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Tests for General Knowledge
Test 1
IV. Choose the best to complete the sentence (10 points)
1. _____is regarded as the most successful religious allegory in the English language.
A .The Pilgrim’s Progress
B. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
C. The Life and Death of Mr.Badman
D. The Holy War
2. It is____ alone who, for the first time in English literature, present to us a comprehensive realistic picture of the English society of his time and created a whole galley of vivid characters from all walks of life.
A. Geoffrey Chaucer
B. Martin Luther
C. William Langland
D. John Gower
3.Which of the following stirred the world and helped form the American republic?
A. The American Crisis
B. The Federalist
C. Declaration of Independence
D. The Age of Reason
4. ______ tells a simple but very moving story in which four people living in a puritan community are involved in and affected by the sin of adultery in different ways.
A. Twice-told Tales
B. The Scarlet Letter
C. The House of the Seven Gables
D. The Marble Faun
5.Which of the following statements about language is NOT true?
https://www.wendangku.net/doc/fb12230380.html,nguage is a system.
https://www.wendangku.net/doc/fb12230380.html,nguage is symbolic.
C.Animals also have language.
https://www.wendangku.net/doc/fb12230380.html,nguage is arbitrary.
6.____is the branch of linguistics which studies the characteristics of speech sounds and
provides for their description, classification and transcription.
A. Phonetics
B. Phonology
C. Semantics
D. Pragmatics
7.____is the smallest unit of language in terms of relationship between expression and content.
A. Word
B. Morpheme
C. Allomorph
D. Root
8.The official name of England is ____.
A.the United Kingdom and North Ireland
B.the United Kingdom of Britain and North Ireland
C.the United Kingdom of Great Britain And Ireland
D.the United Kingdom of Great Britain and North Ireland
9.The real center of power in the British parliament is____ .
A.the king or the Queen
B.the Cabinet
C.the House of Lords
D.the House of Commons
10. The British established 13 colonies along____ between 1607 and 1733.
A. the west coast of North American
B. the west coast of South American
C. the east coast of North American
D. the east coast of South American
Key to Test 1
1. A A C B C 6. ABDDC
Test 2
IV. Choose the best to complete the sentence (10 points)
1. The U.S. President can do the following except ____.
A. appointing federal court judges
B. interpreting the Constitution
C. presiding over the government
D. vetoing laws passed by the Congress
2. President Jefferson bought____ from France and doubled the country?s territory.
A. Ohio
B. Florida
C. New Mexico
D. the Louisiana Territory
3. …The Beatles? is____ .
A. a classical music group
B. a popular music group
C. a drama organization
D. a football team
4. A word with several meanings is called____ word.
A. a polysemous
B. a synonymous
C. an abnormal
D. a multiple
5.The part of the grammar that represents a speaker?s knowledge of the structure of phrases and
sentences is called ____.
A. lexicon
B. morphology
C. syntax
D. semantics
6.Who put forward distinction between Language and Parole?
A. Saussure
B. Chomsky
C. Halliday
D. Anonymous
7.Who is the author of the work “The Grape of Wrath”?
A. John Steinbeck
B. Eugene O?Neil
C. F.Scott Fitzgerald
D. Theodore Dreiser
8. ___is often acclaimed literary spokesman of the Jazz Age.
A.Ernest Hemingway
B. F.Scoot Fitzgerald
C.William Faulkner
D.Ezra Pound
9. Generally speaking the Renaissance refers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries, its essence is ____
A. science
B. philosophy
C. Arts
D. Humanism
10. Daniel Defoe?s novels mainly focus on ___
A. the struggle of the unfortunate for mere existence
B. the struggle of the shipwrecked person for security
C. the struggle of the pirates for wealth
D. the desire of the criminal for property
Key to Test 2
1. BDBAC 6. AABDB
Test 3
IV. Choose the best to complete the sentence (10 points)
1. All of the following four except____(A) are the most eminent dramatists in the Renaissance England.
A. Francis Bacon B Christospher Marlowe C. William Shakespeare D. Ben Jonson
2. Thoreau was often alone in the woods or by the pond, lost in spiritual communication with ____(A)
A. nature (B)
B. transcendentalist ideas
C. human beings
D. celestial beings
3. ____is a phrase which can only be understood as a unit, not as a summation of the meaning of each constituent word.
A. Collocation
B. Idiom
C. Semantic component
D. Synonym
4. Which of the following features cannot characterize poems by Walt Whitman? (A)
A. lyrical and well-structured
B. free-flowing
C. simple and rather crude
D. conversational and casual
5. What is the most important function of language?(C)
A. Interpersonal
B. Phatic
C. Informative
D. Metalingual
6. General linguistics is the scientific study of ____(C)
A. language of a certain individual
B. the German language
C. human languages in general
D. the system of a particular language
7. Where is the primary stress of the word phonology?(B)
A. pho
B. no
C. lo
D. gy
8. The English people are __, and the Scots, Wales and Irish are __. (A)
A.Anglo-Saxons, Celts
B. Anglos, Saxons
C. Celts, Anglo-Saxons
D. Celts, Saxons
9.The religious leader of Church of English is (C).
A. Presbyterian
B. Anglican
C. Archbishop of Canterbury
D. Queen
10. The Gettysburg victory was the turning point of_____ (B).
A. the War of Independence
B. the Civil War
C. the War between the U.S. and Britain in 1812
D. the Indian Wars
Key to Test 3
1. AABAC 6. CBACB
Test 4
IV. Choose the best to complete the sentence (10 points)
1. _____, a famous leader of black movements in the U.S. in the 60s, advocated non-violent Civil Rights Movement.
A. Malcolm X.
B. Martin Luther KING, Jr.
C. Douglass
D. Garrison
2. Dickens? works are characterized by mingling of ___ and pathos.
A. metaphor
B. passion
C. satire
D. humor
3. Which of the following plays by Shakespeare is history play?
A. Julius Caesar.
B. The Marry Wives of Windsor.
C. Henry IV. C. King Lear.
4. ____ is regarded as the first American prose epic.
A. Nature
B. The Scarlet Letter
C. Walden
D. Moby-Dick
5.In the history of literature, Romanticism is regarded as ____
A.The thought that designates a literary and philosophical theory, which tends to see the
individual as the very center of all life and all experience.
B.The thought that designates man as a social animal.
C.The orientation that emphasizes those features which men have in common.
D.The modes of thinking.
6.____ is considered to be Theodore Dreiser?s greatest work.
A. An American Tragedy
B. Sister Carrie
C. The Financier
D. The Titan
7.What is the dual structure of language?
A.Sounds and letters.
B.Sounds and meaning.
C.Letters and meaning.
D.Sounds and symbols.
8.Which of the following sounds is a back vowel?
A. [i]
B. [w]
C. [e]
D. [u]
9.In the word conceive, the morpheme-ceive is a ____
A. free root
B. bound root
C. suffix
D. prefix
10.The Norman Conquests happened in ____
A. 55
B.
C. B. 1066. C. 700.
D. the 9th century
Key to Test 4
1. BDCDA 6. ABDBB
Test 5
IV. Choose the best to complete the sentence (10 points)
1._____ has the power to interpret the Constitution.
A. The President
B. The House of Representatives
C. The Supreme Court
D. The Senate
2. The longest war in the U.S. history is ____.
A. the Vietnam
B. the Civil War
C. the Gulf War
D. the War of Independence
3. Eton is a famous_____ of UK.
A. comprehensive school
B. publish school
C. college
D. university
4. The Hundred Years? War is the intermittent conflicts between ___and ___that lasted from 1337 to 1453.
A. France, England
B. England, Ireland
C. England, Rome
D. England, Scotland
5. “Big” and “Small” are a pair of____ opposites.
A. complementary
B. gradable
C. complete
D. converse
6. The relationship between “fruit ” and “apple” is____.
A. homonymy
B. hyponymy
C.polysemy
D. synonymy
7. ____ stems form the ambiguity of the speakers? choice between safety and the unknown.
a)Mending the Wall
b)Home Burial
c)The Road Not Taken
d)Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening
8.Who, one of the most important poets in his time, is a leading spokesman of the “Imagist
Movement”
A. J.D.Salinger.
B. Ezra Pound
C. Richard Wright
D. Ralph Ellison
9. Which of the following writings is not the work by Charles Dickens?
A. A Tale of Two Cities.
B. Hard Times.
C. Oliver Twist.
D. Sons and Lovers.
10. ____is a typical feature of Swift?s writing.
A. Elegant style
B. Casual narration
C. Bitter satire
D. Complicated sentence structure
Key to Test5
1. CABAB 6. BDBDC
Test 6
IV. Choose the best to complete the sentence (10 points)
1. Which of the following comments on William Blake is not true?
A. Childhood is central to Blake?s concern in the Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience.
B. Blake?s Marriage of Heaven and Hell marks his entry into maturity.
C. The Book of Loss is his masterpiece.
D. Symbolism in wide range is a distinctive feature of his poetry.
2．Of the following poets, which is not regarded as “Lake Poets”?
A. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
B. Robert Southy
C. William Wordsworth
D. William Shakespeare
3. I n American literature, the eighteenth century was the age of the Enlightenment. ____ was the dominant spirit.
A. Humanism
B. Rationalism
C. Revolution
D. Evolution
4. Washington Irving?s social conservation and literary for the past is revealed, to some extent, in his famous story, _____.
A. “The legend of Sleepy Hollow”.
B. “Rip V an Winkle”.
C. “The Custom-House”.
D. “The Birthmark”.
5. Sinclair Lewis’ Babbitt presents a documentary picture of the narrow and limited____.
A. up-class mind
B. middle-class mind
C. proletarian
D. ordinary people
6. Which of the following modes of study emphasizes on the “standards” of language?
A. Prescriptive
B. Descriptive
C. Synchronic
D. Diachronic
7. The distinction between competence and performance is proposed by____.
A. Saussure
B. Halliday
C. Chomsky
D. the Prague School
8. Which of the following words is created through the process of acronym?
A. ad
B. edit
C. AIDS
D. Bobo
9.____ defeated the Danes and came to an agreement with them in 879.
A. King Alfred
B. King Egbert
C. Edward the Confessor
D. King Harold
10. The largest state of US is ___.
A. Florida
B. Texas
C. Massachusetts
D. Nevada
Key to Test 6
1. CDBBB 6. ACCAB
Test7
1. ____were originally called Yankees, which came to stand for all Americans.
A. People living by the Mississippi River
B. People living in New England
C. People living in the age of …gold rush?
D. People living in Florida
2. ____forced Nixon to resign in 197
3.
A. The Watergate Scandal
B. The Little Rock Incident
C. the Montgomery bus boycott
D. The New Right
3. Christianity was first brought to England by ___.
A. the Normans
B. the Danes
C. the Romans
D. the Anglo-Saxons
4. Which of the following items is not one of the grammatical categories of English pronouns?
A. gender
B. number
C. case
D. voice
5. Usually, suprasegmental features include____ , length and pitch.
A. phoneme
B. speech sounds
C. syllables
D. stress
6. In Faulkner?s The Sound and the Fury, he used a technique called ____, in which the whole story was told through the thoughts of one character.
A. stream of consciousness
B. imagism
C. symbolism
D. naturalism
7. The book from which “all modern American literature comes” refers to ____.
A.The Great Gatsby
B.The Sun Also Rises
C.The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn
D.Moby-Dick
8. Stylistically, Henry James is characterized by____
A. highly refined language
B. ordinary American speech
C. short, clear sentences
D. abundance of local images
9. Of the following poems by T.S. Eliot, which is hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20th century English poetry?
A. Poems 1909-1925.
B. The Hollow Men.
C. Prufrock and Other Observations.
D. The Waste Land.
10. Alexander Pope strongly advocated ____, emphasized that literary works should be judged by classical rules of order, reason, logic, restrained emotion, good taste and decorum.
A. idealism
B. neoclassicism
C. romanticism
D. Sentimentalism
Key to Test7
1. BACDD 6. ACACB
Test8
IV. Choose the best to complete the sentence (10 points)
1. Francis Bacon is the best known for his ____ which greatly influenced the development of this literary form.
A. essay
B. poem
C. works
D. Plays
2. In the following descriptions of the Neoclassical Period, Which is wrong?
A. The Neoclassical Period is prior to the Romantic Period.
B. Henry Fielding is one of the representatives of the Neoclassical Period.
C. The modern English novel came into being in the Neoclassical Period.
D. The Neoclassical Period is also known as the Age of Enlightenment.
3. The main theme of Emily Dickinson is the following except ____.
A. religion
B. love and marriage
C. life and death
D. war and peace
4. ____is described by Mark Twain as a boy with “a sound heart and a deformed conscience.”
A. Tom Sawyer
B. Huckleberry Finn
C. Jim
D. Tony
5. Vibration of the vocal cords results in ____.
A. aspiration
B. nasality
C. obstruction
D. voicing
6. In 1588 when the English navy defeated the Spanish Armada, England is under the rule of___ .
A. Henry VIII
B. Elizabeth I
C. Queen Victoria
D. James II
7. The first immigrants in American history came from_____ .
A. England and the Netherlands
B. England and Australia
C. England and Ireland
D. England and France
8. …Baby boom? refers to the great increase of birth rate between ____.
A. 1946 and 1964
B.1860 and 1890
C. 1920 and 1935
D.1845 and 1854
9. In the Civil War, Lincoln issued the famous ____.
A. the Bill of Rights
B. the Federalist Papers
C. the Emancipation Proclamation
D. the Declaration of Independence
10.The maxim of___ requires that a participant?s contribution be relevant to the conversation.
A. quantity
B. quality
C. manner
D. relation
Key to Test8
1. ADDBD 6. BAACD
Test9
IV. Choose the best to complete the sentence (10 points)
1. ___ was the beginning of a long economic depression in the late 1920s and 1930s.
A. The stock markets crash
B. Roosevelt?s New Deal
C. The first World War
D. Wilson?s policy of New Freedom
2. ___ is considered American?s unique contribution to music.
A. Rock and Roll
B. Country Music
C. Jazz
D. Western Music
3. The semantic components of the word “gentleman” can be expressed as ___.
A.+animate, +male, +human,-adult
B.+animate, +male, +human, +adult
C.+animate, -male, +human, -adult
D.+animate, -male, +human, +adult
4. Chomsky holds that the major task of linguistics is to___ .
A. study real …facts? in daily settings
B. tell people how to speak appropriately
C. look for …the universal grammar?
D. tell people what is right in language use
5. Minimal pairs are used to___.
A.find the distinctive features of a language
B.find the phonemes of a language
https://www.wendangku.net/doc/fb12230380.html,pare two words
D.find the allophones of a language
6. Who is the author of the work “The Grape of Wrath”?
A. John Steinbeck
B. Eugene O?Neil
C. F.Scott Fitzgerald
D. Theodore Dreiser
7. The Transcendentalist group includes two of the most significant writers American has produced so far, Emerson and____.
A. Henry David Thoreau
B. Washington Irving
C. Nathaniel Hawthorne
D. Walt Whitman
8. _____ is Hemingway?s first true novel in which he depicts a vivid portrait of “The Lost Generation”.
A.The Sun Also Rises
B. A Farewell to Arms
C.In Our Time
D.For Whom the Bell Tolls
9. The term “metaphysical poetry”is commonly used to name the work of the 17th century writers who wrote under the influence of ___.
A. John Milton
B. John Donne
C. John Keats
D. John Bunyan
10. Of the following writings by James Joyce, which is a prime example of modernism in
literature?
A. Ulysses.
B. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
C. Dubliners.
D. Finnegans Wake
Key to Test 9
1. ACBCB 6. ADABA
Test 10
IV. Choose the best to complete the sentence (10 points)
1. Which of the following is used for oppositeness of meaning ?
A. Homonymy
B. Polysemy
C. Antonymy
D. Synonymy
2. Which of the following is a compound word?
A. conversation
B. comparable
C. entertaining
D. Sunflower
3. Saussure drew a distinction between ___ and descriptive studies.
A. historical
B. structural
C. synchronic
D. prescriptive
4. In Anglo-Saxon period, Beowulf represented the ___poetry.
A. pagan
B. religious
C. romantic
D. sentimental
5. What is Thackeray?s masterpiece?
A. The Virginians
B. Vanity Fair
C. The Books of Snobs
D. The Newcoomers
6 Frost is famous for his lyric poems. Which of the following lyric poem was not written by Frost?
A. After Apple-Picking
B. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
C. The Road Not Taken
D. Richard Cory
7. “The apparition of these faces in the crowd; petals on a wet, black bough.” This is the shortest poem written by____.
A. T.S. Eliot
B. Robert Frost
C. Ezra Pound
D. e. e. cummings
8. ____ compiled the “The Dictionary of the English language” which became the foundation of all the subsequent English dictionaries.
A. Ben Johnson
B. Samuel Johnson
C. Alexander Pope
D. John Dryden
9. Which of the following odes was not written by Keats?
A. Ode to the West Wind
B. Ode to a Nightingale
C. Ode to Autumn
D. Ode to a Grecian Urn.
10. A____ consists of a vowel sound, either on its own or in the company of one or more consonant sounds.
A. syllable
B. phone
C. phoneme
D. morpheme
Key to Test 10
1. C D D C B 6. D C B A A