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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 fricatives 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 both 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 part of when a British penal colony was established on the east coast of the continent A the 16th century B the 17th century C the 18th century D the 19th century 3 Which sport is supposed to be America s national sport 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 discussed and psychological analysis of characters are emphasized A George Eliot B Jane Austin C George Dickens D Charlotte 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 sound is pronounced it is a n A voiced consonant B voiceless consonant C vowel D explosive 9 The internationally accepted system of phonetic transcription 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 vocabulary of the language spoken in Britain A invasion of the Romans B Christianization of Britain 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 转贴于 TEM考试 考试大 责编 虫 纠错 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 Britain 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 Ireland 3 One of the most famous national parks in the U S is 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 Urbervilles B Pride and Prejudice C Happy Prince D The Mill on the Floss 6 Lyrical Ballads is the joint work between Wordsworth 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 Anger D The Sun Also Rises 8 The distinction of langue and parole is made by A Hall B Sapir C Chomsky D Saussure 9 examines how meaning is encoded in a language A Semantics B Syntax C Pragmatics D Morphology 10 The sentence I apologize belongs to the category of according to the speech act theory A expressive B performative C representative D constative 答案 BBACB AADAB constative为叙述句performative为施为句 美国人口构成 1 The population of the United States is a bit more than 272 million about 13 of which are Black 12 are Hispanic 讲西班牙语的人 4 are Asian and the rest are White Americans 2 It is the third most populous country in the world after China and India 3 The most populous states are California Texas New York Florida and Illinois 4 More than 80 of Americans live in urban areas 巩固 按照人口数量排列 美国在世界排在第几位 按照面积排 美国又是排第几位呢 1 Christmas is usually connected to A the reunion of a large family B the eating of Easter eggs C the resurrection of Christ D the forgiving of other s sins 2 The largest of the ethnic minorities in America is A the blacks B the Mexico Americans C the Spanish Americans D the Chinese 3 The British establish colonies along the east coast of North American between 16 7 and 1733 A 11 B 12 C13 D14 4 The largest university in Canada is A Laval University B The University of Toronto C McGill University D Simon Fraser University 5 Robinson Crusoe is written by A Henry Fielding B Daniel Defoe C Samuel Richardson D Jonathan Swift 6 is written by Walt Whitman A Representative Men B English Traits C Nature D Leaves of Grass 7 is not a novelist A Henry James B Emily Dickinson C William Dean Howells D Mark Twain 8 is not one of the core branches of linguistics A Phonology B Psycho linguistics C Syntax D Semantics 9 is the common factor of the three sounds p t k A voiceless B spread C voiced D nasal 10 English consonants can be classified into stops fricatives nasals etc in terms of A manner of articulation B openness of mouth C place of articulation D voicing 按面积计算 美国继俄罗斯 加拿大 中国之后位居第四 按人口计算 美国继中国 印度后 居第三 答案 ACCBB DBBAA 转贴于 练习题 1 The national epic of the Anglo Saxons is A Robin Hood B Sir Gawain and the Green Knight C The Canterbury Tales D Beowulf 2 was the most outstanding single romance on the Arthurian legend written in alliterative verse A The Canterbury Tales B Piers the Plowman C Sir Gawain and the Green Knight D Beowulf 3 was the most famous for The Canterbury Tales A Geoffrey Chaucer B John Milton C William Shakespeare D Francis Bacon 4 Most of the ballads of the 5th century focused on the legend about as a heroic figure A Green Nights B Gawain C Robin Hood D Hamlet 5 In the 16th century Thomas More s work became immediately popular after its publication A Paradise Lost B A Pleasant Satire of the Three Estates C Of Beauty D Utopia 6 was Edmund Spencer s masterpiece which has been regarded as one of the great poems in the English language A Amoretti B The Shepherd s Calendar C The Faerie Queen D Four Hymns 7 is from Shakespeare s sonnet No 18 A Let me not to the marriage of true minds B To be or not to be that is the question C Shall I compare thee to a summer s day D No longer mourn for me when I am dead 8 The vivid portrayal of by Shakespeare in Henry IV has earn for him an enviable place in the history of English literature A Julius Caesar B Falstaff C Hamlet D King Henry 9 The four great tragedies written by Shakespeare are Hamlet Macbeth Othello and A Antony and Cleopatra B Julius Caesar C Twelfth Night D King Lear 10 Which of the following does not belong to Shakespeare s romantic love comedies A Twelfth Night B The Tempest C As You Like It D The Merchant of Venice 练习题答案及题解 1 D 贝奥武夫 是英国一部著名的英国史诗 也是英国文学中的一部重要作品 用古英语写成 2 C 高文爵士和绿衣 以亚瑟王和他的骑士为题材 歌颂勇敢 忠贞 美德 是中古英语传奇文学最优秀的作品之一 3 Chaucer被誉为 英国诗歌之父 他的代表作是 坎特伯雷故事集 它是以本土文学为主流的英国书面文学历史开始的重要标志 4 C 英国15十几民谣大部分是关于流传于英国民间家喻户晓的传奇人物罗宾汉和他的伙伴们的故事 民谣中的罗宾汉是一个仗义疏财 劫富济贫的绿林好汉 5 D 托马斯 莫尔是英国重要的早期人文主义者 他的著作 乌托邦 勾画出了一个社会平等 财产共有 人民和谐相处的理想大同国 6 C 长诗 仙后 是英国杰出诗人Edmund Spencer的杰作 它是英国诗歌创作的典范 Spencer在 仙后 一诗中创造了著名的 斯宾塞诗体 其影响深远 7 C Shall I compare thee to a summer s day 源自莎士比亚著名的第十八首诗 8 B 喜剧人物福斯坦福是莎士比亚在 亨利四世 中创造的一个为百姓喜闻乐见的不朽的艺术形象 福斯坦福是个50多岁的破落骑士 爱冒险又胆怯 喜欢吹牛又贪婪 说谎欺诈 浑水摸鱼 无所不能 同时他生性幽默 喜剧情节和笑料通过他的所言所行妙趣横生 9 D 莎士比亚的四大悲剧一般指 Hamlet Macbeth Othello 以及King Lear 10 B The Tempest 是莎士比亚后期一部浪漫主义传奇剧 莎士比亚在创作中坚持人文主义理想 以宽恕仁爱为主要精神 期创作风格添加了不少浓郁的浪漫空幻色彩 转练习题 1 Gold Rush was vividly depicted in novels A Hemingway s B Mark Twain s C Henry Jame s D Faulkner s 2 The period of Old English literatue refers to A 449 1066 B 14thcentury mid 17th century C 14th century mid 18th century D 16th century mid 18th century 3 The great transcendental work by Henry David Thoreau is A Nature B Walden C Experience D Essays 4 has been entitled the Father of American Poetry A Philip Freneau B Ralph Waldo Emerson C William Cullen Bryant D Walt Whitman 5 The emotional effect and social significance made the first well known sociological novel in American Literature A The Sun Also Rises B Uncle Tom s Cabin C The Old Man and The Sea D Sister Carrie 6 Stephen Crane is famous for A An American Tragedy B The Ambassadors C Main Street D The Red Badge of Courage 7 Which of the following is NOT true for Benjamin Franklin A He was a famous writer B He was a member to draft the Declaration of Independence C He was a great scientist D He was once elected American President 8 Whitman s poems are characterized by all the following features EXCEPT A a strict poetic form B a simple and conversational language C a free and natural rhythmic pattern D an easy flow of feelings 9 American fiction in the 1960s is retered to as A imagism B black humor C new fiction D the Beat Generation 10 William Faukener is the author of A Far From the Madding Crowd B Sound and Fury C For Whom the Bell Tolls D Scarlet Letter 练习题答案及题解 1 B 马克吐温的很多短篇小说对Gold Rush 淘金 进行了很形象的描绘 2 A Anglo Saxons所说的语言被称为古英语 Anglo Saxons是在五世纪中侵入英国领土的 直到1066年诺曼公爵政府英格兰 建立诺曼底王朝 才代替了Anglo Saxons 3 B 瓦尔登湖是梭罗最杰出的超验主义作品 4 A Philip Freneau 1752 1832 被称为 美国诗歌之父 著有 The wild Honey Suckle To The Memory of Brave Americans 5 B 汤姆叔叔家的小屋是美国文学史上第一部揭示黑人被虐待 宣扬反奴隶制度的小说 激发了社会各界人士的感情 是一部社会性质很强的小说 6 D The Red Badge of Courage 红色英勇勋章 是Stephen Grane的代表作 7 D Benjamin Franklin 是伟大的作家 科学家 还是美国独立宣言的撰写人之一 但是未曾担任过美国总统 8 A Whitman主张自由诗体 认为诗歌不应该收到格律约束 他的代表作 草叶集 标志着真正意义上美国诗歌的诞生 9 B 黑色幽默是二十世纪六十年代盛行的小说类型 用幽默的手法来揭示可悲的现实 10 B Far From the Madding Crowd为 托马斯哈代的作品 For Whom the Bell Tolls为海明威的作品 Scarlet Letter为霍桑的作品 练习题 1 As a philosophical and literary moment flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War A modernism B rationalism C sentimentalism D transcendentalism 2 Poe s first collection of stories is A Tales of Traveler B Leather Stocking Tales C Canterbury Tales D Tales of the Goteque and Arabesque 3 Which book is not written by Emerson A The American Scholar B Self Reliance C Nature D Civil Disobedience 4 The finest example of Hawthorn s symbolism is the recreation of Puritan Boston in A The Scarlet Letter B Young Goodman Brown C The Marble Fawn D The Ambitious Guest 5 The chief spokesman of New England Transcendentalism is A Nathaniel Hawthorn B Ralph Waldo Emerson C Henry David Thoreau D Washington Irving 6 Transcendentalists recognized as the highest power of the soul A intuition B logic C data of senses D thinking 7 Which is regarded as the Declaration of Intellectual Independence A The American Scholar B English Traits C The Conduct of Life D Representative Men 8 American literature produced only one female poet during the nineteenth century This was A Anne Bradstreet B Jane Austin C Emily Dickinson D Harriet Beecher 9 Captain My Captain is written for A Lincoln B Whitman C Washington D Hemingway 10 is not written by Washington Irving A The Sketch Book B Rip Van Winkle C The Legend of Sleep Hollow D The Autobiography 练习题答案及题解 1 D 从19世纪30年代到内战期间的主要文学流派是超验主义 以爱默生为代表 2 D 坡的第一部故事集是 怪诞奇异故事集 3 D 论市民之不服从 是梭罗的作品 其他全为爱默生的作品 4 A 霍桑作品中的象征主义手法主要体现在他的著作 红字 中 5 B 超验主义以爱默生为代表 6 A 超验主义认为人类精神的最高力量存在于人的直觉中 7 A 被称为 美国精神独立宣言 的是爱默生的 美国学者 书中表达了美国人追求自己的文化独立以及文学独立身份的要求 8 C 19世纪美国的杰出女诗人是艾米莉 迪金森 1830 1886 9 A 阿 船长啊 我的船长 是惠特曼为纪念林肯总统而作的 10 D 见闻札记 睡谷的传说 瑞普 凡 温克尔 都是华盛顿 欧文的作品 但是 自传 是本杰明 富兰克林的作品 转贴于 TEM考试 考试大 责编 虫 纠错 练习题 1 How many members are there in the House of Commons A 650 B 524 C 72 D 651 2 Which of the following people didn t use to be the British Prime Minister A Margaret Thatcher B Winston Churchill C Horatio Nelson D John Major 3 By tradition the leader of the majority party is appointed by the Sovereign in the United Kingdom A Prime Minister B Member of Parliament C Lord of appeal D Speaker of the House 4 The Tories were the forerunners of which still bears this nickname today A the Labour Party B the Conservative Party C the Liberal Party D the Social Democratic Party 5 In the United Kingdom the party which wins the number of seats in the House of Commons becomes the official Opposition A largest B second largest C third largest D fourth largest 6 The term British disease is now often used to characterize Britain s decline A political B educational C military D economic 7 The 1980s was remembered as the decade of A globalization B nationalization C privatization D competition 8 Today in Britain is called a sick industry A coal mining B iron and steel C textiles D shipbuilding 9 The first steam engine was devised by Thomas Newcomer at the end of the 17th century and the Scottish inventor modified and improved the design in 1765 A Abraham Darby B James Watt C John Kay D Richard Arkwrightthe 10 created the industrial working class the proletariat and it later led to trade unionism A The Chartist Movement B The Industrial Revolution C The French Revolution D The Glorious Revolution 练习题答案及题解 1 D 下议院共有651名议员 2 C 撒切尔夫人 丘吉尔和梅杰都曾经做过英国首相 而纳尔逊 1758 1805 英国海军统帅 因作战负伤 右眼失明 失去右臂 后任地中海舰队司令 在特法尔加角海战中大败西班牙联合舰队 本人受重伤阵亡 号称 Viscount Nelson 3 A 在英国 按照传统 多数党的领导人由君主任命为首相 首相从本党内部挑选一些领导人担任各部部长职位 4 B 托利党是英国保守党的前身 5 B 在英国 在下议院中赢得第二席位的政党为反对党 它也有它自己的领导和影子内阁 shadow cabinet 6 D 现在 英国病 这一术语经常用来指英国经济上的衰退 7 C 正如20世纪40年代被看作是国有化的时代一样 20世纪80年代被看作是私有化的时代 包括英国石油 航空 钢铁 电讯在内的几乎40 的国有公司实现了私有化 8 A 英国煤矿业被称为生病工业 英国的煤产量在一战前达到顶点 如今的英国的煤矿业衰退 从而导致矿工的数量 煤矿的总产量大大下降 9 B 第一台蒸汽机是 Thomas Newcomer 在17世纪末设计的 后来苏格兰发明家瓦特在1765年对原有的设计进行了改进提高 生产出了第一台高效的蒸汽机并应用到纺织和其他机械业中 10 B 工业革命产生了工人阶级 即无产阶级 后来形成了工会制度 练习题 1 Which poem is not written by Freneau A The British Prison Ship B The Wild Honey Suckle C The Indian Burying Ground D The Flood of Years 2 Thomas Jefferson s attitude that is a firm belief in progress and the pursuit of happiness is typical of the period we now call A Age of Evolution B Age of Reason C Age of Romanticism D Age of Regionalism 3 Which of the following is NOT one part of the Leather Stocking Tales by Cooper A The Spy B The Pathfinder C The Pioneers D The Deerslayer 4 Which statement about Thoreau is NOT right A He was a lover of nature B He was particular kind of romantic C He was polemicist D He was a thorough transcendentalist 5 Which of the following has been called the manifesto of American Transcendentalism A Divinity School Address B Self reliance C Nature D The American Scholar 6 As a philosophical and literary movement flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War A sentimentalism B transcendentalism C modernism D rationalism 7 The period before the American Civil War is generally referred to as A the Modern Period B the Realistic Period C the Romantic Period D the Naturalist Period 8 All the following are the works by Nathaniel Hawthorne EXCEPT A The Marble Faun B Typee C The Scarlet Letter D Mosses from an Old Manse 9 Which of the following is not a work of Emily Dickson s A I Heard a Fly Buzz when I Died B The Raven C This is My Letter to the World D I Like to See it Lap the Miles 10 Whitman s poems are characterized by all the following features EXCEPT A the strict poetic form B the free and natural rhythm C the easy flow of feelings D the simple and conversational language 练习题答案及题解 1 D 似水流年 是布莱恩特的作品 其他全为弗伦诺的作品 2 B 理性时代 3 A The Spy 不属于 皮靴子 系列 4 C 梭罗崇尚自然生活简单 与世无争 不入尘嚣 5 C 超验主义的宣言是Nature 一书的发表 6 B 19世纪30年代到内战期间是超验主义 以爱默生等为代表 7 C 内战前是浪漫主义 8 B Typee 是Herman Melville 的作品 其他全为霍桑的 9 B The Raven 大乌鸦 是艾伦 坡的作品 其他全为艾米莉的 10 A 惠特曼的诗自由 清新 琅琅上口 易于理解 但并不是按照严格的格律来写 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 fricatives 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 both 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 part of when a British penal colony was established on the east coast of the continent A the 16th century B the 17th century C the 18th century D the 19th century 3 Which sport is supposed to be America s national sport 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 discussed and psychological analysis of characters are emphasized A George Eliot B Jane Austin C George Dickens D Charlotte 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 sound is pronounced it is a n A voiced consonant B voiceless consonant C vowel D explosive 9 The internationally accepted system of phonetic transcription 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 vocabulary of the language spoken in Britain A invasion of the Romans B Christianization of Britain 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 转贴于 TEM考试 考试大 责编 虫 纠错 英国内战 1642 1646 1 On August 22 1642 the First Civil War began The king s men were called Cavaliers and the supporters of Parliament were called Roundheads 1642 8 22 第一次内战爆发 支持国王者被成为 骑士派 支持议会者被成为 圆颅派 2 Charles was tried by a High Court of Justice found guilty of have levied war against his kingdom and the Parliament condemned to death and executed on a scaffold outside the Banqueting House at Whitehall on January 30 1649 查尔斯在一级高级法院受审 犯有对王国和议会发动战争之罪 被判死刑 并于1649 1 30在宴会宫窗外的绞刑架上绞死 1 is the core of the English Government A the Sovereign B the House of Lords C the House of Commons D the Cabinet2 Melbourne is located A in Canada B in New Zealand C in Ireland D in Australia3 forced Nixon to resign in 1973 A The Watergate Scandal B The Iran Gate ScandalC The Un American Activities Committee D The New Right4 The young people in the post WWI era are referred to as A the Boom Generation B the Lost GenerationC the Yuppies D the Cowboys5 was greatly influenced by Chinese and Japanese poetry A E