【正文】 Test 11. In Britain, where does the Changing of the Guard take place?a) Buckingham Palace.b) Downing Street.c) Victoria and Albert Museum.d) The Tower of London.2. What is a doubledecker? a) A bus. b) A chocolate bar.c) A taxi. d) A twostorey building.3. Of all the symbols, ________, which are considered to represent fertility and new life, are those most frequently associated with Easter.a) the pumpkin and the turkeyb) the lamb and the beefc) the spring peas and the potatoesd) the egg and the rabbit4. The first landing by Europeans in Australia was in 1606, but what is their nationality?a) Dutch. b) French.c) Spanish. d) British.5. Middle English was used by the poet _______.a) Hardy b) Chaucerc) Shakespeare d) Milton6. “A Tale of Two Cities” was written by ______.a) William Shakespeare b) Goeffrey Chaucerc) Charles Dickens d) Thomas Jefferson7. Emily Dickinson wrote many short poems on various aspects of life. Which of the following is NOT a usual subject of her poetic expression?a) Religion and immortality. b) Life and Death.c) Love and marriage. d) War and peace.8. What three ponents, generally, make up a system of a typical language?a) Phonology, syntax, semantics.b) Semiosis, syntax, frames.c) Frames, semantics, utterances.d) Sign, sign, signs.9. Of the following wordformation processes, _______ is the most productive.a) clipping b) blendingc) initialism d) derivation10. “The pen is mightier than the sword.” is an example of ______.a) metonymy b) transferred epithetc) oxymoron d) metaphorTest 21. What is the affectionate name given to the clock tower of the Houses of Parliament, Westminster?a) Big Ben. b) Big Ken.c) Big Bill. d) Big Bob.2. Which of these sports did not originate in UK?a) Cricket. b) Snooker.c) Football (Soccer). d) Golf.3. Which town has been nicknamed ‘Tinseltown’ by the Americans?a) New Orleans. b) Reno.c) Hollywood. d) Las Vegas.4. What is the other official language in Canada besides English and what is Canada’s capital?a) French. Ottawa. b) Spanish, Ottawa.c) Spanish, Toronto. d) French, Toronto.5. Which English poet wrote of Adam and Eve’s expulsion from the Garden of Eden in Paradise Lost?a) John Donne. b) John Milton.c) Sir Philip Sidney. d) Edmund Spenser.6. _______ died of tuberculosis at the age of 26, but not before leaving an impressive body of poems, including “To Autumn” and “Ode on Melancholy”.a) John Keats b) Lord Byronc) Samuel Taylor Coleridge d) Percy Bysshe Shelley7. Walt Whitman was a pioneering figure of American poetry. His innovation first of all lies in his use of ______, poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.a) Blank verse b) Heroic coupletc) Free verse d) Iambic pentameter8. Of the following words, ______ is an initialism.a) VOA b) NATOc) BASIC d) UNESCO9. Which of the following words is NOT formed through clipping?a) Dorm. b) Motel.c) Gent. d) Zoo.10. A regional variety of a language that has variations in pronunciation, vocabulary or meaning is called _______.a) accent b) slangc) dialect d) narrativeTest 31. The Channel Tunnel, linking the UK to the rest of Europe, runs between England and ______.a) France b) Germanyc) Belgium d) Netherlands2. What’s the name of the day set apart in USA for planting trees?a) Earth Day. b) Ann Arbor Day.c) Arbor Day. d) Green Day.3. What was the name of the ship that brought the Pilgrims to New England in 1620?a) Golden Hinde. b) Sunflower.c) Mayflower. d) Titanic.4. What are the official colours of Australia?a) Red, White and Blue. b) Green and Gold.c) Green and Brown. d) Green and Red.5. _______ is the first important governess novel in the English literary history.a) Jane Eyre b) Emmac) Wuthering Heights d) Middlemarch6. _______ was a preRomantic writer and is best known for his Scottish songs.a) Sir Walter Scott b) Robert Burnsc) Samuel Taylor Coleridge d) William Blake7. Mark Twain did NOT write _______.a) The Prince and the Pauper b) The Old Curiosity Shopc) Pudd’nhead Wilsond) Tom Sawyer8. Which of the following is NOT a dialect of English?a) Slang. b) Buffalo.c) American. d) Southern.9. Some words in the basic word stock are said to be stable because they ______.a) are plex wordsb) are technical wordsc) refer to the monest things in lifed) denote the most important concepts10. What is defined as “the study of sentence structure”?a) Syntax. b) Phonology.c) Morphology. d) Semantics.Test 41. What colour is the British classified business telephone directory?