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