英语文化常识

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, fri catives, 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 bot

h ____

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 p art of ____ when a British penal colony was establishe

d on th

e east coast o

f the continent.

A the 16th century

B the 17th century

C the 18th centu ry

D the 19th century

3. Which sport is supposed to be America’ｓ

national sp ort and used to be call “American’ｓ

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 discuss ed and psychological analysis of characters are empha sized.

A George Eliot

B Jane Austin

C George Dickens

D Ch arlotte 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 Windermere’ｓ

Fan.

A Oscar Wilde

B Richard Sheridan

C Bernard Shaw

D Somerset Maugham

8. If the air stream meets with no obstruction when a s ound is pronounced, it is a(n) ____

A voiced consonant

B voiceless consonant

C vowel

D explosive 9. The internationally accepted system of phonetic tra nscription 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 vo cabulary of the language spoken in Britain.

A invasion of the Romans

B Christianization of Britai

n

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

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. It was during ____ reign that the name Great Britai

n came into being.

A Mary’ｓ

B Anne’ｓ

C Jame II’ｓ

D Oliver Cromwell

2.Where is Edinburgh?

A In Wales

B In Scotland

C In Northern Ireland

D In I reland

3. One of the most famous national parks in the U.S. i s the ____

A Yellowstone National Park

B Hyde Park

C Kakadu National Park

D American Fishing Center

4. New Zealand is just west of the International Date Line, so it is the first country to get ____

A frozen

B wet

C the new day

D united

5. Mr.Darcy is a character in ____

A Tess of the D’Urbervi l les

B Pride and Prejudice

C H appy Prince

D The Mill on the Floss

6. Lyrical Ballads is the joint work between Wordswor

th and his friend____

A Coleridge

B Bryon

C Keats

D Shelly

7.____is the representative work of the Jazz Age

A The Great Gatsby

B On the Road

C Look Back in A nger

D The Sun Also Rises

8. The distinction of langue and parole is made by ___ _