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1、Test For English Majors Grade Eight Part General Knowledge There are ten multiple-choice questions in this section. Choose the best answer to each question. Mark your answers on your answer sheet. 31. The capital of Wales is _. A. Edinburgh B. Cardiff C. Belfast D. Auckland 32. The victory of _ was
2、the turning point of the War of Independence. A. Saratoga B. Gettysburg C. Trenton D. Yorktown 33. Which of the following is one of the worlds greatest continental rivers? A. The Ohio River B. The Missouri River C. The Hudson River D. The Mississippi River 34. _ was famous for his abdication because
3、 of his marriage with a divorced American. A. Edward B. Edward C. George D. George 35. Which of the following was NOT a novel written by Mark Twain? A. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer B. Great Expectations C. Life on the Mississippi D. The Prince and the Pauper 36. John Keats was a poet of _. A. the 17
4、th century B. the 18th century C. the 19th century D. the 20th century 37. _ has no regular rhythm or line length. A. Ode B. Epigram C. Sonnet D. Free Verse 38. The study of the production of speech sounds is of great interest to those working in _. A. articulatory phonetics B. acoustic phonetics C.
5、 auditory phonetics D. phonology 39. Which of the following is NOT a branch of Macrolinguistics? A. Sociolinguistics B. Psycholinguistics C. Historical Linguistics D. Computational Linguistics 40. The words rain and reign are examples of _. A. synonyms B. polysemies C. hyponymies D. homonymiesPart P
6、roofreading & Error Correction 15 min. The following passage contains TEN errors. Each indicated line contains a maximum of ONE error. In each case, only ONE word is involved. You should proofread the passage and correct it in the following way:For a wrong word, underline the wrong word and write th
7、e correct one in the blank provided at the end of the line.For a missing word, mark the position of the missing word with a sign and write the word you believe to be missing in the blank provided at the end of the line.For an unnecessary word, cross out the unnecessary word with a slash and put the
8、word in the blank provided at the end of the line. Where do pesticides fit into the picture of environmental disease? Wehave seen that they now pollute soil, water and food, that they have thepower to make our stream fishless and our gardens and woodlands silent 41 _and birdless. Man, however much h
9、e may like to pretend the contrary, ispart of nature. Can he escape a pollution is now so thoroughly 42 _distributed throughout our world?We know that even single exposures to these chemicals, if the amount is large enough, can lead extremely severe poisoning. But this is not the major 43 _ problem.
10、 The sudden illness or death of farmers, farm workers, and othersexposed to sufficient quantities of pesticides are very sad and should not occur. 44 _ For the population as whole, we must be more concerned with the delayed 45 _ effects of absorbing small amounts of the pesticides that visibly pollu
11、te 46 _ our world.Responsible public health officials have pointed out that the biological affects of chemicals are cumulative over long periods of time, 47 _ but the danger to individual may depend on the sum of the exposures 48 _ received throughout his lifetime. For these very reasons the danger
12、is easily ignored. It is human nature to shake off that may seem to us a 49 _ threat of future disaster. Men are naturally most impressed by diseases which have obvious signs, says a wise physician, Dr. Rene Dubos, yet some of their worst enemies slowly approach to them unnoticed. 50 _Part General K
13、nowledge31B 英国地理。询问威尔士的首府。考点归纳英国的四个部分： England：首府London，也是英国的首都； Scotland：首府Edinburgh； Wales：首府Cardiff； Northern Ireland：首府Belfast。32A 美国历史。询问美国独立战争的转折点是什么。考点归纳与美国独立战争(The War of Independence)相关的重要历史事件包括： Sep.5，1774：召开the First Continental Congress，开始拒绝购买英国货物 April 19，1775：the battles of Lexington and Concord标志着战争的开
