26. The third paragraph does NOT claim that men
A. prevent women from taking up certain professions.
B. secretly admire women’s intellect and resolution.
C. doubt whether women really mean to succeed in business.
D. forbid women to join certain clubs and societies.
27. The third paragraph
A. generally agrees with the first paragraph
B. has no connection with the first paragraph
C. repeats the argument of the second paragraph
D. contradicts the last paragraph
28. At the end of the last paragraph the author uses humorous exaggeration in order to
A. show that men are stronger than women
B. carry further the ideas of the earliest paragraphs
C. support the first sentence of the same paragraph
D. disown the ideas he is expressing
29. The usual idea of the cave man in the last paragraph
A. is based on the study of archaeology
B. illustrates how people expect men to behave
C. is dismissed by the author as an irrelevant joke
D. proves that the man, not woman, should be the wooer
30. The opening quotation from Margaret Mead sums up a relationship between man and woman which the author
A. approves of
B. argues is natural
C. completely rejects
D. expects to go on changing
PART III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (10 MIN)
31. ______ is the capital city of Canada.
A. Vancouver
B. Ottawa √
C. Montreal
D. York
32. U.S. presidents normally serves a (an) _________term.
A. two-year
B. four-year √
C. six-year
D. eight-year
33. Which of the following cities is NOT located in the Northeast, U.S.?
A. Huston. √
B. Boston.
C. Baltimore.
D. Philadelphia.
34. ________ is the state church in England.
A. The Roman Catholic Church.
B. The Baptist Church
C. The Protestant Church
D. The Church of England √
注:The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and acts as the mother and senior branch of the worldwide Anglican Communion as well as a founding member of the Porvoo Communion.
35. The novel Emma is written by
A. Mary Shelley.
B. Charlotte Brontë.
C. Elizabeth C. Gaskell.
D. Jane Austen. √
36. Which of following is NOT a romantic poet?
A. William Wordsworth.
B. George Elliot. √
C. George G. Byron.
D. Percy B. Shelley.
37. William Sidney Porter, known as O. Henry, is most famous for
A. his poems.
B. his plays.
C. his short stories. √
D. his novels
注:O. Henry was the pen name of William Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862 - June 5, 1910), He was famous for his short stories and a master of the surprise ending, O. Henry is remembered best for such enduring favorites as "The Gift of the Magi" and "The Ransom of Red Chief." The combination of humor and sentiment found in his stories is the basis of their universal appeal.
38. Syntax is the study of
A. language functions.
B. sentence structures. √
C. textual organization.
D. word formation.
注:Definition of Syntax:
a. The study of the rules whereby words or other elements of sentence structure are combined to form grammatical sentences.