07年英語專業(yè)八級考試部分試題及答案(1)

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    31. The majority of the current population in the UK are decedents of all the following tribes respectively EXCEPT
    A. the Anglos
    B. the Celts
    C. the Jutes √
    D. the Saxons
    32. The Head of State of Canada is represented by
    A. the Monarch
    B. the President
    C. the Prime Minister
    D. the Governor-general √
    33. The Declaration of Independence was written by
    A. Thomas Jefferson √
    B. George Washington
    C. Alexander Hamilton
    D. James Madison
    34. The original inhabitants of Australia were
    A. the Red Indians
    B. the Eskimos
    C. the Aborigines √
    D. the Maoris
    35. Which of the following novels was written by Emily Bronte?
    A. Oliver Twist
    B. Middlemarch
    C. Jane Eyre
    D. Wuthering Heights √
    36. William Butler Yeats was a(n) ______ poet and playwright.
    A. American
    B. Canadian
    C. Irish √
    D. Australian
    37. Death of a Salesman was written by
    A. Arthur Miller √
    B. Ernest Hemingway
    C. Ralph Ellison
    D. James Baldwin
    38. _______ refers to the study of the internal structure of words and the rules of word formation.
    A. Phonology
    B. Morphology √
    C. Semantics
    D. Sociolinguistics
    39. The distinctive features of a speech variety may be all the following EXCEPT
    A. lexical
    B. syntactic
    C. phonological
    D. psycholinguistic √
    40. The word tail once referred to “the tail of a horse”, but now it is used to mean “the tail of any animal.” This is an example of
    A. widening of meaning √
    B. narrowing of meaning
    C. meaning shift
    D. loss of meaning