TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (10)
-GRADE EIGHT-
Part Ⅲ GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (10MIN)
There are ten multiple-choice question in this section. Choose the best answer to
each question. Mark your answers on your colored answered sheet.
31 The most popular news paper in Ireland is
A The Irish Times B The Irish Press
C The Irish Independent D The Irish Daily
32.Christmas tree in New Zealand is the red
A kowhai B totara C pohutukawa D kauri
33. After the gold rush , the city of ____. Became the financial and economic centre in
Australia
A Canberra B Sydney C Melbourne D Perth
34.The University of Dublin was not founded until
A the 19th century B the 18th century
C the 17th century D the 16th century
35 ____.IS THE American poet whose work was first recognized in England and then in
America.
A Robert Frost B Wallace Stevens C Walt Whiteman D Emily Dickinson
36 Among the following, ____.is the one who was not most influenced by Chinese poetry
and philosophy.
A Emily Dickinson B Ezra Pound C Robert Frost D Ralph Waldo Emerson
37 As a school of modern painting, ____.stresses on the formal structure of a work of art
and especially on multiple-perspective viewpoints.
A imagism B expressionism C impressionism D cubism
38 The research of how children acquire their native language and adults acquire their
second /foreign language is called
A psycholinguistics B sociolinguistics C semantics D applied linguistics
39 A structurally independent unit that consists of a number of words to form a complete
statement, a question or command is called
A a clause B a phrase C a sentence D all of the above
40 According to Krashen, ____.refers to the gradual and subconscious development of L1
ability by using it naturally in daily communicative context.
A acquisition B learning C competence D performance