2006英语专业八级考试全真试题附答案

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There are ten multiple-choice questions in this section.Choose the best answers to each question.
Mark your answers on your coloured answer sheet.

31.The Presidents during the American Civil War was
A. Andrew Jackson
B. Abraham Lincoln
C. Thomas Jefferson
D. George Washington

32.The capital of New Zealand is
A.Christchurch
B.Auckland
C.Wellington
D.Hamilton

33.Who were the natives of Austrilia before the arrival of the British settlers?
A.The Aborigines
B.The Maori
C.The Indians
D.The Eskimos

34.The Prime Minister in Britain is head of
A.the Shadow Cabinet
B.the Parliament
C.the Opposition
D.the Cabinet

35.Which of the following writers is a poet of the 20th century?
A.T.S.Eliot
B.D.H.Lawrence
C.Theodore Dreiser
D.James Joyce

36.The novel For Whom the Bell Tolls is written by
A.Scott Fitzgerald
B.William Faulkner
C.Eugene O'Neil
D.Ernest Hemingway

37._____ is defined as an expression of human emotion which is condensed into fourteen lines
A.Free verse
B.Sonnet
C.Ode
D.Epigram

38.What essentially distinguishes semantics and pragmatics is the notion of
A.reference
B.meaning
C.antonymy
D.context

39.The words"kid,child,offspring" are examples of
A.dialectal synonyms
B.stylistic synonyms
C.emotive synonyms
D.collocational synonyms

40.The distinction between parole and langue was made by
A.Halliay
B.Chomsky
C.Bloomfield
D.Saussure