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__1__Where is Edinburgh?
A In Wales B In Scotland
C In Northern Ireland D In Ireland
__2__ Which of the following is Not a U.S. news and cable network?
A ABC B CNN C CBS D BBC
__3__The Capital of Australia is __.
A Sydney B Melbourne C Canberra D Perth
__4__ Which degree is offered in community colleges in the United States?
A Master’s degree B Doctor’s degree
C Bachelor’s degree D Associate’s degree
__5__ George Bernard Shaw was a(n) __.
A playwright B poet C novelist D essayist
__6__ John Galsworthy was most famous for__.
A Heart of Darkness B Ulysses
C The Forsyste Saga D A Passage to India
__7__ The novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was written by__.
A Henry James B O. Henry
C Harriet Beccher Stower D Mark Twain
__8__The study of how sounds are put together and used to convey meaning in condition is__.
A morphology B general linguistics
C phonology D semantics
__9__Which of the following is NOT a compound word?
A Landlady B Greenhouse
C Uplift D Unacceptable
__10__ The word holiday originally meant holy day; but now the word signifies any which we don’t have to work. This is an example of __.
A meaning shift B widening of meaning
C narrowing of meaning D loss of meaning
參考答案：1-5 BDCDA 6-10 CDCDB
1. 選B. Wales的首府爲Cardiff, Scotland的`首府爲Edinburgh. Northern Ireland的首府Belfast, Ireland的首府爲Dublin.
2. 選 D。 BBC=British Broadcasting Corporation英國廣播公司, ABC=American Broadcasting Company, Inc美國的廣播公司; CNN= Cable News Network美國有線廣播公司, CBS= Columbia Broadcasting System哥倫比亞廣播公司
3. 選C。Sydney第一城市, 位於New South Wales州;Melbourne第二大城市位於Victoria州，Canberra位於Sydney與Melbourne之間;Perth位於Australia州 採集者退散
4. 選D。 Associate’s degree是準學士學位 (喵猜這個相當我們說的大專吧)來源：考試大
5. 選A。George Bernard Shaw (英國，蕭伯納)，愛爾蘭籍，劇作家，批評家，社會評論家，主要作品有Man and Superman, Back to Methuselah, Saint Joan <聖女貞德>，Arms and the Man, Pygmalion <賣花女>，獲得1925年諾貝爾文學獎。(喵，小云的上期文學七里香就是介紹了他噢)
6. 選C。John Galsworthy(英國),小說家，劇作家。主要作品有The Forsyte Saga<福塞特家史>，於1932年獲得了諾貝爾文學獎;Heart of Darkness,作者Joseph Conrad，波蘭籍英國小說家，另有Lord Jim <吉姆老爺>;Ulysses, 作者James Joyce, 愛爾蘭作家Finnergans Wake《爲芬尼根守靈》; A Passage to India，作者E.M. Forster,英國小說家，另有Howards End霍華德別業。
7. 選D。Mark Twain= Samuel Langhorne Clemens,作品有The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; Henry James, 主要作品有Ambassadors, The Golden Bowl; y= William Sydney Porter, 主要作品有Cabbages and Kings, Four Million; Harriet Beecher Stower, 其反奴隸制小說Uncle Tom’s Cabin，促進了廢奴運動發展。
8. 選C。Linguistics語言學, the study of human language,包括 Theoretical linguistic, Applied linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Cognitive linguistics和Historical linguistics.這裏主要考Theoretical linguistics.
9. 選D。是derivation.
10. 選B。 從any day就可以知道 widening of meaning.
