1. _____ was celebrated on April 25th, which is Australia’s most important holiday.
[A] Anzac Day[B] Independence Day
[C] Easter Sunday[D] Christmas
2. The Hundred Years War between Britain and France was fought
[A] from 1327 to 1453.[B] from 1337 to 1453.
[C] from 1347 to 1453.[D] from 1357 to 1453.
3. The District of Manhattan is in the city of
[A] Washington D.C.[B] San Francisco.
[C] New York.[D] Chicago.
4. The three largest cities in Canada do NOT include
[A] Toronto.[B] Montreal.
[C] Ottawa.[D] Vancouver.
5. Waiting for Godot is a(an) _____ by Samuel Beckett.
[A] novel[B] poem[C] play[D] essay
6. George Eliot wrote all the following EXCEPT
[A] The Mill of Floss.[B] Silas Marner.
[C] Middlemarch.[D] Agnes Grey.
7. As a philosophical and literary moment, _____ flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War.
[A] modernism[B] rationalism[C] sentimentalism[D] transcendentalism
8. Which of the following is NOT among the three social variables that determine the register?
[A] region of discourse. [B] field of discourse.
[C] tenor of discourse.[D] mode of discourse.
9. The sentence structure is
[A] linear. [B] hierarchical.
[C] complex.[D] both linear and hierarchical.
10. The word lewd once referred to “ignorant”, but now it is used to mean “lustful”. This is an example of
[A] narrowing of meaning. [B] widening of meaning.
[C] loss of meaning. [D] meaning shift.
1. A澳新军团节(Anzac Day)是澳大利亚最重要的节日,是澳大利亚和新西兰政府为纪念“加里波利之战”4月25日登陆日联合设立的纪念日。
2. B英法百年战争(The Hundred Years War)爆发于1337年到1453年间,中间还发生了黑死病。
3. C曼哈顿是纽约市的著名经济和商业区,也是纽约的中心地带。
4. C加拿大是高度城市化的国家,三大城市包括多伦多(Toronto)、蒙特利尔(Montreal)和温哥华(Vancouver),不包括渥太华。
5. C《等待戈多》是英国剧作家Samuel Beckett(塞缪尔·贝克特,1906—1989)所著的荒诞派戏剧作品。
6. D乔治·艾略特是19世纪现实主义小说的真正代表,她的《弗洛斯河上的磨坊》(The Mill on the Floss)、《织工马南》(Silas Marner)和《米德尔马契》(Middle March)等作品以写实手法展现英国的社会人生图,对人物的内心和行为活动刻画得十分生动细致,艾略特因此被誉为“心理小说的先驱”。
7. D从19世纪30年代到内战期间的主要文学流派是超验主义(transcendentalism),以爱默生为代表。
8. A语域是指由于交际场合情境不同而产生的不同程度的语言变体,决定语域的因素有三个,包括field of discourse(话语范围),tenor of discourse(话语体式) and mode of discourse(话语方式)。
9. D句子是根据一系列的句法规则而成的,既是线性结构也是层次结构。
10. D语义变化对扩大语言词汇量起到重要的作用,词义的演变可分为三种不同的类型:narrowing of meaning(词义缩小)、widening of meaning(词义扩大)和meaning shift(词义转移)。其中词义转移是指单词演变后的词义和原来的词义不一致的现象。“lewd”在演变的过程中,词义发生了变化,属于词义转移。
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