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1.The first known settlers of Britain were ____. 答案 八年级地理上册填图题岩土工程勘察试题省略号的作用及举例应急救援安全知识车间5s试题及答案 :the Iberians 2. On the island of Great Britain, there are three political divisions--- ____. 答案:England,Scotland,and Wales 3. Great Britain is separated from the rest of Europe by the ____ in the south.答案:English Channel 4. The north and west of Britain are mainly highlands, and the ____ are mainly lowlands. 答案:east and south 5. The most important river in Britain is____. 答案:the Thames 6. Britain?s longest river is ____. 答案:the Severn 7. The highest mountain in Britain is ____. 答案:Ben Nevis 8. The Highlanders are the ____ who live in the mountainous region of the Highlands. 答案:Scots 9. The Eisteddfod is a(n)——festival of poetry, music and the others. 答案:Welsh 10. The Romans led by Julius Caesar launched their first invasion on Britain in _____. 答案:55 BC 11. Christianity was first brought to England by ____. 答案:the Romans 12. William, Duke of Normandy, fought King Harold of England at the Battle of Hastings in____. 答案:1066 13. When the Hundred Years? War ended in 1453, the only part of France that was still in the hands of English is ____.j 答案:Calais 14. In England, the most famous of the Catholic conspiracies was ____. 答案:the Gunpowder Plot 15. The law, which joined England and Scotland in 1707, was ____. 答案:the Act of Union 16. The Tories were the forerunners of ____,which still bears this nickname today. 答案:the Conservative Party 17. In Britain, ministers are appointed by the Queen on the recommendation of ____. 答案:the Prime Minister 18. The Norwegian Vikings began to attack various parts of England from the end of the ____ century. 答案:8th 19. ____ is generally regarded as the beginning of modern world history. 答案:The English Civil War 20. The British constitution is made up of the following EXCEPT ____. 答案:commonwealth law 21. The British Parliament consists of three parts except____. 答案:the Cabinet 22. A parliament has a maximum of ____ years, but in practice general elections are usually held before the end of this term. 答案:5 23. In Britain, capital punishment for murder has been abolished but it remains the penalty for____. 答案:piracy and treason 24. Education is compulsory for all between the ages of ____ in Great Britain except in North Ireland. 答案:5 and 16 25. The University of Oxford and Cambridge date from the ____ centuries. 答案:12th and 13th 26. About 90 per cent of the state secondary school population in the UK attend ____. 答案:comprehensive schools 27. The most famous art festival in Britain is ____. 答案:the Edinburgh International Festival of Music and Drama 28. The most popular sport in England is ____ which was developed into its modern form in the 19th century. 答案:soccer 29. The Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, ____. 答案:1776 30. The largest lake in Britain is____. 答案:the Lough Neagh 31. The origin of the American party system can be traced to ____. 答案:the constitutional debate between the Federalists and the anti-Federalists 32. The Hundred Years? War between Britain and France was fought ____. 答案:from 1337 to 1453 33. The second largest state of the United States is ____. 答案:Texas 1. William Faulkner is the author of ____. 答案:The Sound and the Fury 2. Robert Frost is a famous____. 答案:poet 3. The Old Man and the Sea is one of the great works by ____. 答案:Ernest Hemingway 4. Which of the following is NOT written by William Shakespeare? A. Othello. B. The Tragic History of Dr Faustus. C. Romeo and Juliet. D. The Twelfth Night. 答案:B The Tragic History of Dr. Faustus 5. Beowulf narrates a story taking place in ____. 答案:Scandinavia 6._____ refers to some contrast or discrepancy between appearance and reality.答案:Irony 7.William Wordsworth is an English ____. 答案:poet 8. The great transcendental work by Henry David Thoreau is ____. 答案:Walden 9. James Joyce is the author of all the following novels EXCEPT ____. A. Dubliners B. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man C. Jude the Obscure D. Ulysses 答案:C Jude the Obscure 10. The Bronte sisters published the following famous novels EXCEPT ____. A. Emma B. Jane Eyre C. Wuthering Height D. Agnes Grey 答案:A. Emma 11. In which novel can “Yahoo” be found? 答案:Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels 12. The Victorian age was largely an age of ____, eminently represented by Dickens and Thackeray. 答案:critical realism 13. Mark Twain shaped the world?s view of American and made a combination of ____ and serious literature. 答案:American folk humor 14. Who was the first American to achieve an international literary reputation after the Revolutionary War? 答案:Washington Irving. 15. Paradise Lost is a masterpiece by ____. 答案:John Milton 16. I have a Dream is addressed by ____. 答案:Martin Luther King 17. Which of the following is a poem by Emily Dickinson? A. Song of Myself B. The Raven. C. A Red Red Rose D. Because I Could Not Stop for Death 答案:D. Because I Could Not Stop for Death 18. Eugene O?Neill is an American ____. 答案:playwright 19. The Romantic Age in England came to an end with the death of ____. 答案:Walter Scott 20. In the works of aestheticism, the theory of “art for art?s sake” is advocated by ____. 答案:0scar Wilde 21. Whose works are characterized by stream-of-consciousness? 答案:James Joyce 22. The most famous work by Chaucer is ____. 答案:The Canterbury Tales 23. The period from 1865-1914 has been referred to as the ____ in the literary history of the United States. 答案:Age of Realism 24. “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”is an epigrammatic line by ____. 答案:P.B.Shelley 25. Which of the following is NOT Shakespeare?s tragedy? A. The Merchant of Venice. B. King Lear C. Hamlet D. Othello 26. Leaves of Grass is written by ____. 答案:Walt Whitman 27. William Mak epeace Thackeray?s most famous work is ____. 答案:Vanity Fair 28. Dover Beach is written by ____. 答案:Matthew Arnold 29. The period of Old English Literature refers to ____. 答案:449-1066 30. Moby Dick is the most important work by ____. 答案:Herman Melville 31. O. Henry earned his fame mainly for his ____. 答案:short stories 32. The typical feature of Robert Browning?s poetry is the ____. 答案:dramatic monologue 33. ____ is the most famous novel of Francis Scott Fitzgerald? 答案:The Great Gatsby 34. Morte d? Arthur is a famous work by ____. 答案:Thomas Malory 1. Which of the following statements about language is NOT true? A. Language is a system. B. Language is symbolic. C. Animals also have languages. D. Language is arbitrary. 答案:C. Animals also have languages. 2.Which of the following choices is NOT a constituent? A. I like the song. B. I C. song D. 1ike 答案:A. I like the song. 3. Of the following sound combinations, only is ____ permissible. A. kibl B. bkil C. ilkb D. ilbk 答案:A. kibl 4. The relation between the determiner ……this” and the noun “man” in the phrase ……this man?? is ____. 答案:concord 5. The sentence that has an NP and a VP is mostly shown in a ____ formula “S→*NP+VP”. 答案:1inear 6. “Big” and “small” are a pair of ____ opposites. 答案:gradable 7. Which of the following phrases is exocentric? A. women and men B. on the table C. a clever boy D. an ugly man 答案:B. on the table 8. Arbitrariness of language was first discussed by ____. 答案:Saussure 9. Which pair of words is NOT a minimal pair? A. cat/bat B. put/but C. jig/pig D. sit/bit 答案:B. put/but 10. Which function is the major role of language? 答案:Informative 11. If two sounds are in complementary distribution, they are ____of the same phoneme. 答案:allophones 12. Which branch of study CANNOT be included in the scope of linguistics? A. Syntax. B. Pragmatics. C. Phonetics. D. Anthropology 答案:D. Anthropology 13. Atom is a word of ____ origin. 答案:Greek 14. The distinction of language and parole is made by ____. 答案:Saussure 15. ____ are bound morphemes because they cannot be used as separate words.答案:Affixes 16. ____ is the study of the relationship between symbols and their interpreter.答案:Pragmatics 17. ____is the defining properties of units like nouns (number, gender, case, etc.) and verbs (tense, aspect, voice, etc.). 答案:Categories 18. The noun “tear?? and the verb “tear” are ____. 答案:homographs 19. The ____ function of language is one of the most powerful uses of language because it is so crucial in changing the emotional status of an audience for or against someone or something. 答案:emotive 20. The term ____ may be defined as a way of referring to the approach which studies language changes over various periods of time and at various historical stages. 答案:diachronic linguistics 21. ____examines how meaning is encoded in a language.