专业八级考试部分试题及答案

1. 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

2. The Head of State of Canada is represented by

A. the Monarch

B. the President

C. the Prime Minister

D. the Governor-general √

3. The Declaration of Independence was written by

A. Thomas Jefferson √

B. George Washington

C. Alexander Hamilton

D. James Madison

4. The original inhabitants of Australia were

A. the Red Indians

B. the Eskimos

C. the Aborigines √

D. the Maoris

5. Which of the following novels was written by Emily Bronte?

A. Oliver Twist

B. Middlemarch

C. Jane Eyre

D. Wuthering Heights √

6. William Butler Yeats was a（n） ______ poet and playwright.

A. American

B. Canadian

C. Irish √

D. Australian

7. Death of a Salesman was written by

A. Arthur Miller √

B. Ernest Hemingway

C. Ralph Ellison

D. James Baldwin

8. _______ refers to the study of the internal structure of words and the rules of word formation.

A. Phonology

B. Morphology √

C. Semantics

D. Sociolinguistics

9. The distinctive features of a speech variety may be all the following EXCEPT

A. lexical

B. syntactic

C. phonological

D. psycholinguistic √

10. 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