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专业英语八级词汇-24
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[单项选择]The transformational-generative grammar was proposed by
A. John Austin.
B. Noam Chomsky.
C. John Searle.
D. D. M.K. Halliday.
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[单项选择]Yellow Stone National Park is located in
A. the northern part of Wyoming.
B. the western part of Wyoming.
C. the southern part of Wyoming.
D. the eastern part of Wyoming.
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[单项选择]The famous short story The Fall of the House of Usher was written by
A. Charles Dickens.
B. Edgar Allen Poe.
C. John Richardson.
D. Henry Savery.
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[单项选择]John Dryden was all of the following EXCEPT
A. a literary critic.
B. a short story writer.
C. a poet.
D. a dramatist.
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[单项选择]Pride and Prejudice is one of the best known novels written by
A. Anne Bronte.
B. Jane Austen.
C. Mary Shelly.
D. Robert Southey.
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[单项选择]The study of how sounds are put together and used to convey meaning in communication is
A. morphology.
B. general linguistics.
C. phonology.
D. semantics.
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[单项选择]What is regarded as the first American prose epic
A. Nature.
B. The Scarlet Letter.
C. Walden.
D. Moby Dick.
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[单项选择]Speech ______ refers to any distinguishable form of speech used by a speaker.
A. change
B. act
C. variety
D. usage
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[单项选择]Which of the following is NOT one of the "Lake Poets"
A. Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
B. John Keats.
C. William Wordsworth.
D. Robert Southey.
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[单项选择]The oldest British daily newspaper is
A. Daily Express.
B. The Times.
C. Financial Times.
D. The Observer.
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[单项选择]The Parliament of Canada consists of the Senate and
A. the House of Lords.
B. the House of Commons.
C. the Upper House.
D. the House of Representatives.
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[单项选择]The city of ______, which was formerly known as Port Jackson is the place of the earliest colonial settlement in Australia.
A. Melbourne
B. Sydney
C. Perth
D. Darwin
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[单项选择]According to the componential analysis, the words "boy" and "man" differ in the feature of
A. adult.
B. male.
C. human.
D. gender.
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[单项选择]Who 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.
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[单项选择]The word "tofu" is a ______ one.
A. clipped
B. blended
C. derived
D. borrowed
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[单项选择]Apart from Paris, France, Montreal is regarded as the largest ______ city in the world, known as "Paris the Second".
A. Spanish-speaking
B. Portuguese-speaking
C. German-speaking
D. French-speaking
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[单项选择]Which of the following is NOT the change in the meaning of words
A. Specification of meaning.
B. Narrowing of meaning.
C. Meaning-shift.
D. Widening of meaning.
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[单项选择]The subject area of ______ is on the borders of linguistics and literature.
A. mathematical linguistics
B. anthropological linguistics
C. neurolinguistics
D. linguistic stylistics
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[单项选择]______ is the heart of century-old French presence in North America.
A. Quebec
B. Alberta
C. Ontario
D. Nova Scotia
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[单项选择]The word "smog" comes from "smoke+fog". This is an example of ______ in morphology.
A. backformation
B. conversion
C. blending
D. acronym
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[单项选择]The novel Gulliver’s Travels was written by
A. John Bunyan.
B. Jonathan Swift.
C. Tobias Smollett.
D. Laurence Sterne.
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[单项选择]The word "motherland" is a(n)
A. clipped word.
B. compound.
C. blended word.
D. acronym.
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[单项选择]Which of the following figures does NOT belong to "The Lost Generation"
A. Ezra Pound.
B. William Carlos Williams.
C. Robert Frost.
D. Theodore Dreiser.
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[单项选择]The District of Manhattan is in the city of
A. New York.
B. Chicago.
C. San Francisco.
D. D. Washington D..
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[单项选择]Most of Thomas Hardy’s novels are set in Wessex,
A. a crude region in England.
B. a fictional primitive region.
C. a remote rural area.
D. Hardy’s hometown.
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[单项选择]______ forms a natural boundary between Mexico and the United States.
A. The Ohio River
B. The Mississippi River
C. The Rio Grande River
D. The Ruhr River
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[单项选择]George Bernard Shaw was a(n)
A. playwright.
B. poet.
C. novelist.
D. essayist.
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[单项选择]The general election in Britain is held every ______ years.
A. three
B. four
C. five
D. six
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[单项选择]The term "Father of Waters" is used to refer to ______ in the US.
A. the Nile River
B. the Amazon River
C. the Hudson River
D. the Mississippi River
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[单项选择]A(n) ______ is a phonetic unit or segment.
A. phone
B. phoneme
C. allophone
D. sound
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[单项选择]The victory at ______ was the turning point of the American Civil War.
A. Gettysburg
B. Philadelphia
C. Louisiana
D. Gadsden
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[单项选择]In 1954, ______ was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature for his "mastery of the art of modern narration".
A. T. S. Eliot
B. Ernest Hemingway
C. John Steinbeck
D. William Faulkner
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[单项选择]The ______ victory was a great turning point of the War of Independence.
A. New York City
B. Trenton
C. Saratoga
D. New Jersey
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[单项选择]The relationship between "begin" and "commence" is
A. semantically different synonyms.
B. collocational synonyms.
C. dialectal synonyms.
D. stylistic synonyms.
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[单项选择]Which of the following is NOT a natural zone of Scotland
A. The highlands in the north.
B. The central lowlands.
C. The east uplands.
D. The south uplands.
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[单项选择]The ______ are the fastest growing racial and ethnic group in the United States.
A. Asian-Americans
B. Mexico-Americans
C. blacks
D. Indians
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[单项选择]Ezra Pound’s major work of poetry is the long poem called
A. Polite Essays.
B. Make It New.
C. High Selwyn Mauberley.
D. The Cantos.
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[单项选择]______ is known as the automobile capital of the world.
A. London
B. Los Angeles
C. Toronto
D. Detroit
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[单项选择]John Steinbeck, author of ______, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962.
A. The Grapes of Wrath
B. Invisible Man
C. The Winds of War
D. To Kill a Mockingbird
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[单项选择]Classification of vowels are made according to all the following EXCEPT
A. the openness of the mouth.
B. the position of the tongue.
C. the shape of the lip.
D. the sound of the vowels.
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[单项选择]______ is the capital of Wales.
A. Dublin
B. Edinburgh
C. Cardiff
D. New Castle
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[单项选择]The criteria to determine a word’s category include all the following EXCEPT
A. inflection.
B. distribution.
C. meaning.
D. style.
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[单项选择]Around ______ of New Zealanders are found in North Island.
A. 3/4
B. 1/2
C. 3/5
D. 2/5
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[单项选择]The Rabbit series were written by
A. Ezra Pound.
B. Mark Twain.
C. Sinclair Lewis.
D. John Updike.
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[单项选择]Which of the following languages is NOT spoken in Scotland
A. English.
B. Scottish.
C. Gaelic.
D. Denish.
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[单项选择]The same word has the same ______ meaning to all the speakers of the same language.
A. conceptual
B. lexical
C. affective
D. associative
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[单项选择]The Statue of Liberty was given to American people by ______ as a gift.
A. Britain
B. France
C. Canada
D. Italy
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[单项选择]"The Vanity Fair" is a well-known part in
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.
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[单项选择]It was ______ who brought Christianity to Britain.
A. the Dutch
B. the French
C. the Roman
D. the Spanish
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[单项选择]The dialect which is influenced by social status is
A. regional dialect.
B. idiolect.
C. sociolect.
D. ethnic dialect.