英语专业八级人文知识 第41讲

【练习】

1. ___ is the capital of Scotland.
　　A Dublin B Edinburgh C Cardiff D New Castle

2. In history, Romans occupied Britain for about ___ years.
　　A 700 B 600 C 500 D 400

3. You can find the Grand Canyon in the State of ___.
　　A Arizona B California C New Mexico D Chicago

4. Around ___ of New Zealanders are found in North Island.
　　A 3/4 B 1/2 C 3/5 D 2/5

5.  In his novel Robinson Crusoe. Defoe portrayed successfully an image of an enterprising Englishman, typical of the English bourgeoisie in the ___ century.
　　A 16th B 17th C 18th D 19th

6. In his works, Defoe praised the industrious, sturdy ___ and showed his sympathy for the downtrodden, unfortunate poor.
　　A working people B aristocrats C middle-class people D capitalist upstarts

7. To some extent, the Romantic Movement revealed a ___ attitude toward the social and political conditions then.
　　A positive B negative C neutral D prejudiced

8. In semantic studies, ___ refers to the inherent meaning of the linguistic form.
　　A sense B synonym C homonym D reference

9. A linguistic situation in which two standard languages are used either by an individual or by a group of speakers is called ___.
　　A situational dialect B slang C linguistic taboo D bilingualism

10. Syntactic change includes all the following EXCEPT ___.
　　A rule loss B affix loss C rule addition D rule change