PART III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (10 MIN)
8 a% V" R6 f4 [ Y: f3 N! f4 ` There are ten multiple-choice questions in this section. Choose the best answer to each question. Mark your answers on your coloured answer sheet
# M# s9 W5 W% D8 o2 K% L$ B* R 31. The largest city in Canada is_______.
; y5 {, Y) ]/ Y2 E9 @4 |5 g2 o A. Vancouver. B. Montreal.5 Z2 O% t$ a) F8 P4 n& q: D" p
C. Toronto D. Ottawa.
( U* P% {) x4 O7 S ]. T" ~ 32. According to the United States Constitution, the legislative power is invested in________.# A z/ X8 C6 d( T: R W' W
A. the Federal Government. B. the Supreme Court.! n! W0 c% I, m( Z' ~. V
C. the Cabinet. D. the Congress.
+ G' b) g( I! W: M2 B 33. Which of the following is the oldest sport in the United States?
, y' f \( H# X. d A. Baseball. B. Tennis." u6 U+ I8 l% v& V- f
C. Basketball. D. American football.* V# v2 k8 S+ Z# S# k9 K, Q
34. The head of the executive branch in New Zealand is__________.0 C9 M7 z2 ?/ I6 ?
A. the President. B. the Governor-General.
7 r0 B% d. c* } C. the British monarch D. the Prime Minister.! X4 d8 A. ]3 z* m. \; _! I
35. The Canterbury Tales, a collection of stories told by a group of pilgrims on their way to Canterbury, is an important poetic work by__________.3 X- I( P) c* O2 G
A. William Langland. B. Geoffrey Chaucer.' Y. h/ s! H. w& c+ }2 S
C. William Shakespeare. D. Alfred Tennyson.; p2 O* p" z; y
36. Who wrote The American?
/ ]# w9 G. a- i% @2 D, j7 m2 i& S2 C A. Herman Melville. B. Nathaniel Hawthorne.
8 `9 X: T6 K+ l3 i" L C. Henry James. D. Theodore Dreiser.
* c, q' _, y: P ^/ o8 O n; u) F 37. All of the following are well-known female writers in 20th -century Britain EXCEPT_____.) R/ h( z( l; k: R$ B1 D
A. George Eliot. B. Iris Jean Murdoch.
0 B5 F! f3 N" \9 t' N; s3 @- z: \ C. Doris Lessing. D. Muriel Spark.
! k+ {; |4 }. u+ `$ L 38. Which of the following is NOT a design feature of human language?
( e& a' d+ N! \3 o9 L/ B A. Arbitrariness. B. Displacement.7 S7 k/ R9 Y4 l' }
C. Duality. D. Diachronicity.# U. ]5 h. ]; [8 p: K7 ]
39. What type of sentence is “Mark likes fiction, but Tim is interested in poetry.”?
9 f* b7 ^1 t6 a4 I" h A. A simple sentence. B. A coordinate sentence.
! d% X! N+ J) |+ M C. A complex sentence. D. None of the above.
; N& l1 L; u1 B. f 40. The phenomenon that words having different meanings have the same form is called______.$ c# d5 a/ h/ d6 @" F% D0 P
A. hyponymy. B. synonymy.
" x8 {5 z( n; b C. polysemy. D. homonymy.8 i& s. s% C+ H2 S2 Z M. H
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