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General Knowledge

Unit 1

1. The English Civil Wars broke out in the ___________.

A. 1630s

B. 1640s

C. 1650s

D. 1660s

2. The World Bank is located in ___________ of the United States.

A. Washington

B. New York City

C. Houston

D. Chicago

3. ___________ is the capital city of Ontario, which is also the multicultural, entertainment, financial, and

business capital of Canada.

A. Ottawa

B. Toronto

C. Quebec

D. Montreal

4. It is in February ___________ that came the historic visit of Nixon to China. During the visit

Sino-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. 1971

B. 1972

C. 1979

D. 1981

5. English Romanticism is generally considered to have begun in 1798 with the publication of a joint

volume of poetry, Lyrical Ballads, written by ___________ and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

A. John Keats

B. George Byron

C. William Wordsworth

D. William Blake

6. ___________ is a representative novelist of the Jazz Age.

A. Dos Passos

B. F. Scott Fitzgerald

C. Ernest Hemingway

D. Gertrude Stein

7. ___________ is a poem concerned with the spiritual breakup of a modem civilization in which human

life has lost its meaning, significance and purpose.

A. The Waste Land

B. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

C. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

D. Prometheus Unbound

8. The description of a language at some point in history is called a ___________ study.

A. prescriptive

B. synchronic

C. descriptive

D. diachronic

9. Which of the following is an inflectional affix?

A. un-

B. over-

C. -tion

D. -ing

10. The theory of cooperative principle is proposed by___________.

A. Austin

B. Searle

C. Grice

D. Sapir

Unit 2

1. Beginning in 1929, the Great Depression which caused a major worldwide depression first began in

___________.

A. The United States

B. Britain

C. Germany

D. France

2. Common Sense is a pamphlet written by___________.

A. Thomas More

B. Francis Bacon

C. John Locke

D. Thomas Paine

3. The capital of Australia is ___________.

A. Melbourne

B. Canberra

C. Sydney

D. New South Wales

4. The Domesday Book is a survey of England’s productive capacity similar to a modern census

commissioned under ___________’s rule.

A. Alfred the Great

B. Elizabeth I

C. Henry II

D. William I

5. ___________ is NOT an English playwright.

A. William Shakespeare

B. Ben Johnson

C. Samuel Beckett

D. William Golding

6. ___________ is the author of The Scarlet Letter, a novel concerned with the life of Puritans in early

America.

A. Edgar Allan Poe

B. James Fenimore Cooper

C. Nathaniel Hawthorne

D. Frederick Douglass

7. ___________ imitated the characteristics of ancient Roman writers, including Horace, Virgil, Cicero, etc.

A. Neo-classicism

B. Modernism

C. Naturalism

D. Realism

8. The fact that different languages have different words for the same object is a good illustration of the

___________ feature of language.

A. duality

B. displacement

C. arbitrariness

D. productivity

9. 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. Sapir

B. Saussure

C. Chomsky

D. Halliday

Unit 3

1. 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. anthem

B. flag

C. emblem

D. both B and C

3. 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. Ontario

B. Quebec

C. Nova Scotia

D. Newfoundland

5. ___________ compiled the first English dictionary, A Dictionary of the English Language.

A. Samuel Johnson

B. Walter Scott

C. James Boswell

D. Noah Webster

6. 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 Sinclair

B. Theodore Dreiser

C. Sinclair Lewis

D. Frank Norris

7. ___________ 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. Monologue

B. Allusion

C. Stream-of-consciousness

D. Psychological penetration

8. The study of how sounds are put together and used to convey meaning in communication is

___________.

A. phonetics

B. phonology

C. morphology

D. semantics

9. The sense relationship between animal and horse is___________.

A. hyponymy

B. homonymy

C. polysemy

D. synonymy

10. Which of the following is NOT a compound word?

A. landlady

B. greenhouse

C. uplift

D. unacceptable

Unit 4

1. In the United States, the Thanksgiving Day is the ___________ Thursday of November.

A. first

B. second

C. third

D. fourth

2. In Britain, ___________ became the cultural centre for the youths and was the birthplace of the Beetles.

A. London

B. Glasgow

C. Manchester

D. Liverpool

3. 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. Belfast

B. Birmingham

C. Sussex

D. Cardiff

5. ___________ 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 Joyce

B. Virginia Woolf

C. Henry James

D. John Fowles

6. 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 Howells

B. Theodore Dreiser

C. Washington Irving

D. Mark Twain

7. “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood/ And sorry I could not travel both/ And be one traveler, long I

stood/ 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 Frost

B. Wallace Stevens

C. T. S. Eliot

D. Carl Sandburg

8. ___________ is the study of language in relation to society.

A. Historical linguistics

B. Psycholinguistics

C. Semantics

D. Sociolinguistics

9. The design features of human language include the following EXCEPT___________

A. duality

B. productivity

C. performance

D. arbitrariness

10. The Input Hypothesis was put forward by___________.

A. Saussure

B. Krashen

C. Noam Chomsky

D.M.A.K. Halliday

Unit 5

1. 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 the

following EXCEPT___________.

A. the Queen

B. the President

C. the Senate

D. the House of Representative

3. The head of state of New Zealand is___________.

A. the President

B. Governor-General

C. Queen Elizabeth II

D. the Prime Minister

4. ___________ is known as the automobile capital of the world.

A. Detroit

B. Colorado

C. Denver

D. Chicago

5. ___________ is NOT a 19th century English novelist.

A. Jane Austen

B. George Eliot

C. Charles Dickens

D. D. H. Lawrence

6. ___________ is the author of Walden, or Life in the Woods, a major work of American

Transcendentalism.

A. Ralph Waldo Emerson

B. Henry David Thoreau

C. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

D. Harriet Beecher Stowe

7. Richard Wright, ___________ and James Baldwin are the three leading characters of the Harlem

Renaissance.

A. James Langston Hughes

B. Paul Laurence Dunbar

C. Frederick Douglass

D. Alice Walker

8. The father of modern linguistics is___________.

A. Saussure

B. John Austin

C. Noam Chomsky

D. Halliday

9. Which of the following words contains an inflectional morpheme?

A. weary

B. talking

C. careful

D. manifestation

10. The three metafunctions of language proposed by Halliday include the following EXCEPT__________.

A. ideational

B. interpersonal

C. recreational

D. textual

Unit 6

1. Canada is the world’s ___________ largest country after Russia.

A. first

B. second

C. third

D. fourth

2. Of all the universities in the United States, ___________ is the oldest one.

A. Princeton

B. Harvard

C. Yale

D. Stanford

3. In Britain, Parliament consists of the House of Lords, the House of Commons, and___________.

A. the Labour Party

B. the Prime Minister

C. the Lord Chancellor

D. the Monarch

4. In ___________ the national anthem of Australia was changed from God Save the Queen to revised

patriotic song called Advance Australia Fair.

A. 1946

B. 1965

C. 1972

D. 1984

5. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the first novel of___________.

A. Henry James

B. James Joyce

C. George Orwell

D. Norman Mailer

6. ___________ is a novel by Saul Bellow, the Nobel Prize winner in 1976.

A. The Family Moskat

B. On the Road

C. Herzog

D. The Thin Red Line

7. ___________ is a poem by the Lake Poets.

A. Don Juan

B. Ode on a Grecian Urn

C. Prometheus Unbound

D. The Excursion

8. 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. blending

B. acronym

C. derivation

D. compounding

10. 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 7

1. Australia was first colonized on January ___________, 1788, which is now known as Australia Day.

A. 16th

B. 20th

C. 26th

D. 30th

2. 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 country

on the mainland.

A. Alaska

B. Missouri

C. Texas

D. Ohio

4. In Britain, a session of Parliament usually lasts for ___________ years unless the Prime Minister

dissolves the Parliament.

A. four

B. five

C. six

D. seven

5. Mrs. Warren’s Profession is a play by___________.

A. Oscar Wilde

B. George Bernard Shaw

C. Samuel Beckett

D. John Osborne

6. The Sound and the Fury is the masterpiece of ___________, a leading novelist of the Southern

Literature.

A. William Cuthbert Faulkner

B. Endora Welty

C. Margaret Mitchell

D. Hannery O’Connor

7. ___________ is NOT a Nobel Laureate in Literature.

A. Eugene O’Neill

B. Ernest Hemingway

C. Mark Twain

D. William Golding

8. The distinction between competence and performance is made by___________.

A. Halliday

B. Chomsky

C. Bloomfield

D. Saussure

9. Language variation according to use in specific situations is studied in terms of ___________.

A. register

B. jargon

C. style

D. dialect

10. The word holiday originally meant holy day; but now the word signifies any day on which we don’t

have to work. This is an example of ___________.

A. meaning shift

B. widening of meaning

C. narrowing of meaning

D. loss of meaning

Unit 8

1. The national day of the United States of America falls on___________.

A. July4th

B. June4th

C. July 14th

D. June 14th

2. 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 Blair

B. Gordon Brown

C. Clement Attlee

D. James MacDonald

3. 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 26th

B. February 6th

C. March 7th

D. April 5th

5. ___________ is NOT a comedy.

A. A Midsummer Night’s Dream

B. The Merchant of Venice

C. Romeo and Juliet

D. As You Like It

6. ___________ is NOT a black novelist.

A. James Baldwin

B. Toni Morrison

C. John Steinbeck

D. Richard Wright

7. Eugene O’Neill’s The Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Tennessee Williams’___________ and Arthur

Miller’s Death of a Salesman are the three greatest American plays.

A. The Glass Menagerie

B. The Streetcar Named Desire

C. The Hairy Ape

D. All My Sons

8. The design features of human language include the following EXCEPT___________.

A. duality

B. displacement

C. parole

D. arbitrariness

9. The affix in the word speaking is a(n) ___________.

A. derivational suffix

B. inflectional suffix

C. root

D. free morpheme

10. The style of “See ya, buddy!” is ___________.

A. formal

B. consultative

C. frozen

D. intimate

Unit 9

1. Of all the states of America, ___________ is the smallest of the country while Alaska is the largest one.

A. Maine

B. Utah

C. Rhode Island

D. Kansas

2. 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 Jackson

B. Abraham Lincoln

C. Thomas Jefferson

D. Woodrow Wilson

4. 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. metaphysical

B. modernist

C. sentimentalist

D. romanticist

6. Martin Eden is the semi-autobiographical novel by ___________

A. Upton Sinclair

B. Stephen Crane

C. Frank Norris

D. Jack London

7. ___________ is a 20th century poet.

A. John Donne

B. Alfred Tennyson

C. Emily Dickinson

D. Robert Frost

8. 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 many

great 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 antonymy

B. gradable antonymy

C. converse antonymy

D. none of the above

Unit 10

1. Among all the states in Australia, ___________ is the oldest state.

A. Victoria

B. Queensland

C. New South Wales

D. Tasmania

2. In the United States, the presiding officer of the House of Representative, the Speaker, is ___________.

A. elected by the members of the House of Representative

B. appointed by the President

C. appointed by the Vice President

D. elected by the members of the Congress

3. Between 1945 and 1951, the ___________ government established an extensive health and welfare

system and the “Welfare State” had begun.

A. Labour

B. Liberal

C. Republican

D. Conservative

4. Kiwi is the national ___________ of New Zealand.

A. plant

B. flower

C. bird

D. tree

5. Alexander Pope is a representative figure of neo-classicism, famous for his literary criticism,

___________ and his poetry.

A. criticism on Shakespeare

B. translation of Iliad and Odyssey

C. literary innovations

D. political influences

6. ___________ is the author of Catch-22, a masterpiece of black humor and irony.

A. John Barth

B. Kurt V onnegut

C. Joseph Heller

D. James Jones

7. The Victorian Age witnessed the flourish of English literature, mostly seen in___________.

A. plays

B. novels

C. poetry

D. prose

8. The word flu which comes from influenza is created through ___________.

A. blending

B. acronym

C. derivation

D. abbreviation

9. Which of the following is NOT related to Noam Chomsky?

A. deep structure

B. language acquisition device

C. transformational grammar

D. textual metafunction

10. When a pidgin language is adopted by a community as its primary language and learned by children as

a mother tongue, it is called ___________.

A. creole

B. dialect

C. lingua franca

D. slang

Unit 11

1. 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 capitalistic

landowners and some merchants.

2. In America, the three most influential newspapers are the following EXCEPT ___________.

A. New York Times

B. Times

C. Washington Post

D. Los Angeles Times

3. 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 Spanish

B. English and Russian

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