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__1__Where is Edinburgh?
　　A In Wales B In Scotland C In Northern Ireland D In Ireland
　　__2__ Which of the following is Not a U.S. news and cable network?
　　A ABC B CNN C CBS D BBC
　　__3__The Capital of Australia is __.
　　A Sydney B Melbourne C Canberra D Perth
　　__4__ Which degree is offered in community colleges in the United States?
　　A Master’s degree B Doctor’s degree C Bachelor’s degree D Associate’s degree
　　__5__ George Bernard Shaw was a(n) __.
　　A playwright B poet C novelist D essayist
　　__6__ John Galsworthy was most famous for__.
　　A Heart of Darkness B Ulysses C The Forsyste Saga D A Passage to India
　　__7__ The novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was written by__.
　　A Henry James B O. Henry C Harriet Beccher Stower D Mark Twain
　　__8__The study of how sounds are put together and used to convey meaning in condition is__.
　　A morphology B general linguistics C phonology D semantics
　　__9__Which of the following is NOT a compound word?
　　A Landlady B Greenhouse C Uplift D Unacceptable
　　__10__ The word holiday originally meant holy day; but now the word signifies any 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

　　答案：1-5 BDCDA 6-10 CDCDB

　　1. 选B. Wales的首府威Cardiff, Scotland的首府为Edinburgh. Northern Ireland的首府Belfast, Ireland的首府为Dublin.
　　2. 选 D。 BBC=British Broadcasting Corporation英国广播公司, ABC=American Broadcasting Company, Inc美国广播公司; CNN= Cable News Network美国有线广播公司, CBS= Columbia Broadcasting System哥伦比亚广播公司
　　3. 选C。Sydney第一城市, 位于New South Wales州；Melbourne第二大城市位于Victoria州，Canberra位于Sydney与Melbourne之间；Perth位于Australia州
　　4. 选D。 Associate’s degree是准学士学位（喵猜这个相当我们说的大专吧）
　　5. 选A。George Bernard Shaw (英国，萧伯纳)，爱尔兰籍，剧作家，批评家，社会评论家，主要作品有Man and Superman, Back to Methuselah, Saint Joan <圣女贞德>，Arms and the Man, Pygmalion <茶花女>，获得1925年诺贝尔文学奖。(喵，小云的上期文学七里香就是介绍了他噢)
　　6. 选C。John Galsworthy（英国）,小说家，剧作家。主要作品有The Forsyte Saga<福塞特家史>，于1932年获得了诺贝尔文学奖；Heart of Darkness,作者Joseph Conrad，波兰籍英国小说家，另有Lord Jim <吉姆老爷>；Ulysses, 作者James Joyce, 爱尔兰作家Finnergans Wake《为芬尼根守灵》； A Passage to India，作者E.M. Forster,英国小说家，另有Howards End霍华德别业。
　　7. 选D。Mark Twain= Samuel Langhorne Clemens,作品有The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; Henry James, 主要作品有Ambassadors, The Golden Bowl; O.Henry= William Sydney Porter, 主要作品有Cabbages and Kings, Four Million; Harriet Beecher Stower, 其反奴隶制小说Uncle Tom’s Cabin，促进了废奴运动发展。
　　8. 选C。Linguistics语言学, the study of human language,包括 Theoretical linguistic, Applied linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Cognitive linguistics和Historical linguistics.这里主要考Theoretical linguistics.
　　9. 选D。是derivation.
　　10. 选B。从any day就可以知道 widening of meaning.