2008年英语专八全真模拟冲刺卷(一)下

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PART III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (10 MIN)
There are ten multiple-choice questions in this section. Choose the best answer to each question. Mark your answers on your answer sheet.
31. __________________ does not belong to New England.
A. Maine
B. Vermont
C. New York
D. Rhode Island

32. ________________ is the key conception in Christianity in which the three aspects of the same God are united as one. A. Resurrection
B. Ascension
C. Trinity
D. Holy Spirit

33. The first president in U. S. history who resigned because of a scandal is _____________.
A. Wilson
B. Nixon
C. Jackson
D. Kennedy

34. A traditional food enjoyed by Americans during Thanksgiving Day is ______________________.
A. steam bun
B. roast turkey
C. roast duck
D. fried fish

35. Thoreau’s _______________ is full of eco-wisdom.
A. Nature
B. Self-Reliance
C. Walden
D. Moby Dick

36. __________________ takes London as the setting in most of his novels.
A. Dickens
B. Hardy
C. Thackeray
D. Defoe

37. __________________ is the penname of William Sidney Porter, a famous short-story writer.
A. Mark Twain
B. O. Henry
C. Henry James
D. Stephen Crane

38. __________________ is not a way of word-formation.
A. Derivation
B. Conversion
C. Blending
D. Imitation

39. The smallest linguistic unit that can be used independently is ______________.
A. morpheme
B. phoneme
C. minimal pair
D. word

40. “Daddy” and “Father” are ________________ synonyms.
A. dialectal
B. stylistic
C. emotive
D. semantically different

PART IV PROOFREADING&. ERROR CORRECTION (15 MIN)
Proofread the given passage on ANSWER SHEET TWO as instructed.