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General KnowledgeUnit 11. The English Civil Wars broke out in the ___________.A. 1630sB. 1640sC. 1650sD. 1660s2. The World Bank is located in ___________ of the United States.A. WashingtonB. New York CityC. HoustonD. Chicago3. ___________ is the capital city of Ontario, which is also the multicultural, entertainment, financial, andbusiness capital of Canada.A. OttawaB. TorontoC. QuebecD. Montreal4. It is in February ___________ that came the historic visit of Nixon to China. During the visitSino-America Joint Communique was signed, which agreed on the fact that there was only one legal government in China, that of the People’s Republic of China.,A. 1971B. 1972C. 1979D. 19815. English Romanticism is generally considered to have begun in 1798 with the publication of a jointvolume of poetry, Lyrical Ballads, written by ___________ and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.A. John KeatsB. George ByronC. William WordsworthD. William Blake6. ___________ is a representative novelist of the Jazz Age.A. Dos PassosB. F. Scott FitzgeraldC. Ernest HemingwayD. Gertrude Stein7. ___________ is a poem concerned with the spiritual breakup of a modem civilization in which humanlife has lost its meaning, significance and purpose.A. The Waste LandB. Elegy Written in a Country ChurchyardC. The Rime of the Ancient MarinerD. Prometheus Unbound8. The description of a language at some point in history is called a ___________ study.A. prescriptiveB. synchronicC. descriptiveD. diachronic9. Which of the following is an inflectional affix?A. un-B. over-C. -tionD. -ing10. The theory of cooperative principle is proposed by___________.A. AustinB. SearleC. GriceD. SapirUnit 21. Beginning in 1929, the Great Depression which caused a major worldwide depression first began in___________.A. The United StatesB. BritainC. GermanyD. France2. Common Sense is a pamphlet written by___________.A. Thomas MoreB. Francis BaconC. John LockeD. Thomas Paine3. The capital of Australia is ___________.A. MelbourneB. CanberraC. SydneyD. New South Wales4. The Domesday Book is a survey of England’s productive capacity similar to a modern censuscommissioned under ___________’s rule.A. Alfred the GreatB. Elizabeth IC. Henry IID. William I5. ___________ is NOT an English playwright.A. William ShakespeareB. Ben JohnsonC. Samuel BeckettD. William Golding6. ___________ is the author of The Scarlet Letter, a novel concerned with the life of Puritans in earlyAmerica.A. Edgar Allan PoeB. James Fenimore CooperC. Nathaniel HawthorneD. Frederick Douglass7. ___________ imitated the characteristics of ancient Roman writers, including Horace, Virgil, Cicero, etc.A. Neo-classicismB. ModernismC. NaturalismD. Realism8. The fact that different languages have different words for the same object is a good illustration of the___________ feature of language.A. dualityB. displacementC. arbitrarinessD. productivity9. What type of sentence is “Jim has failed in the exam though he has been working hard.”?A. A simple sentence.B. A coordinate sentence.C. A complex sentence.D. None of the above.10. Language acquisition device (LAD) was proposed by___________.A. SapirB. SaussureC. ChomskyD. HallidayUnit 31. Which are the two major parties in Britain now?A. The Conservative and the Labour.B. The Liberal and the Labour.C. The Democratic and the Conservative.D. The Democratic and the Liberal.2. “The Star-Spangled Banner” is the national ___________ of the United States.A. anthemB. flagC. emblemD. both B and C3. Which of the following cities is the capital of New Zealand?A. Christchurch.B. Dunedin.C. Auckland.D. Wellington.4. In the Seven Years War between England and France, French were driven out of the North American Continent and the French colony in Canada was reorganized as the British province: ___________ in 1763.A. OntarioB. QuebecC. Nova ScotiaD. Newfoundland5. ___________ compiled the first English dictionary, A Dictionary of the English Language.A. Samuel JohnsonB. Walter ScottC. James BoswellD. Noah Webster6. The Jungle is a novel by ___________ which exposed the corruption of the American meat-packing industry during the early 20th century, and was considered as a representative muckraking novel.A. Upton SinclairB. Theodore DreiserC. Sinclair LewisD. Frank Norris7. ___________ is a narrative technique that presents thoughts as if they were coming directly from a character’s mind without any consideration of orders of events.A. MonologueB. AllusionC. Stream-of-consciousnessD. Psychological penetration8. The study of how sounds are put together and used to convey meaning in communication is___________.A. phoneticsB. phonologyC. morphologyD. semantics9. The sense relationship between animal and horse is___________.A. hyponymyB. homonymyC. polysemyD. synonymy10. Which of the following is NOT a compound word?A. landladyB. greenhouseC. upliftD. unacceptableUnit 41. In the United States, the Thanksgiving Day is the ___________ Thursday of November.A. firstB. secondC. thirdD. fourth2. In Britain, ___________ became the cultural centre for the youths and was the birthplace of the Beetles.A. LondonB. GlasgowC. ManchesterD. Liverpool3. Among the political parties in Ireland, which is NOT among the three biggest ones?A. The Democratic Socialist.B. The Labor Party.C. Fianna Fail.D. Fine Gael.4. ___________ is the capital of Wales.A. BelfastB. BirminghamC. SussexD. Cardiff5. ___________ is the author of To the Lighthouse, a landmark novel of modernism which skillfully applies the technique of stream-of-consciousness in the narration.A. James JoyceB. Virginia WoolfC. Henry JamesD. John Fowles6. In 1935, Ernest Hemingway wrote: “All modern American literature comes from one book by___________ called ‘Huckleberry Finn.’There was nothing before. And there has been nothing as good since.”A. William Dean HowellsB. Theodore DreiserC. Washington IrvingD. Mark Twain7. “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood/ And sorry I could not travel both/ And be one traveler, long Istood/ And looked down one as far as I could/ To where it bent in the undergrowth.” These lines are the first stanza of a poem by___________.A. Robert FrostB. Wallace StevensC. T. S. EliotD. Carl Sandburg8. ___________ is the study of language in relation to society.A. Historical linguisticsB. PsycholinguisticsC. SemanticsD. Sociolinguistics9. The design features of human language include the following EXCEPT___________A. dualityB. productivityC. performanceD. arbitrariness10. The Input Hypothesis was put forward by___________.A. SaussureB. KrashenC. Noam ChomskyD.M.A.K. HallidayUnit 51. Which of the following kings (or queens) was NOT a sovereign of the Tudor dynasty?A. Henry VII.B. James I.C. Edward VI.D. Elizabeth I.2. In Australia, legislative power is vested in the Commonwealth Parliament, which consists of thefollowing EXCEPT___________.A. the QueenB. the PresidentC. the SenateD. the House of Representative3. The head of state of New Zealand is___________.A. the PresidentB. Governor-GeneralC. Queen Elizabeth IID. the Prime Minister4. ___________ is known as the automobile capital of the world.A. DetroitB. ColoradoC. DenverD. Chicago5. ___________ is NOT a 19th century English novelist.A. Jane AustenB. George EliotC. Charles DickensD. D. H. Lawrence6. ___________ is the author of Walden, or Life in the Woods, a major work of AmericanTranscendentalism.A. Ralph Waldo EmersonB. Henry David ThoreauC. Henry Wadsworth LongfellowD. Harriet Beecher Stowe7. Richard Wright, ___________ and James Baldwin are the three leading characters of the HarlemRenaissance.A. James Langston HughesB. Paul Laurence DunbarC. Frederick DouglassD. Alice Walker8. The father of modern linguistics is___________.A. SaussureB. John AustinC. Noam ChomskyD. Halliday9. Which of the following words contains an inflectional morpheme?A. wearyB. talkingC. carefulD. manifestation10. The three metafunctions of language proposed by Halliday include the following EXCEPT__________.A. ideationalB. interpersonalC. recreationalD. textualUnit 61. Canada is the world’s ___________ largest country after Russia.A. firstB. secondC. thirdD. fourth2. Of all the universities in the United States, ___________ is the oldest one.A. PrincetonB. HarvardC. YaleD. Stanford3. In Britain, Parliament consists of the House of Lords, the House of Commons, and___________.A. the Labour PartyB. the Prime MinisterC. the Lord ChancellorD. the Monarch4. In ___________ the national anthem of Australia was changed from God Save the Queen to revisedpatriotic song called Advance Australia Fair.A. 1946B. 1965C. 1972D. 19845. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the first novel of___________.A. Henry JamesB. James JoyceC. George OrwellD. Norman Mailer6. ___________ is a novel by Saul Bellow, the Nobel Prize winner in 1976.A. The Family MoskatB. On the RoadC. HerzogD. The Thin Red Line7. ___________ is a poem by the Lake Poets.A. Don JuanB. Ode on a Grecian UrnC. Prometheus UnboundD. The Excursion8. Which of the following is NOT a fricative in English?A. [z]B. [d]C. [f]D. [v]9. The word smog which comes from smoke and fog is a(n) ___________A. blendingB. acronymC. derivationD. compounding10. According to Austin, which of the following utterances can be regarded as a performative?A. The sea is beautiful.B. I bet you sixpence it will rain tomorrow.C. Jim is running along the road.D. He will go to London.Unit 71. Australia was first colonized on January ___________, 1788, which is now known as Australia Day.A. 16thB. 20thC. 26thD. 30th2. What is the British Prime Minister’s residence?A. No. 10 Downing Street.B. No. 5 Downing Street.C. No. 8 Downing Street.D. No. 20 Downing Street.3. Of all the states of America, Rhode Island is the smallest while ___________ is the largest of the countryon the mainland.A. AlaskaB. MissouriC. TexasD. Ohio4. In Britain, a session of Parliament usually lasts for ___________ years unless the Prime Ministerdissolves the Parliament.A. fourB. fiveC. sixD. seven5. Mrs. Warren’s Profession is a play by___________.A. Oscar WildeB. George Bernard ShawC. Samuel BeckettD. John Osborne6. The Sound and the Fury is the masterpiece of ___________, a leading novelist of the SouthernLiterature.A. William Cuthbert FaulknerB. Endora WeltyC. Margaret MitchellD. Hannery O’Connor7. ___________ is NOT a Nobel Laureate in Literature.A. Eugene O’NeillB. Ernest HemingwayC. Mark TwainD. William Golding8. The distinction between competence and performance is made by___________.A. HallidayB. ChomskyC. BloomfieldD. Saussure9. Language variation according to use in specific situations is studied in terms of ___________.A. registerB. jargonC. styleD. dialect10. The word holiday originally meant holy day; but now the word signifies any day on which we don’thave to work. This is an example of ___________.A. meaning shiftB. widening of meaningC. narrowing of meaningD. loss of meaningUnit 81. The national day of the United States of America falls on___________.A. July4thB. June4thC. July 14thD. June 14th2. In Britain, ___________ is the first Labour Party leader who won the third consecutive general election, though he resigned in the mid of the third term.A. Tony BlairB. Gordon BrownC. Clement AttleeD. James MacDonald3. In Australia, who becomes leader of the official opposition?A. The leader of the majority party which won the second largest number of seats.B. The leader of the other two joint majority parties which didn’t win a majority of seats.C. The leader of the largest minority party.D. The leader of the joint-minority-party.4. The national day of New Zealand is ___________, to honor the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840.A. January 26thB. February 6thC. March 7thD. April 5th5. ___________ is NOT a comedy.A. A Midsummer Night’s DreamB. The Merchant of VeniceC. Romeo and JulietD. As You Like It6. ___________ is NOT a black novelist.A. James BaldwinB. Toni MorrisonC. John SteinbeckD. Richard Wright7. Eugene O’Neill’s The Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Tennessee Williams’___________ and ArthurMiller’s Death of a Salesman are the three greatest American plays.A. The Glass MenagerieB. The Streetcar Named DesireC. The Hairy ApeD. All My Sons8. The design features of human language include the following EXCEPT___________.A. dualityB. displacementC. paroleD. arbitrariness9. The affix in the word speaking is a(n) ___________.A. derivational suffixB. inflectional suffixC. rootD. free morpheme10. The style of “See ya, buddy!” is ___________.A. formalB. consultativeC. frozenD. intimateUnit 91. Of all the states of America, ___________ is the smallest of the country while Alaska is the largest one.A. MaineB. UtahC. Rhode IslandD. Kansas2. Which of the following is NOT an exponent of English Renaissance?A. Ben Johnson.B. Christopher Marlowe.C. William Shakespeare.D. William Caxton.3. Gettysburg Address is a speech by ___________, the President who led the North to win the Civil War.A. Andrew JacksonB. Abraham LincolnC. Thomas JeffersonD. Woodrow Wilson4. In which year did Canada become a country?A. 1780.B. 1838.C. 1867.D. 1871.5. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard is a representative ___________ poem written by Thomas Gray.A. metaphysicalB. modernistC. sentimentalistD. romanticist6. Martin Eden is the semi-autobiographical novel by ___________A. Upton SinclairB. Stephen CraneC. Frank NorrisD. Jack London7. ___________ is a 20th century poet.A. John DonneB. Alfred TennysonC. Emily DickinsonD. Robert Frost8. Which of the following is NOT a plosive in English?A. [b]B. [t]C. [k]D. [v]9. What type of sentence is “The question of whether war is inevitable is one which has concerned manygreat writers.”?A. A simple sentence.B. A coordinate sentence.C. A complex sentence.D. None of the above.10. The sense relationship between lend and borrow is___________.A. complementary antonymyB. gradable antonymyC. converse antonymyD. none of the aboveUnit 101. Among all the states in Australia, ___________ is the oldest state.A. VictoriaB. QueenslandC. New South WalesD. Tasmania2. In the United States, the presiding officer of the House of Representative, the Speaker, is ___________.A. elected by the members of the House of RepresentativeB. appointed by the PresidentC. appointed by the Vice PresidentD. elected by the members of the Congress3. Between 1945 and 1951, the ___________ government established an extensive health and welfaresystem and the “Welfare State” had begun.A. LabourB. LiberalC. RepublicanD. Conservative4. Kiwi is the national ___________ of New Zealand.A. plantB. flowerC. birdD. tree5. Alexander Pope is a representative figure of neo-classicism, famous for his literary criticism,___________ and his poetry.A. criticism on ShakespeareB. translation of Iliad and OdysseyC. literary innovationsD. political influences6. ___________ is the author of Catch-22, a masterpiece of black humor and irony.A. John BarthB. Kurt V onnegutC. Joseph HellerD. James Jones7. The Victorian Age witnessed the flourish of English literature, mostly seen in___________.A. playsB. novelsC. poetryD. prose8. The word flu which comes from influenza is created through ___________.A. blendingB. acronymC. derivationD. abbreviation9. Which of the following is NOT related to Noam Chomsky?A. deep structureB. language acquisition deviceC. transformational grammarD. textual metafunction10. When a pidgin language is adopted by a community as its primary language and learned by children asa mother tongue, it is called ___________.A. creoleB. dialectC. lingua francaD. slangUnit 111. Britain was the first country to industrialize because of the following factors EXCEPT___________.A. Britain was well placed geographically to participate in European and world trade.B. Britain had large supplies of coal and oil, which was favorable for its industrial development.C. British engineers had sound training and the inventors were respected.D. Britain had a stable political environment with a parliament composed largely of capitalisticlandowners and some merchants.2. In America, the three most influential newspapers are the following EXCEPT ___________.A. New York TimesB. TimesC. Washington PostD. Los Angeles Times3. Which of the following country is NOT located in the Northern Hemisphere?A. Australia.B. Britain.C. Ireland.D. Canada.4. The two official languages in Canada are ___________.A. English and SpanishB. English and RussianC. English and FrenchD. English and German5. English Renaissance Period was an age of ___________.A. dramaB. poetryC. proseD. novels6. ___________ is the essence of the English Renaissance.A. ChivalryB. HumanismC. HeroismD. Pessimism7. ___________ is NOT an American-Jewish novelist.A. James Langston HughesB. Saul BellowC. Isaac Bashevis SingerD. Bernard Malamud8. Which of the following is NOT a fricative in English?A. [z]B. [k]C. [flD. [hl9. The word bird once referred to “young bird”, but now it is used to mean “any kind of bird”. This is anexample of ___________.A. widening of meaningB. narrowing of meaningC. meaning shillD. loss of meaning10. Which of the following is NOT a derivation?A. lengthenB. foolishC. runawayD. earthwardUnit 121. ___________ lie(s) between the boundary of Canada and the U. S. and serve (s) as the boundary betweenthe two countries.A. The Mississippi RiverB. The Great LakesC. The Rocky MountainsD. The Grand Canyon2. In Britain, ___________ has the ultimate authority of legislation.A. the MonarchB. the CabinetC. the House of LordsD. the House of Commons3. The mother river in Canada is ___________.A. St. LawrenceB. River ColumbiaC. River ShannonD. the Murray4. ___________ is the smallest state in Australia and is also called “the Apple Isle and the Holiday Isle” forits beautiful scenery.A. QueenslandB. VictoriaC. New South WalesD. Tasmania5. King Lear is one of Shakespeare’s___________.A. comediesB. tragediesC. historiesD. dramatic romances6. Song of Myself is the first poem of ___________ collection of poems, Leaves of Grass.A. Henry Wadsworth LongfellowB. Walt WhitmanC. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD. John Keats7. ___________ is a 19th century American novelist.A. Emily DickinsonB. Henry David ThoreauC. Edgar Allan PoeD. Ernest Hemingway8. Which of the following is an abbreviation?A. smogB. WTOC. bikeD. edit9. The study of relations between linguistic features and the social class of speakers is called ___________.A. pragmaticsB. psycholinguisticsC. sociolinguisticsD. semantics10. The sense relationship between animal and insect is ___________.A. hyponymyB. homonymyC. polysemyD. synonymyUnit 131. In the Untied States, ___________ shares both the nickname “cradle of Liberty”and “The Athens ofAmerica”.A. PhiladelphiaB. New YorkC. BostonD. Washington D. C.2. The largest city in Scotland is ___________.A. GlasgowB. ManchesterC. EdinburghD. Cardiff3. ___________ is the second largest city in Canada and is also the second largest French-speaking city inthe world behind Paris.A. QuebecB. MontrealC. TorontoD. Ottawa4. The Wars of Roses was fought between the House of Lancaster and the House of York, with Henry Tudor,or ___________, who founded the Tudor Dynasty.A. Richard IIIB. Edward IVC. Henry VIIID. Henry VII5. The rise of English novels was in the 18th century with ___________.A. Henry Fielding’s Tom JonesB. Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s TravelsC. Daniel Defoe’s Robinson CrusoeD. Samuel Richardson’s Pamela6. ___________ is NOT a poem by Victorian poets.A. In MemoriamB. Stanzas from the Grande ChartreuseC. The Ring and the BookD. Songs of Innocence7. Moby Dick is the masterpiece of ___________.A. Nathaniel HawthorneB. Edgar Allan PoeC. Frederick DouglassD. Herman Melville8. The phenomenon that different languages have different names for a rose illustrates the language designfeature of ___________.A. dualityB. displacementC. performanceD. arbitrariness9. What type of sentence is “Mr Hoffmann insists that he was involved in this heated argument.”?A. A simple sentence.B. A coordinate sentence.C. A complex sentence.D. None of the above.10. The phenomenon that words sharing the same meaning is called ___________.A. hyponymyB. synonymyC. polysemyD. homonymyUnit 141. Which of the following was NOT one of the policies of Margaret Thatcher?A. The use of monetarist policies to control inflation.B. The return to state-owned industries.C. The strengthening of the role of market forces in the economy.D. The weakening of trade unions.2. In 1774, the First Continental Congress met in___________A. PhiladelphiaB. New YorkC. BostonD. Washington D. C.3. The term “British disease” is now often used to characterize Britain’s ___________ decline.A. politicalB. culturalC. economicD. military4. New Zealand achieved full internal and external autonomy by the Statute of Westminster Adoption Act in___________.A. 1945B. 1947C. 1951D. 19565. These lines, “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind”, are quoted from ___________.A. Keats’Ode to AutumnB. Wordsworth’s The ExcursionC. Byron’s Don JuanD. Shelley’s Ode to the West Wind6. The Rising Glory of America is written by ___________, the Revolutionary Poet of America.A. Philip Morin FreneauB. Anne BradstreetC. Henry Wadsworth LongfellowD. Edgar Allan Poe7. Southern Literature refers to a group of American writers in south America with a striking regionalistcharacteristic including writers EXCEPT ___________.A. William FaulknerB. Eudora WeltyC. Margaret MitchellD. Bernard Malamud8. Which of the following words contains an inflectional morpheme?A. earthwardB. heatedC. carelessD. discard9. The description of the English developments through time is called a ___________ study.A. prescriptiveB. synchronicC. descriptiveD. diachronic10. Which of the following is NOT a minimal pair?A. beat/bitB. pin/binC. kin/kingD. cut/putUnit 151. In the United States, the head of the executive branch is ___________.A. the CongressB. the Supreme CourtC. the Prime MinisterD. the President2. The highest mountain in Britain is ___________.A. the Pennine ChainB. AlpsC. Ben NevisD. Rocky Mountains3. The British North America Act of 1867 established ___________ as a domain.A. AustraliaB. CanadaC. New ZealandD. Ireland4. The longest river in Ireland is ___________ River.A. MississippiB. SevernC. NileD. Shannon5. ___________ is NOT a novel by the Bronte sisters.A. Jane EyreB. Pride and PrejudiceC. Wuthering HeightsD. Agnes Grey6. ___________ is a 20th century American poet.A. Wallace StevensB. William Butler YeatsC. Alfred TennysonD. Walt Whitman7. ___________ is NOT one of Mark Twain’s novels.A. The Innocents AbroadB. The Gilded AgeC. The Sketch BookD. The Prince and the Pauper8. What type of sentence is “The division of labour and all human activities based on the division of labourare dependent on language.”?A. A simple sentence.B. A coordinate sentence.C. A complex sentence.D. None of the above.9. In the late 1950s, the Transformational-Generative grammar proposed by ___________ began to bring a.. revolution in linguistics.A. SaussureB. BloomfieldC. HallidayD. Chomsky10. 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