ottawa. D. Vancouver.

23. The First Continental Congress was held in 1774 in

A. New York. B. Washington.

C. Philadelphia. D. Louisiana.

24. The first known settlers of Britain were

A. the Celts. B. the Anglo-Saxons.

C. the Brythons. D. the Iberians.

25. ______ first introduced rationalism to England.

A. Alexander Pope B. Samuel Pepys

C. Daniel Defoe D. Samuel Richardson

26. Who wrote one of the most enduring classic poems Ode to the West Wind'?

A. William Wordsworth. B. Alfred Tennyson.

C. Percy Shelley. D. Robert Burns.

27. American ______ was also called American Renaissance.

A. Transcendentalism B. Realism

C. Modernism D. Romanticism

28. Pragmatics is different from other linguistic branches because ______ get involved in it.

A. listeners B. speakers

C. followers D. grammars

29. The publication of Saussure's work Course in General Linguistics marked the beginning of

A. the modern grammar. B. the pragmatics.

C. the modern linguistics. D. the semantics.

30. ______ are NOT a minimal pair in English.

A. "sink" and "zinc" B. "ben" and "pen"

C. "teach" and "tough" D. "bat" and "pat

31. The official name of Great Britain is

A. the United Kingdom.

B. the United Kingdom of Great Britain.

C. the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

D. the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

32. For nearly ______ years Britain was under the Roman occupation.

A. 300 B. 400

C. 500 D. 600