专八人文知识模拟试题(11)

1、In Britain, ___ has the ultimate authority of legislation.
A the Queen
B the House of Commons
C the House of Lords
D the Prime Minister
2、The three largest cities in Canada do NOT include.
A Toronto
B Quebec
C Ottawa
D Vancouver
3、Aboriginal culture in Australia is said to be more than ___ years old.
A 20,000
B 30,000
C 40,000
D 50,000
4、 It is known that Irish landscape in featured by ___.
A bogs
B mountains
C grassland
D rivers
5、The following plays are comedies by Shakespeare EXCEPT ___.
A A Midsummer Night’s Dream
B As You Like It
C The Merchant of Venice
D Romeo and Juliet
6、 “The novel is structured around the discovery of the hero’s origin.” Probably this refers to the novel ___.
A Wuthering Heights
B The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
C David Copperfield
D Gulliver’s Travels
7、___ was considered to be the greatest dramatist in the 18th century.
A Henry Fielding
B Laurence Sterne
C Oliver Goldsmith
D Richard B. Sheridan
8、The branch of linguistics that studies how context influences the way speakers interpret sentences is called ___.
A pragmatics
B semantics
C sociolinguistics
D psycholinguistics
9、Which of the following words can connect two clauses in a coordinate sentence?
A Through
B When
C But
D If
10、Which of the following is NOT considered part of semantic change?
A Semantic broadening
B Compounding
C Semantic narrowing
D Semantic shift