英美文化练习题

1、1.B is the capital of Canada .a)Vancouver b)ottawa c)Montreal d)York2 . u . s . presidents normally serve a(n)bterm。a)two-yearb)four-yearc)six-yeard)eight-year3.which of the following cities is not located in the northeast，U.S .aa)huston . b)Boston . c)balt imore . d)philadel phia。4.D is the state c

2、hurch in England。a)the Roman Catholic church b)the baptist churchc)the Protestant church d)the church of England5.The novel Emma is written byB。a)Mary Shelley . b)Charlotte Bronte . c)Elizabeth c . Gaskell . d)Jane Austen .6.which of the following is not a romantic poet？ba)William words worth . b)Ge

3、orge Elliot。c)George c . Byron . d)Percy s . Shelley .7.William Sidney porter，known as O. Henry，is most famous forc。a)hispoems . b)hisplays . c)his short stories . d)his novels。8.Syntax is the study of？a)language functions . b)sentence structures。c)textual organization . d)word formation .9.which of

4、 ale following is not a distinctive feature of human language？da)arbit rariness . b)productivity . c)cultural transmission . d)finite ness。10.the speech act theory was first put forward by？a)John sear le . b)John Austin . c)Noam Chomsky . d)m . a，K. Halliday .11.the presidents during the American ci

5、vil war was bA.Andrew Jackson B. Abraham LincolnC.Thomas Jefferson d . George Washington12.the capital of new Zealand is CA.Christ church b . Auckland c . wellingtond。Hamilton13.who were the natives of Australia before the arrival of the British settlers？aA.the aborigines b . the Maori c . the India

6、ns d . the eski mos14.the prime minister in Britain is head of dA.the shadow cabinet b . the parliamentC.the Opposition D. the Cabinet15.which of the following writers is a poet of the 20 th century？-嗯？a . t . s . Eliot b . d . h . Lawrence c . Theodore Dreiser d . James Joyce16.the novel for whom t

7、he bell tolls is written by dA.Scott Fitzgerald b . William FaulknerC.Eugene o neil D. Ernest Hemingway17._ _ b _ _ is defined as an expression of human emotion which is condensed into fourteen linesA.freeverse b . sonnet c . ode d . epig ram18.what essentially distinguishes semantics and pragmatics

8、 is the notion of？A.reference b . meaning c . antonymy d . context19.The words kid，child，offspring are examples of BA.dialectal synonyms b . stylistic synonymsC.emotive synonyms d . collocation al synonyms20.the distinction between parole and langue was made by dA.halliay b . Chomsky c . bloom field

9、 d . Saussure21.the majority of the current population in the uk are decedent s of all the following tribes respectively except _ _ c _ _ _A.the Anglos B. the CeltsC.the Jutes D. the Saxons22.the head of state of Canada is represented by dA.the Monarch B. the PresidentC.the prime minister d . the go

10、vernor-general23.the declaration of in dependence was written by _ _ _ a _ _ _ _ _ _ _。A.Thomas Jefferson b . George WashingtonC.Alexander hamiltond。James Madison24.the original inhabitants of Australia were _ _ _ _ _ _ c _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _。A.the Red Indians B. the EskimosC.the Aborigines D. the Maoris

11、25.which of the following novels was written by Emily Bronte？dA.Oliver Twist B. MiddlemarchC.Jane Eyre D. Wuthering Heights26.William butler Yeats was a(n)_ _ c _ _ _ poet and playwright .A.American b . Canadian c . Irish d . Australian27.death of a sales man was written by _ _ _ _？_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

12、 _ _ _。A.Arthur miller B. Ernest HemingwayC.Ralph Ellison D. James Baldwin28._ _ b _ _ _ _ _ _ _ refers to the study of the internal structure of words and the rules of word formation .A.phonology b . morphology c . semantics d . socio linguistics29.the distinctive features of a speech variety may b

13、e all the following except _ _ _ _？-嗯？_ _ _ _ _ _ _。A.lexical b . syntactic c . phonological d . psycho linguistic30.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 _ _ _ _ _。A.widening of meaning b . narrowing of meaningC.me

14、aning shift D. loss of meaning31.the largest city in Canada is _ _ _ _ _ _ c _ _ _ _ _ _。A.Vancouver . b . Montreal . c . Toronto d . ottawa .32.according to the United States constitution，the legislative power is invested in dA.the federal government . b . the supreme court .C.the Cabinet。D. the Co

15、ngress .33.which of the following is the oldest sport in the United States？-嗯？A.baseball . b . tennis . c . basketball . d . American football。34.the head of the executive branch in new Zealand is _ _ _ b _ _ _ _ _。A.the president . b . the governor-general .C.the British monarch d . the prime minis

16、ter .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 bA.William langland . b . Geoffrey Chaucer .C.William shakes peare . d . Alfred Tennyson .36.Who wrote The American？-嗯？A.Herman Melville . b . Nathaniel hawthorn

17、 e .C.Henry James。D. Theodore Dreiser .37.all of the following are well-known female writers in 20th-century Britain except _ _ _ _ _ _？_ _。A.George eliot.b. iris jean murdoch。C.Doris Lessing。D. Muriel Spark .38.which of the following is not a design feature of human language？dA.Arbitrariness。B. Displacement .C.Duality。D. Diachronicity .39 the home o