专业八级考试部分试题及答案(1)
人文题：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
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