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2. The capital of Australia is

Canberra

5. Any one who followed

my set of rules

would be blessed with a richer life and boundless love from his family.

6. There are two main political parties in the USA

the Democrats and the Republicans

7. Germany has won the World Cup

three times

8. _____

White Hall

__ is often used to stand for the British Government.

9. Componential analysis is a method of analyzing___

B. lexical

_____ meaning.

10. The sense relationship between

complementarity

____.

ing to the morphological analysis, the underlined part in the word

as a ___

B. stem

________ .

______

collocative

_ meaning of a word consists of the associations it acquires on account of the meanings

of words which tend to occur in its environment.

The formation of new words by combining parts of two words or a word plus a part of another is called

blending

15. The word meaning given in the dictionary is called __

denotative

___ meaning.

16. Predication analysis is a way to analyze ____

sentence

___ meaning.

17. How many morphemes are there in the word discharged

3

the Chinese for “six of one and half a dozen of the other?”

半斤八两

20. The year 2002 was _____

Queen Elizabeth 1I

____ Golden Jubilee.

23. What does

C. It sounds familiar.

25. I haven't got e-mail at home. I'll have to write to you by __

snail

_______ mail.

28.

Shanghai

Maglev

Line

－

the

world'

s

first

passenger

Transrapid

Maglev

high

speed

railway

--

uses

magnets to propel it at speeds of up to ____

430

_____ kph.

29. Bill is the short name for ____

William

_____.

“talk big”?

A.

吹牛

35. ---Is the largest city and chief port of the United States

New York

36 The “Father of waters’ is used to refer to

-

Mississipi river

37. The Statue of Liberty was given to American people as a gift in 1884 by -----

France

-

national flag of the United States is known as-----

The star-spangled banner

39 .Of the fifty states, the smallest state is ---

Rhode Island

---

42.

I’ll

have

to

start

earlier

the

next

time.

This

time

I

only

finished

by

the

skin

of

my

teeth.

.barely

succeeded in finishing it

45. Which one in the following expressions is not true?

A. as meek as a lamb

B. as foolish as a donkey

C. as wise as a owl

D. As strong as a cow

46. I do think her presentation is wonderful. I simply can’t

＿

put my finger on

the flaw in her argument.

48. Which one in the following expressions is not true?

A. The gang of Four

B. A flock of coots

C. A school of birds

D. A pack of wolves

49. Which idiom or saying below shows people’s positive attitude towards dogs?

A jolly dog

.

50. No wonder he is so sad these days. His grandfather pushed up the daisies a week ago.

passed

away

51. Rock- and-roll in the early 1960s in the United States was for()

B. black audience

54.

多 大的数字被称为天文数字

亿以上

55.

在英语当中，哪两个字母的出现频率最高

(e,t)

58

，

The history of English is usually divided into _

three

__ major periods.

Washington D.C. is named after

both George Washington and Christopher Columbus

62. “Ode to the west wind”

was written by the author of ___.

“As Defense of Poetry”

64. Francis bacon is a ___

essayist

_.

65. We can perhaps describe the west wind in shelly’s poem “ode to the west wind” with all the following

terms except_____.

tamed

B swift

C proud

D wild

a romantic poet, William Wordsworth advocated the following EXCEPT ___.

A the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings

B the use of colloquialism spoken by the masses

C elegant wordings and inflated figures of speech

D the humble and rustic life as subject matter

67 The morpheme “scope” in the common word “telescope”

is a(n) __

free morpheme

_.

68.

现在美国国旗星条旗上有多少颗星

:50

69. On New Year's Eve, there will be a firework ____

display

_____ at People's Square.

70. What’s too much for two and just right for one?

secret

71. The Britain Empire was replaced by the

in 1931, which is

that were once colonies of Britain.

72

are the capitals of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

73

The

longest

river

in

Britain

is

the

.

The

most

important

river

is

is

the

most

important

river

in

Scotland.

74 the English are

but the welsh, Scots and Irish are

76

，

let off steam

作

。

78 .We intend to have a ball at the amusement park today.

79 .A

：

Is this your first visit to this city?

B

：

Yes, why?

A

：

Perhaps I should warn you that this city is full of con artists.

B

：

Thanks for telling. I’ll take care.

80.

a

Dear John letter

答案：

1,Britain

commonwealth,

a

free

association

of

independent

counties 2,

Edinburgh,

Cardiff

and Belfast 3, Severn River, Thames River., River Clyde

4, Anglo-Saxons, Celts 6,

发泄强

烈的感情；发脾气

, 7

，摇滚乐曾一度流行，但很快就被别的东西取代了。

all the go

在此作

流行

解。

< br>8

，我们打算今天到游乐场玩个痛快。

have a b all

作

寻乐；痛快地玩

解

,

9

，

con artist

大骗子手

10

，< /p>

绝情信。朝鲜战争期间，美国流行一首名为

的西部歌曲。这是一首男女别离歌，第一句为

John, oh, I hate to write…

原只为士兵用语，且指的是妻子的来信，现 在，一般指年轻人收到恋人的绝情信。

101.

Irony

refers to some contrast or discrepancy between appearance and reality.

102. Which of the following is not Shakespeare’s tragedy?

The Merchant of Venice