1、In Britain, ___ has the ultimate authority of legislation.
A the Queen
B the House of Commons
C the House of Lords
D the Prime Minister
2、The three largest cities in Canada do NOT include.
A Toronto
B Quebec
C Ottawa
D Vancouver
3、Aboriginal culture in Australia is said to be more than ___ years old.
A 20,000
B 30,000
C 40,000
D 50,000
4、 It is known that Irish landscape in featured by ___.
A bogs
B mountains
C grassland
D rivers
5、The following plays are comedies by Shakespeare EXCEPT ___.
A A Midsummer Night’s Dream
B As You Like It
C The Merchant of Venice
D Romeo and Juliet
6、 “The novel is structured around the discovery of the hero’s origin.” Probably this refers to the novel ___.
A Wuthering Heights
B The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
C David Copperfield
D Gulliver’s Travels
7、___ was considered to be the greatest dramatist in the 18th century.
A Henry Fielding
B Laurence Sterne
C Oliver Goldsmith
D Richard B. Sheridan
8、The branch of linguistics that studies how context influences the way speakers interpret sentences is called ___.
A pragmatics
B semantics
C sociolinguistics
D psycholinguistics
9、Which of the following words can connect two clauses in a coordinate sentence?
A Through
B When
C But
D If
10、Which of the following is NOT considered part of semantic change?
A Semantic broadening
B Compounding
C Semantic narrowing
D Semantic shift

參考答案：(反白可見)
1. 選B.在英國，下院擁有最高立法權(quán).本題術(shù)語發(fā)展現(xiàn)狀類問題.
2. 選C.加拿大三大城市不包括渥太華.本題術(shù)語發(fā)展現(xiàn)狀類問題.
3. 選C.據(jù)說澳大利亞的土著文化擁有四千多年的歷史.本題屬于文化傳統(tǒng)類問題.
4. 選A.眾所周知，愛爾蘭地貌特點是沼澤地.本題屬于地理類問題.
5. 選D.除了《羅密歐與朱麗葉》之外，其他下列戲劇皆為莎士比亞的喜劇作品.本題屬于英國文學(xué)類問題.
6. 選B.“小說結(jié)構(gòu)是圍繞主人公的身世發(fā)現(xiàn)來安排的”這句話可能是指小說《棄兒湯姆.瓊斯的來歷》.本題屬于英國文學(xué)類問題.
7. 選D.理查德.B.謝立丹被認為是18世紀最偉大的劇作家.本題屬于英國文學(xué)類問題.
8. 選A.這道題檢查考生是否知曉語用學(xué)的含義.
9. 選C.這套題檢查考生對別列舉的了解.
10.選B.這道題檢查考生對語義變化內(nèi)容的了解.?