单选题 (一共100题,共100分)

1.

There are different types of affixes or morphemes.The affix"-ed"in the word"learned"is known as a(n)__________.

2.

In the Canadian parliamentary system,( )holds the highest position.

3.

Which of the following statements about American education is wrong?( )

4.

Members of House of Commons hold their seat for( )years at most.

5.

What is the ranking of Canada in the world by land area?( )

6.

The two main islands of the British Isles are( ).

7.

There are three main parties represented in the House of Representatives of Australia,which one is the oldest party?( )

8.

In which day is Halloween celebrated?( )

9.

( )is the dividing line between the South and North of America.

10.

Australia has several different climatic regions,from warm to( )and tropical.

11.

Australia can be divided into three big regions,which of the following is not included?( )

12.

The Commonwealth of Australia was established in( )

13.

Which kind of animal is not the executive of Australia?( )

14.

When did the Australian Constitution take effect?( )

15.

The indigenous people in Australia are( ),which have 2.2% of the total population in 2001.

16.

Which one is the national sport of Canada?( )

17.

The“first Americans”are( )

18.

( )is Australia’s most important industrial city and the capital of New South Wales.

19.

Which of the following is not the function of the Australian parliament?( )

20.

When did the War of Independence of America break out?( )

21.

The National Day of Canada is( )

22.

Australia completely abolished the White Australia Policy during the goverment of( ).

23.

The Hundred Year’s War between Britain and France was fought( ).

24.

The Great Charter was signed in( )and had( )clauses.

25.

Of the fifty states,the smallest state in America is( )

26.

The direct cause for the Reformation was King Henry VIII’s effort to( )

27.

According to its geographical location,which one can be used to represent Australia?( )

28.

The Hundred Year’s War lasted from 1337 to 1453 between Britain and( )

29.

The Anglo-Saxons brought( )religion to Britain.

30.

( )laid the foundations of English state.

31.

The Anglo-Saxons established( )system,whereby the lord of the manor collected taxes and organized the local army.

32.

The following American states are among the first thirteen colonies except( ).

33.

The Commonwealth of Nations is an association of independent countries ( )

34.

The northern part of the Australia has a tropical climate with only two seasons,and the dry season lasts from( ).

35.

Easter is a holiday usually connected to the following except( )

36.

Washington D.C.is named after( ).

37.

Britain’s first permanent colony in Australia was founded in( ).

38.

Coal mining industry in Britain provides( )of the energy consumed in the country.

39.

The number of the Representatives from each American state depends on the( ).

40.

The anthem of Canada is ( )

41.

The first ten amendments,known as( )were added to the American Constitution in 1791.

42.

The earliest invasion of England is that by( )

43.

The“three arms of government” of Australia refers to the Parliament,the Executive Government and( )

44.

According to the maxim of ( ) suggested by Grice, one should speak truthfully.

45.

( ) is regarded as the“father of American literature”

46.

Which of the following clusters of words is an example of alliteration?( )

47.

Which of the following literary forms is regarded as the most common and influential form that English ( ) poetry has taken since 16th century?

48.

Of the following writers,( )is NOT a Nobel Prize Winner.

49.

Of the following books,( )is Not written by Thomas Hardy.

50.

Of the following writers,( )is NOT included in the group of naturalists.

51.

Which of the following is NOT a usual subject of Emily Dickenson′s poems?( )

52.

Of the following,( ) is NOT characteristic of Mark Twain′s works.

53.

Which of the following novelists wrote The Sound and the Fury?( )

54.

Theodore Dreiser ′s works include the following EXCEPT ( )

55.

Jane Austen wrote all the following novels EXCEPT ( )

56.

( ) is the first African-American winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

57.

Waiting for Godot is written by ( )

58.

Alexander Pope was an outstanding enlightener and the greatest English poet of school in ( ) the first half of the 18th century.

59.

( ) is NOT included in the modernist group

60.

-Would you mind telling me your address?-Somewhere in the southern of Handan.Which maxim of the Cooperative Principle that above example violates?( )

61.

Which of the following doesn′t belong to the Cooperative Principle?( )

62.

NP and ( ) are essential components of a sentence.

63.

Conceptual meaning is not ( )

64.

John is reading an interesting book on evolution theory which was written by Charles Darwin,who was a British naturalist who developed a theory of evolution based on natural selection.What design feature of language is reflected in the example?( )

65.

The phrase“boys and girls”is a(n)( )

66.

The poem“I Sought tell my love, Love that never told can be” violates among the ( ) Cooperative Principle.

67.

English consonants can be classified into stops, fricative, nasals ect.,in terms of ( )

68.

A sentence is considered when it conforms to the grammatical knowledge in the mind of ( ) native speakers.

69.

Which of the following words is made up of bound morphemes only?( )

70.

Which of the following is NOT included in G.Leech′s seven types of meaning?( )

71.

Consonant articulation is relatively easy to feel and as a result is most conveniently described in terms of ( ) and manner of articulation.

72.

( )is a typical tone language.

73.

The Cooperative Principle is proposed by ( ).

74.

Which of the following pairs is not a minimal pair?( )

75.

( ) is the defining properties of units like number, gender, case.

76.

“Hen”is called“母鸡” in Chinese and“poule” in French.What design feature of language is reflected ( ) in the example?

77.

-It was an interesting exhibition, wasn′t it?-No, it was very uninteresting.Which maxim of the Politeness Principle that above example violates?( )

78.

The formation of new words by combining parts of two words or a word plus a part of another is ( ) called

79.

Lexical ambiguity arises from polysemy or ( ) which cannot be determined by the context.

80.

The word“motel” is formed via word formation rule of ( )

81.

The semantic triangle holds that the meaning of a word ( )

82.

Which item does not fall under the same category as the rest?( )

83.

The criterion used in IC analysis is ( )

84.

A ( ) is not a sound, it is a collection of distinctive phonetic features.

85.

( ) refers to a construction where one clause is coordinated with another.

86.

The smallest meaningful unit of language is ( )

87.

The semantic components of the word“gentleman” can be expressed as ( )

88.

Which of the fllowing is not included in the design features of language?( )

89.

( ) is a relationship in which a word of a certain class determines the form of others in terms of certain categories.

90.

Bloomfield introduced the IC analysis, whose full name is ( ) Analysis.

91.

“X buys something from Y” and“Y sells something to X” are in a relation of ( )

92.

If we are to use the technique of IC analysis to analyze the sentence“She broke the window with a ( ) stone yesterday”,where is the first cut?

93.

( ) deals with the relationship between the linguistic element and the non-linguistic worldexperience.

94.

Which one of the following maxims is not included in the Cooperative Principle?( )

95.

( ) are bound morphemes because they can not be used as separate words.

96.

Which of the following sounds does not belong to the allomorphs of the English plural morpheme?( )

97.

The vowel ( ) is a low back vowel.

98.

What is the construction of the sentence “The boy smiled”?( )

99.

The sense relation between“John plays the piano”and“John plays a musical instrument” is ( )

100.

Which one of the following studies the internal structure of words, and the rules by which words are ( ) formed?