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今日话题：辅音如何分类 1. 发音部位（places of articulation）：双唇音(bilabial)、唇齿音(labiodental)、齿间音(dental)等； 2.发音方法(manners of articulation)：、爆破音(stop)、摩擦音(fricatives)、破擦音(affricates)、鼻音(nasal)、边音(lateral)等； 3.声带状态：清辅音、浊辅音。 因此更正第七期第十道 10. English consonants can be classified into stops, fricatives, nasals, etc, in terms of _ A manner of articulation B openness of mouth C place of articulation D voicing 选择A而不是C 1. St. Lawrence and River Columbia are shared by both _ A America and Mexico B America and Canada C America and Cuba D America and Brazil 2. European settlement of Australia began in the late part of _ when a British penal colony was established on the east coast of the continent. A the 16th century B the 17th century C the 18th century D the 19th century 3. Which sport is supposed to be Americas national sport and used to be call “Americans favorable pastime”? A baseball B basketball C rugby D cricket 4. The largest city in New Zealand is _ A Auckland B Wellington C Christchurch D Dunedin 5. After Adam Bede,_wrote The Mill on the Floss and Silas Marner in which moral problems are discussed and psychological analysis of characters are emphasized. A George Eliot B Jane Austin C George Dickens D Charlotte Bronte 6.All of the following odes are written by John Keats EXCEPT_ A Ode to Autumn B Ode to a Nightingale C Ode to a Skylark D Ode on Melancholy 7. Of_s four famous comedies, the best known is Lady Windermeres Fan. A Oscar Wilde B Richard Sheridan C Bernard Shaw D Somerset Maugham 8. If the air stream meets with no obstruction when a sound is pronounced, it is a(n) _ A voiced consonant B voiceless consonant C vowel D explosive 9. The internationally accepted system of phonetic transcription is _ A I.P.A B I.A.P.S C I.S.S D S.S.I.P 10. With the _, Latin words were added into the vocabulary of the language spoken in Britain. A invasion of the Romans B Christianization of Britain C Scandinavian invasion D Norman Conquest 答案 BCAAA CACAB 9. 国际音标（international phonetic alphabet）是目前世界上比较通行的音标，简称IPA，最初制定于1886年。 转贴于：TEM考试_考试大【责编:虫 纠错】每天第一个迎接新一天的国家是哪个呢？ 新西兰，由于新西兰整个国家非常狭窄，所以新西兰的任何地方距离海洋都不超过110公里，全国只有一个时区。新西兰正好位于国际日期变更线以西的第一个时区，所以它是第一个迎接新一天的国家。 1.Itwasduring_reignthatthenameGreatBritaincameintobeing. AMarysBAnnesCJameIIsDOliverCromwell 2.WhereisEdinburgh? AInWalesBInScotlandCInNorthernIrelandDInIreland 3.OneofthemostfamousnationalparksintheU.S.isthe_ AYellowstoneNationalParkBHydePark CKakaduNationalParkDAmericanFishingCenter 4.NewZealandisjustwestoftheInternationalDateLine,soitisthefirstcountrytoget_ AfrozenBwetCthenewdayDunited 5.Mr.Darcyisacharacterin_ ATessoftheDUrbervillesBPrideandPrejudiceCHappyPrinceDTheMillontheFloss 6.LyricalBalladsisthejointworkbetweenWordsworthandhisfriend_ AColeridgeBBryonCKeatsDShelly 7._istherepresentativeworkoftheJazzAge ATheGreatGatsbyBOntheRoadCLookBackinAngerDTheSunAlsoRises 8.Thedistinctionoflangueandparoleismadeby_ AHallBSapirCChomskyDSaussure 9._examineshowmeaningisencodedinalanguage. ASemanticsBSyntaxCPragmaticsDMorphology 10.Thesentence“Iapologize!”belongstothecategoryof_accordingtothespeechacttheory. A.expressiveBperformativeCrepresentativeDconstative 答案 BBACBAADABconstative为叙述句performative为施为句美国人口构成 1.ThepopulationoftheUnitedStatesisabitmorethan272million,about13%ofwhichareBlack,12%areHispanic(讲西班牙语的人)，4%areAsianandtherestareWhiteAmericans. 2.ItisthethirdmostpopulouscountryintheworldafterChinaandIndia. 3.ThemostpopulousstatesareCalifornia,Texas,NewYork,FloridaandIllinois. 4.Morethan80%ofAmericansliveinurbanareas. 巩固：按照人口数量排列，美国在世界排在第几位；按照面积排，美国又是排第几位呢？ 1.Christmasisusuallyconnectedto_ AthereunionofalargefamilyBtheeatingofEastereggs CtheresurrectionofChristDtheforgivingofotherssins 2.ThelargestoftheethnicminoritiesinAmericais_ AtheblacksBtheMexico-Americans CtheSpanish-AmericansDtheChinese 3.TheBritishestablish_coloniesalongtheeastcoastofNorthAmericanbetween16.7and1733. A.11B12C13D14 4.ThelargestuniversityinCanadais_ ALavalUniversityBTheUniversityofToronto CMcGillUniversityDSimonFraserUniversity 5.RobinsonCrusoeiswrittenby_ AHenryFieldingBDanielDefoeCSamuelRichardsonDJonathanSwift 6._iswrittenbyWaltWhitman. ARepresentativeMenBEnglishTraitsCNatureDLeavesofGrass 7._isnotanovelist. AHenryJamesBEmilyDickinsonCWilliamDeanHowellsDMarkTwain 8._isnotoneofthecorebranchesoflinguistics. APhonologyBPsycho-linguisticsCSyntaxDSemantics 9._isthecommonfactorofthethreesounds:p,t,k AvoicelessBspreadCvoicedDnasal 10.Englishconsonantscanbeclassifiedintostops,fricatives,nasals,etc,intermsof_ AmannerofarticulationBopennessofmouth CplaceofarticulationDvoicing 按面积计算，美国继俄罗斯，加拿大，中国之后位居第四。 按人口计算，美国继中国，印度后，居第三。 答案ACCBBDBBAA 转贴于：练习题： 1.ThenationalepicoftheAnglo-Saxonsis_. ARobinHoodBSirGawainandtheGreenKnight CTheCanterburyTalesDBeowulf 2._wasthemostoutstandingsingleromanceontheArthurianlegendwritteninalliterativeverse. ATheCanterburyTalesBPiersthePlowman CSirGawainandtheGreenKnightDBeowulf 3._wasthemostfamousforTheCanterburyTales. AGeoffreyChaucerBJohnMilton CWilliamShakespeareDFrancisBacon 4.Mostoftheballadsofthe5thcenturyfocusedonthelegendabout_asaheroicfigure. AGreenNightsBGawain CRobinHoodDHamlet 5.Inthe16thcentury,ThomasMoreswork_becameimmediatelypopularafteritspublication. AParadiseLostBAPleasantSatireoftheThreeEstates COfBeautyDUtopia 6._wasEdmundSpencersmasterpiecewhichhasbeenregardedasoneofthegreatpoemsintheEnglishlanguage. AAmorettiBTheShepherdsCalendar CTheFaerieQueenDFourHymns 7._isfromShakespearessonnetNo.18. A“Letmenottothemarriageoftrueminds” B“Tobeornottobe:thatisthequestion” C“ShallIcomparetheetoasummersday” D“NolongermournformewhenIamdead” 8.Thevividportrayalof_byShakespeareinHenryIVhasearnforhimanenviableplaceinthehistoryofEnglishliterature. AJuliusCaesarBFalstaffCHamletDKingHenry 9.ThefourgreattragedieswrittenbyShakespeareareHamlet,Macbeth,Othelloand_. A.AntonyandCleopatraB.JuliusCaesar CTwelfthNightDKingLear 10.WhichofthefollowingdoesnotbelongtoShakespearesromanticlovecomedies? ATwelfthNightBTheTempest CAsYouLikeItDTheMerchantofVenice 练习题答案及题解: 1.D贝奥武夫是英国一部著名的英国史诗，也是英国文学中的一部重要作品，用古英语写成。 2.C高文爵士和绿衣以亚瑟王和他的骑士为题材，歌颂勇敢、忠贞、美德，是中古英语传奇文学最优秀的作品之一。 3.Chaucer被誉为“英国诗歌之父”，他的代表作是坎特伯雷故事集，它是以本土文学为主流的英国书面文学历史开始的重要标志。 4.C英国15十几民谣大部分是关于流传于英国民间家喻户晓的传奇人物罗宾汉和他的伙伴们的故事。民谣中的罗宾汉是一个仗义疏财，劫富济贫的绿林好汉。 5.D托马斯.莫尔是英国重要的早期人文主义者。他的著作乌托邦勾画出了一个社会平等，财产共有，人民和谐相处的理想大同国。 6.C长诗仙后是英国杰出诗人EdmundSpencer的杰作，它是英国诗歌创作的典范。Spencer在仙后一诗中创造了著名的“斯宾塞诗体”，其影响深远。 7.C“ShallIcomparetheetoasummersday”源自莎士比亚著名的第十八首诗。 8.B喜剧人物福斯坦福是莎士比亚在亨利四世中创造的一个为百姓喜闻乐见的不朽的艺术形象。福斯坦福是个50多岁的破落骑士，爱冒险又胆怯，喜欢吹牛又贪婪，说谎欺诈，浑水摸鱼，无所不能。同时他生性幽默，喜剧情节和笑料通过他的所言所行妙趣横生。 9.D莎士比亚的四大悲剧一般指：Hamlet，Macbeth，Othello以及KingLear。 10.BTheTempest是莎士比亚后期一部浪漫主义传奇剧，莎士比亚在创作中坚持人文主义理想，以宽恕仁爱为主要精神，期创作风格添加了不少浓郁的浪漫空幻色彩。 转练习题： 1.GoldRushwasvividlydepictedin_novels. AHemingwaysBMarkTwainsCHenryJamesDFaulkners 2.TheperiodofOldEnglishliteratuerefersto_ A449-1066 B14thcentury-mid17thcentury C14thcentury-mid18thcentury D16thcentury-mid18thcentury 3.ThegreattranscendentalworkbyHenryDavidThoreauis_ ANatureBWaldenCExperienceDEssays 4._hasbeenentitledtheFatherofAmericanPoetry. APhilipFreneauBRalphWaldoEmersonCWilliamCullenBryantDWaltWhitman 5.Theemotionaleffectandsocialsignificancemade_thefirstwell-knownsociologicalnovelinAmericanLiterature. ATheSunAlsoRisesBUncleTomsCabin CTheOldManandTheSeaDSisterCarrie 6.StephenCraneisfamousfor_ AAnAmericanTragedyBTheAmbassadors CMainStreetDTheRedBadgeofCourage 7.WhichofthefollowingisNOTtrueforBenjaminFranklin? AHewasafamouswriterBHewasamembertodrafttheDeclarationofIndependence CHewasagreatscientistDHewasonceelectedAmericanPresident 8.WhitmanspoemsarecharacterizedbyallthefollowingfeaturesEXCEPT_ AastrictpoeticformBasimpleandconversationallanguageCafreeandnaturalrhythmicpatternDaneasyflowoffeelings 9.Americanfictioninthe1960sisreteredtoas_ AimagismBblackhumorCnewfictionDtheBeatGeneration 10.WilliamFaukeneristheauthorof_ AFarFromtheMaddingCrowdBSoundandFuryCForWhomtheBellTollsDScarletLetter 练习题答案及题解: 1.B马克吐温的很多短篇小说对GoldRush（淘金）进行了很形象的描绘。 2.AAnglo-Saxons所说的语言被称为古英语，Anglo-Saxons是在五世纪中侵入英国领土的，直到1066年诺曼公爵政府英格兰，建立诺曼底王朝，才代替了Anglo-Saxons。 3.B瓦尔登湖是梭罗最杰出的超验主义作品。 4.APhilipFreneau（1752-1832）被称为“美国诗歌之父”。著有：ThewildHoneySuckle；ToTheMemoryofBraveAmericans。 5.B汤姆叔叔家的小屋是美国文学史上第一部揭示黑人被虐待，宣扬反奴隶制度的小说，激发了社会各界人士的感情，是一部社会性质很强的小说。 6.DTheRedBadgeofCourage红色英勇勋章是StephenGrane的代表作。 7.DBenjaminFranklin是伟大的作家，科学家，还是美国独立宣言的撰写人之一，但是未曾担任过美国总统。 8.AWhitman主张自由诗体，认为诗歌不应该收到格律约束。他的代表作草叶集标志着真正意义上美国诗歌的诞生。 9.B黑色幽默是二十世纪六十年代盛行的小说类型，用幽默的手法来揭示可悲的现实。 10.BFarFromtheMaddingCrowd为托马斯哈代的作品；ForWhomtheBellTolls为海明威的作品；ScarletLetter为霍桑的作品。练习题： 1 As a philosophical and literary moment, _ flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War. A modernism B rationalism C sentimentalism D transcendentalism 2 Poes first collection of stories is _. A Tales of Traveler B Leather Stocking Tales C Canterbury Tales D Tales of the Goteque and Arabesque 3 Which book is not written by Emerson? A The American Scholar B Self-Reliance C Nature D Civil Disobedience 4 The finest example of Hawthorns symbolism is the recreation of Puritan Boston in _. A The Scarlet Letter B Young Goodman Brown C The Marble Fawn D The Ambitious Guest 5 The chief spokesman of New England Transcendentalism is _. A Nathaniel Hawthorn B Ralph Waldo Emerson C Henry David Thoreau D Washington Irving 6 Transcendentalists recognized _ as the “highest power of the soul”. A intuition B logic C data of senses D thinking 7 Which is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”? A The American Scholar B English Traits C The Conduct of Life D Representative Men 8 American literature produced only one female poet during the nineteenth century. This was _. A Anne Bradstreet B Jane Austin C Emily Dickinson D Harriet Beecher 9 Captain, My Captain is written for _. A Lincoln B Whitman C Washington D Hemingway 10 _ is not written by Washington Irving. A The Sketch Book B Rip Van Winkle C The Legend of Sleep Hollow D The Autobiography 练习题答案及题解: 1 D, 从19世纪30年代到内战期间的主要文学流派是超验主义，以爱默生为代表。 2 D, 坡的第一部故事集是怪诞奇异故事集。 3 D, 论市民之不服从是梭罗的作品。其他全为爱默生的作品。 4 A, 霍桑作品中的象征主义手法主要体现在他的著作红字中。 5 B, 超验主义以爱默生为代表。 6 A, 超验主义认为人类精神的最高力量存在于人的直觉中。 7 A, 被称为“美国精神独立宣言”的是爱默生的美国学者。书中表达了美国人追求自己的文化独立以及文学独立身份的要求。 8 C, 19世纪美国的杰出女诗人是艾米莉迪金森（18301886）。 9 A, 阿，船长啊，我的船长！是惠特曼为纪念林肯总统而作的。 10 D, 见闻札记、睡谷的传说、瑞普凡温克尔都是华盛顿欧文的作品，但是自传是本杰明富兰克林的作品。 转贴于：TEM考试_考试大【责编:虫 纠错】练习题： 1 How many members are there in the House of Commons? A 650 B 524 C 72 D 651 2 Which of the following people didnt use to be the British Prime Minister? A Margaret Thatcher B Winston Churchill C Horatio Nelson D John Major 3 By tradition, the leader of the majority party is appointed _ by the Sovereign in the United Kingdom. A Prime Minister B Member of Parliament C Lord of appeal D Speaker of the House 4 The Tories were the forerunners of _, which still bears this nickname today. A the Labour Party B the Conservative Party C the Liberal Party D the Social Democratic Party 5 In the United Kingdom, the party which wins the _ number of seats in the House of Commons becomes the official Opposition. A largest B second largest C third largest D fourth largest 6 The term “British disease” is now often used to characterize Britains _ decline. A political B educational C military D economic 7 The 1980s was remembered as the decade of _. A globalization B nationalization C privatization D competition 8 Today, in Britain, _ is called a “sick” industry. A coal mining B iron and steel C textiles D shipbuilding 9 The first steam engine was devised by Thomas Newcomer at the end of the 17th century, and the Scottish inventor _ modified and improved the design in 1765. AAbraham Darby B James Watt C John Kay D Richard Arkwrightthe 10 _ created the industrial working class, the proletariat, and it later led to trade unionism. A The Chartist Movement B The Industrial Revolution C The French Revolution D The Glorious Revolution 练习题答案及题解: 1 D, 下议院共有651名议员。 2 C, 撒切尔夫人，丘吉尔和梅杰都曾经做过英国首相；而纳尔逊（1758-1805），英国海军统帅，因作战负伤，右眼失明，失去右臂。后任地中海舰队司令，在特法尔加角海战中大败西班牙联合舰队，本人受重伤阵亡，号称 Viscount Nelson。 3 A, 在英国，按照传统，多数党的领导人由君主任命为首相，首相从本党内部挑选一些领导人担任各部部长职位。 4 B, 托利党是英国保守党的前身。 5 B, 在英国，在下议院中赢得第二席位的政党为反对党，它也有它自己的领导和影子内阁（shadow cabinet）。 6 D, 现在“英国病”这一术语经常用来指英国经济上的衰退。 7 C, 正如20世纪40年代被看作是国有化的时代一样，20世纪80年代被看作是私有化的时代。包括英国石油、航空、钢铁、电讯在内的几乎40% 的国有公司实现了私有化。 8 A, 英国煤矿业被称为生病工业。英国的煤产量在一战前达到顶点，如今的英国的煤矿业衰退，从而导致矿工的数量、煤矿的总产量大大下降。 9 B, 第一台蒸汽机是 Thomas Newcomer 在17世纪末设计的，后来苏格兰发明家瓦特在1765年对原有的设计进行了改进提高，生产出了第一台高效的蒸汽机并应用到纺织和其他机械业中。 10 B, 工业革命产生了工人阶级，即无产阶级。后来形成了工会制度。练习题： 1WhichpoemisnotwrittenbyFreneau? ATheBritishPrisonShipBTheWildHoneySuckle CTheIndianBuryingGroundDTheFloodofYears 2ThomasJeffersonsattitude,thatis,afirmbeliefinprogress,andthepursuitofhappiness,istypicaloftheperiodwenowcall_. AAgeofEvolutionBAgeofReason CAgeofRomanticismDAgeofRegionalism 3WhichofthefollowingisNOTonepartoftheLeatherStockingTalesbyCooper? ATheSpyBThePathfinderCThePioneersDTheDeerslayer 4WhichstatementaboutThoreauisNOTright? AHewasaloverofnature. BHewasparticularkindofromantic. CHewaspolemicist. DHewasathoroughtranscendentalist. 5Whichofthefollowinghasbeencalled“themanifestoofAmericanTranscendentalism”? ADivinitySchoolAddressBSelf-reliance CNatureDTheAmericanScholar 6Asaphilosophicalandliterarymovement,_flourishedinNewEnglandfromthe1830stotheCivilWar. AsentimentalismBtranscendentalismCmodernismDrationalism 7TheperiodbeforetheAmericanCivilWarisgenerallyreferredtoas_. AtheModernPeriodBtheRealisticPeriod CtheRomanticPeriodDtheNaturalistPeriod 8AllthefollowingaretheworksbyNathanielHawthorneEXCEPT_. ATheMarbleFaunBTypee CTheScarletLetterDMossesfromanOldManse 9WhichofthefollowingisnotaworkofEmilyDicksons? AIHeardaFlyBuzzwhenIDied. BTheRaven CThisisMyLettertotheWorld. DILiketoSeeitLaptheMiles. 10WhitmanspoemsarecharacterizedbyallthefollowingfeaturesEXCEPT_. Athestrictpoeticform Bthefreeandnaturalrhythm Ctheeasyflowoffeelings Dthesimpleandconversationallanguage 练习题答案及题解: 1D,似水流年是布莱恩特的作品。其他全为弗伦诺的作品。 2B,“理性时代”。 3A,TheSpy不属于皮靴子系列。 4C,梭罗崇尚自然生活简单，与世无争，不入尘嚣。 5C,超验主义的宣言是Nature一书的发表。 6B,19世纪30年代到内战期间是超验主义，以爱默生等为代表。 7C,内战前是浪漫主义。 8B,Typee是HermanMelville的作品，其他全为霍桑的。 9B,TheRaven大乌鸦是艾伦坡的作品。其他全为艾米莉的。 10A,惠特曼的诗自由、清新、琅琅上口、易于理解，但并不是按照严格的格律来写。1. 发音部位（places of articulation）：双唇音(bilabial)、唇齿音(labiodental)、齿间音(dental)等； 2.发音方法(manners of articulation)：、爆破音(stop)、摩擦音(fricatives)、破擦音(affricates)、鼻音(nasal)、边音(lateral)等； 3.声带状态：清辅音、浊辅音。 因此更正第七期第十道 10. English consonants can be classified into stops, fricatives, nasals, etc, in terms of _ A manner of articulation B openness of mouth C place of articulation D voicing 选择A而不是C 1. St. Lawrence and River Columbia are shared by both _ A America and Mexico B America and Canada C America and Cuba D America and Brazil 2. European settlement of Australia began in the late part of _ when a British penal colony was established on the east coast of the continent. A the 16th century B the 17th century C the 18th century D the 19th century 3. Which sport is supposed to be Americas national sport and used to be call “Americans favorable pastime”? A baseball B basketball C rugby D cricket 4. The largest city in New Zealand is _ A Auckland B Wellington C Christchurch D Dunedin 5. After Adam Bede,_wrote The Mill on the Floss and Silas Marner in which moral problems are discussed and psychological analysis of characters are emphasized. A George Eliot B Jane Austin C George Dickens D Charlotte Bronte 6.All of the following odes are written by John Keats EXCEPT_ A Ode to Autumn B Ode to a Nightingale C Ode to a Skylark D Ode on Melancholy 7. Of_s four famous comedies, the best known is Lady Windermeres Fan. A Oscar Wilde B Richard Sheridan C Bernard Shaw D Somerset Maugham 8. If the air stream meets with no obstruction when a sound is pronounced, it is a(n) _ A voiced consonant B voiceless consonant C vowel D explosive 9. The internationally accepted system of phonetic transcription is _ A I.P.A B I.A.P.S C I.S.