General Knowledge
Unit 1
1. The English Civil Wars broke out in the ___________.
A. 1630s B. 1640s C. 1650s D. 1660s 2. The World Bank is located in ___________ of the United States.
A. Washington B. New York City C. Houston D. Chicago
3. ___________ is the capital city of Ontario, which is also the multicultural, entertainment, financial, and
business capital of Canada.
A. Ottawa B. Toronto C. Quebec D. Montreal
4. It is in February ___________ that came the historic visit of Nixon to China. During the visit
Sino-America Joint Communique was signed, which agreed on the fact that there was only one legal government in China, that of the People‟s Republic of China.,
A. 1971 B. 1972 C. 1979 D. 1981
5. English Romanticism is generally considered to have begun in 1798 with the publication of a joint
volume of poetry, Lyrical Ballads, written by ___________ and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. A. John Keats B. George Byron C. William Wordsworth D. William Blake 6. ___________ is a representative novelist of the Jazz Age.
A. Dos Passos B. F. Scott Fitzgerald C. Ernest Hemingway D. Gertrude Stein
7. ___________ is a poem concerned with the spiritual breakup of a modem civilization in which human
life has lost its meaning, significance and purpose.
A. The Waste Land B. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard C. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner D. Prometheus Unbound
8. The description of a language at some point in history is called a ___________ study.
A. prescriptive B. synchronic C. descriptive D. diachronic 9. Which of the following is an inflectional affix?
A. un- B. over- C. -tion D. -ing 10. The theory of cooperative principle is proposed by___________.
A. Austin B. Searle C. Grice D. Sapir Unit 2
1. Beginning in 1929, the Great Depression which caused a major worldwide depression first began in
___________.
A. The United States B. Britain C. Germany D. France 2. Common Sense is a pamphlet written by___________.
A. Thomas More B. Francis Bacon C. John Locke D. Thomas Paine 3. The capital of Australia is ___________.
A. Melbourne B. Canberra C. Sydney D. New South Wales
4. The Domesday Book is a survey of England‟s productive capacity similar to a modern census
commissioned under ___________‟s rule. A. Alfred the Great B. Elizabeth I C. Henry II D. William I
5. ___________ is NOT an English playwright.
A. William Shakespeare B. Ben Johnson C. Samuel Beckett D. William Golding
6. ___________ is the author of The Scarlet Letter, a novel concerned with the life of Puritans in early
America.
A. Edgar Allan Poe B. James Fenimore Cooper C. Nathaniel Hawthorne D. Frederick Douglass
7. ___________ imitated the characteristics of ancient Roman writers, including Horace, Virgil, Cicero, etc.
A. Neo-classicism B. Modernism C. Naturalism D. Realism
8. The fact that different languages have different words for the same object is a good illustration of the
___________ feature of language.
A. duality B. displacement C. arbitrariness D. productivity 9. What type of sentence is “Jim has failed in the exam though he has been working hard.”?
A. A simple sentence. B. A coordinate sentence. C. A complex sentence. D. None of the above. 10. Language acquisition device (LAD) was proposed by___________.
A. Sapir B. Saussure C. Chomsky D. Halliday Unit 3
1. Which are the two major parties in Britain now?
A. The Conservative and the Labour. B. The Liberal and the Labour. C. The Democratic and the Conservative. D. The Democratic and the Liberal. 2. “The Star-Spangled Banner” is the national ___________ of the United States.
A. anthem B. flag C. emblem D. both B and C 3. Which of the following cities is the capital of New Zealand?
A. Christchurch. B. Dunedin. C. Auckland. D. Wellington.
4. In the Seven Years War between England and France, French were driven out of the North American Continent and the French colony in Canada was reorganized as the British province: ___________ in 1763.
A. Ontario B. Quebec C. Nova Scotia D. Newfoundland 5. ___________ compiled the first English dictionary, A Dictionary of the English Language.
A. Samuel Johnson B. Walter Scott C. James Boswell D. Noah Webster
6. The Jungle is a novel by ___________ which exposed the corruption of the American meat-packing industry during the early 20th century, and was considered as a representative muckraking novel. A. Upton Sinclair B. Theodore Dreiser C. Sinclair Lewis D. Frank Norris
7. ___________ is a narrative technique that presents thoughts as if they were coming directly from a character‟s mind without any consideration of orders of events. A. Monologue B. Allusion C. Stream-of-consciousness D. Psychological penetration
8. The study of how sounds are put together and used to convey meaning in communication is
___________.
A. phonetics B. phonology C. morphology D. semantics 9. The sense relationship between animal and horse is___________.
A. hyponymy B. homonymy C. polysemy D. synonymy
10. Which of the following is NOT a compound word?
A. landlady B. greenhouse C. uplift D. unacceptable Unit 4
1. In the United States, the Thanksgiving Day is the ___________ Thursday of November.
A. first B. second C. third D. fourth
2. In Britain, ___________ became the cultural centre for the youths and was the birthplace of the Beetles.
A. London B. Glasgow C. Manchester D. Liverpool 3. Among the political parties in Ireland, which is NOT among the three biggest ones?
A. The Democratic Socialist. B. The Labor Party. C. Fianna Fail. D. Fine Gael. 4. ___________ is the capital of Wales.
A. Belfast B. Birmingham C. Sussex D. Cardiff
5. ___________ is the author of To the Lighthouse, a landmark novel of modernism which skillfully applies the technique of stream-of-consciousness in the narration. A. James Joyce B. Virginia Woolf C. Henry James D. John Fowles
6. In 1935, Ernest Hemingway wrote: “All modern American literature comes from one book by
___________ called „Huckleberry Finn.‟ There was nothing before. And there has been nothing as good since.”
A. William Dean Howells B. Theodore Dreiser C. Washington Irving D. Mark Twain
7. “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood/ And sorry I could not travel both/ And be one traveler, long I
stood/ And looked down one as far as I could/ To where it bent in the undergrowth.” These lines are the first stanza of a poem by___________.
A. Robert Frost B. Wallace Stevens C. T. S. Eliot D. Carl Sandburg 8. ___________ is the study of language in relation to society.
A. Historical linguistics B. Psycholinguistics C. Semantics D. Sociolinguistics
9. The design features of human language include the following EXCEPT___________
A. duality B. productivity C. performance D. arbitrariness 10. The Input Hypothesis was put forward by___________.
A. Saussure B. Krashen
C. Noam Chomsky D.M.A.K. Halliday Unit 5
1. Which of the following kings (or queens) was NOT a sovereign of the Tudor dynasty?
A. Henry VII. B. James I. C. Edward VI. D. Elizabeth I.
2. In Australia, legislative power is vested in the Commonwealth Parliament, which consists of the
following EXCEPT___________.
A. the Queen B. the President
C. the Senate D. the House of Representative 3. The head of state of New Zealand is___________.
A. the President B. Governor-General C. Queen Elizabeth II D. the Prime Minister 4. ___________ is known as the automobile capital of the world.
A. Detroit B. Colorado C. Denver D. Chicago 5. ___________ is NOT a 19th century English novelist.
A. Jane Austen B. George Eliot C. Charles Dickens D. D. H. Lawrence
6. ___________ is the author of Walden, or Life in the Woods, a major work of American
Transcendentalism.
A. Ralph Waldo Emerson B. Henry David Thoreau C. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow D. Harriet Beecher Stowe
7. Richard Wright, ___________ and James Baldwin are the three leading characters of the Harlem
Renaissance.
A. James Langston Hughes B. Paul Laurence Dunbar C. Frederick Douglass D. Alice Walker 8. The father of modern linguistics is___________.
A. Saussure B. John Austin C. Noam Chomsky D. Halliday 9. Which of the following words contains an inflectional morpheme?
A. weary B. talking C. careful D. manifestation
10. The three metafunctions of language proposed by Halliday include the following EXCEPT__________.
A. ideational B. interpersonal C. recreational D. textual Unit 6
1. Canada is the world‟s ___________ largest country after Russia.
A. first B. second C. third D. fourth 2. Of all the universities in the United States, ___________ is the oldest one.
A. Princeton B. Harvard C. Yale D. Stanford
3. In Britain, Parliament consists of the House of Lords, the House of Commons, and___________.
A. the Labour Party B. the Prime Minister C. the Lord Chancellor D. the Monarch
4. In ___________ the national anthem of Australia was changed from God Save the Queen to revised
patriotic song called Advance Australia Fair.
A. 1946 B. 1965 C. 1972 D. 1984 5. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the first novel of___________.
A. Henry James B. James Joyce C. George Orwell D. Norman Mailer 6. ___________ is a novel by Saul Bellow, the Nobel Prize winner in 1976.
A. The Family Moskat B. On the Road
C. Herzog D. The Thin Red Line 7. ___________ is a poem by the Lake Poets.
A. Don Juan B. Ode on a Grecian Urn C. Prometheus Unbound D. The Excursion 8. Which of the following is NOT a fricative in English?
A. [z] B. [d] C. [f] D. [v] 9. The word smog which comes from smoke and fog is a(n) ___________
A. blending B. acronym C. derivation D. compounding 10. According to Austin, which of the following utterances can be regarded as a performative?
A. The sea is beautiful.
B. I bet you sixpence it will rain tomorrow. C. Jim is running along the road.
D. He will go to London. Unit 7
1. Australia was first colonized on January ___________, 1788, which is now known as Australia Day.
A. 16th B. 20th C. 26th D. 30th 2. What is the British Prime Minister‟s residence?
A. No. 10 Downing Street. B. No. 5 Downing Street. C. No. 8 Downing Street. D. No. 20 Downing Street.
3. Of all the states of America, Rhode Island is the smallest while ___________ is the largest of the country
on the mainland.
A. Alaska B. Missouri C. Texas D. Ohio
4. In Britain, a session of Parliament usually lasts for ___________ years unless the Prime Minister
dissolves the Parliament.
A. four B. five C. six D. seven 5. Mrs. Warren’s Profession is a play by___________.
A. Oscar Wilde B. George Bernard Shaw C. Samuel Beckett D. John Osborne
6. The Sound and the Fury is the masterpiece of ___________, a leading novelist of the Southern
Literature.
A. William Cuthbert Faulkner B. Endora Welty
C. Margaret Mitchell D. Hannery O‟Connor 7. ___________ is NOT a Nobel Laureate in Literature.
A. Eugene O‟Neill B. Ernest Hemingway C. Mark Twain D. William Golding
8. The distinction between competence and performance is made by___________.
A. Halliday B. Chomsky C. Bloomfield D. Saussure 9. Language variation according to use in specific situations is studied in terms of ___________.
A. register B. jargon C. style D. dialect
10. The word holiday originally meant holy day; but now the word signifies any day on 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 Unit 8
1. The national day of the United States of America falls on___________.
A. July4th B. June4th C. July 14th D. June 14th
2. In Britain, ___________ is the first Labour Party leader who won the third consecutive general election, though he resigned in the mid of the third term.
A. Tony Blair B. Gordon Brown C. Clement Attlee D. James MacDonald 3. In Australia, who becomes leader of the official opposition?
A. The leader of the majority party which won the second largest number of seats.
B. The leader of the other two joint majority parties which didn‟t win a majority of seats. C. The leader of the largest minority party. D. The leader of the joint-minority-party.
4. The national day of New Zealand is ___________, to honor the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840.
A. January 26th B. February 6th C. March 7th D. April 5th
5. ___________ is NOT a comedy.
A. A Midsummer Night’s Dream B. The Merchant of Venice C. Romeo and Juliet D. As You Like It 6. ___________ is NOT a black novelist.
A. James Baldwin B. Toni Morrison C. John Steinbeck D. Richard Wright
7. Eugene O‟Neill‟s The Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Tennessee Williams‟___________ and Arthur
Miller‟s Death of a Salesman are the three greatest American plays.
A. The Glass Menagerie B. The Streetcar Named Desire C. The Hairy Ape D. All My Sons
8. The design features of human language include the following EXCEPT___________.
A. duality B. displacement C. parole D. arbitrariness 9. The affix in the word speaking is a(n) ___________.
A. derivational suffix B. inflectional suffix C. root D. free morpheme 10. The style of “See ya, buddy!” is ___________.
A. formal B. consultative C. frozen D. intimate Unit 9
1. Of all the states of America, ___________ is the smallest of the country while Alaska is the largest one.
A. Maine B. Utah C. Rhode Island D. Kansas 2. Which of the following is NOT an exponent of English Renaissance?
A. Ben Johnson. B. Christopher Marlowe. C. William Shakespeare. D. William Caxton.
3. Gettysburg Address is a speech by ___________, the President who led the North to win the Civil War.
A. Andrew Jackson B. Abraham Lincoln C. Thomas Jefferson D. Woodrow Wilson 4. In which year did Canada become a country?
A. 1780. B. 1838. C. 1867. D. 1871.
5. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard is a representative ___________ poem written by Thomas Gray.
A. metaphysical B. modernist C. sentimentalist D. romanticist 6. Martin Eden is the semi-autobiographical novel by ___________
A. Upton Sinclair B. Stephen Crane C. Frank Norris D. Jack London 7. ___________ is a 20th century poet.
A. John Donne B. Alfred Tennyson C. Emily Dickinson D. Robert Frost 8. Which of the following is NOT a plosive in English?
A. [b] B. [t] C. [k] D. [v]
9. What type of sentence is “The question of whether war is inevitable is one which has concerned many
great writers.”?
A. A simple sentence. B. A coordinate sentence. C. A complex sentence. D. None of the above. 10. The sense relationship between lend and borrow is___________.
A. complementary antonymy B. gradable antonymy C. converse antonymy D. none of the above
Unit 10
1. Among all the states in Australia, ___________ is the oldest state.
A. Victoria B. Queensland C. New South Wales D. Tasmania
2. In the United States, the presiding officer of the House of Representative, the Speaker, is ___________.
A. elected by the members of the House of Representative B. appointed by the President
C. appointed by the Vice President
D. elected by the members of the Congress
3. Between 1945 and 1951, the ___________ government established an extensive health and welfare
system and the “Welfare State” had begun.
A. Labour B. Liberal C. Republican D. Conservative 4. Kiwi is the national ___________ of New Zealand.
A. plant B. flower C. bird D. tree
5. Alexander Pope is a representative figure of neo-classicism, famous for his literary criticism,
___________ and his poetry.
A. criticism on Shakespeare B. translation of Iliad and Odyssey C. literary innovations D. political influences
6. ___________ is the author of Catch-22, a masterpiece of black humor and irony.
A. John Barth B. Kurt Vonnegut C. Joseph Heller D. James Jones 7. The Victorian Age witnessed the flourish of English literature, mostly seen in___________.
A. plays B. novels C. poetry D. prose 8. The word flu which comes from influenza is created through ___________.
A. blending B. acronym C. derivation D. abbreviation 9. Which of the following is NOT related to Noam Chomsky?
A. deep structure B. language acquisition device C. transformational grammar D. textual metafunction
10. When a pidgin language is adopted by a community as its primary language and learned by children as
a mother tongue, it is called ___________.
A. creole B. dialect C. lingua franca D. slang Unit 11
1. Britain was the first country to industrialize because of the following factors EXCEPT___________.
A. Britain was well placed geographically to participate in European and world trade.
B. Britain had large supplies of coal and oil, which was favorable for its industrial development. C. British engineers had sound training and the inventors were respected.
D. Britain had a stable political environment with a parliament composed largely of capitalistic landowners and some merchants.
2. In America, the three most influential newspapers are the following EXCEPT ___________.
A. New York Times B. Times
C. Washington Post D. Los Angeles Times 3. Which of the following country is NOT located in the Northern Hemisphere?
A. Australia. B. Britain. C. Ireland. D. Canada. 4. The two official languages in Canada are ___________.
A. English and Spanish B. English and Russian
C. English and French D. English and German 5. English Renaissance Period was an age of ___________.
A. drama B. poetry C. prose D. novels 6. ___________ is the essence of the English Renaissance.
A. Chivalry B. Humanism C. Heroism D. Pessimism 7. ___________ is NOT an American-Jewish novelist.
A. James Langston Hughes B. Saul Bellow
C. Isaac Bashevis Singer D. Bernard Malamud 8. Which of the following is NOT a fricative in English?
A. [z] B. [k] C. [fl D. [hl
9. The word bird once referred to “young bird”, but now it is used to mean “any kind of bird”. This is an
example of ___________.
A. widening of meaning B. narrowing of meaning C. meaning shill D. loss of meaning 10. Which of the following is NOT a derivation?
A. lengthen B. foolish C. runaway D. earthward Unit 12
1. ___________ lie(s) between the boundary of Canada and the U. S. and serve (s) as the boundary between
the two countries.
A. The Mississippi River B. The Great Lakes C. The Rocky Mountains D. The Grand Canyon 2. In Britain, ___________ has the ultimate authority of legislation.
A. the Monarch B. the Cabinet
C. the House of Lords D. the House of Commons 3. The mother river in Canada is ___________.
A. St. Lawrence B. River Columbia C. River Shannon D. the Murray
4. ___________ is the smallest state in Australia and is also called “the Apple Isle and the Holiday Isle” for
its beautiful scenery.
A. Queensland B. Victoria C. New South Wales D. Tasmania 5. King Lear is one of Shakespeare‟s___________.
A. comedies B. tragedies
C. histories D. dramatic romances
6. Song of Myself is the first poem of ___________ collection of poems, Leaves of Grass.
A. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow B. Walt Whitman C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge D. John Keats 7. ___________ is a 19th century American novelist.
A. Emily Dickinson B. Henry David Thoreau C. Edgar Allan Poe D. Ernest Hemingway 8. Which of the following is an abbreviation?
A. smog B. WTO C. bike D. edit
9. The study of relations between linguistic features and the social class of speakers is called ___________.
A. pragmatics B. psycholinguistics
C. sociolinguistics D. semantics 10. The sense relationship between animal and insect is ___________.
A. hyponymy B. homonymy C. polysemy D. synonymy Unit 13
1. In the Untied States, ___________ shares both the nickname “cradle of Liberty” and “The Athens of
America”.
A. Philadelphia B. New York
C. Boston D. Washington D. C. 2. The largest city in Scotland is ___________.
A. Glasgow B. Manchester C. Edinburgh D. Cardiff
3. ___________ is the second largest city in Canada and is also the second largest French-speaking city in
the world behind Paris.
A. Quebec B. Montreal C. Toronto D. Ottawa
4. The Wars of Roses was fought between the House of Lancaster and the House of York, with Henry Tudor,
or ___________, who founded the Tudor Dynasty.
A. Richard III B. Edward IV C. Henry VIII D. Henry VII 5. The rise of English novels was in the 18th century with ___________.
A. Henry Fielding‟s Tom Jones B. Jonathan Swift‟s Gulliver’s Travels C. Daniel Defoe‟s Robinson Crusoe D. Samuel Richardson‟s Pamela 6. ___________ is NOT a poem by Victorian poets.
A. In Memoriam B. Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse C. The Ring and the Book D. Songs of Innocence 7. Moby Dick is the masterpiece of ___________.
A. Nathaniel Hawthorne B. Edgar Allan Poe C. Frederick Douglass D. Herman Melville
8. The phenomenon that different languages have different names for a rose illustrates the language design
feature of ___________.
A. duality B. displacement C. performance D. arbitrariness 9. What type of sentence is “Mr Hoffmann insists that he was involved in this heated argument.”?
A. A simple sentence. B. A coordinate sentence. C. A complex sentence. D. None of the above.
10. The phenomenon that words sharing the same meaning is called ___________.
A. hyponymy B. synonymy C. polysemy D. homonymy Unit 14
1. Which of the following was NOT one of the policies of Margaret Thatcher?
A. The use of monetarist policies to control inflation. B. The return to state-owned industries.
C. The strengthening of the role of market forces in the economy. D. The weakening of trade unions.
2. In 1774, the First Continental Congress met in___________
A. Philadelphia B. New York
C. Boston D. Washington D. C.
3. The term “British disease” is now often used to characterize Britain‟s ___________ decline.
A. political B. cultural C. economic D. military
4. New Zealand achieved full internal and external autonomy by the Statute of Westminster Adoption Act in
___________.
A. 1945 B. 1947 C. 1951 D. 1956 5. These lines, “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind”, are quoted from ___________.
A. Keats‟ Ode to Autumn B. Wordsworth‟s The Excursion C. Byron‟s Don Juan D. Shelley‟s Ode to the West Wind
6. The Rising Glory of America is written by ___________, the Revolutionary Poet of America.
A. Philip Morin Freneau B. Anne Bradstreet C. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow D. Edgar Allan Poe
7. Southern Literature refers to a group of American writers in south America with a striking regionalist
characteristic including writers EXCEPT ___________.
A. William Faulkner B. Eudora Welty C. Margaret Mitchell D. Bernard Malamud 8. Which of the following words contains an inflectional morpheme?
A. earthward B. heated C. careless D. discard 9. The description of the English developments through time is called a ___________ study.
A. prescriptive B. synchronic C. descriptive D. diachronic 10. Which of the following is NOT a minimal pair?
A. beat/bit B. pin/bin C. kin/king D. cut/put Unit 15
1. In the United States, the head of the executive branch is ___________.
A. the Congress B. the Supreme Court C. the Prime Minister D. the President 2. The highest mountain in Britain is ___________.
A. the Pennine Chain B. Alps
C. Ben Nevis D. Rocky Mountains
3. The British North America Act of 1867 established ___________ as a domain.
A. Australia B. Canada C. New Zealand D. Ireland 4. The longest river in Ireland is ___________ River.
A. Mississippi B. Severn C. Nile D. Shannon 5. ___________ is NOT a novel by the Bronte sisters.
A. Jane Eyre B. Pride and Prejudice C. Wuthering Heights D. Agnes Grey 6. ___________ is a 20th century American poet.
A. Wallace Stevens B. William Butler Yeats C. Alfred Tennyson D. Walt Whitman 7. ___________ is NOT one of Mark Twain‟s novels.
A. The Innocents Abroad B. The Gilded Age
C. The Sketch Book D. The Prince and the Pauper
8. What type of sentence is “The division of labour and all human activities based on the division of labour
are dependent on language.”?
A. A simple sentence. B. A coordinate sentence. C. A complex sentence. D. None of the above.
9. In the late 1950s, the Transformational-Generative grammar proposed by ___________ began to bring a
revolution in linguistics.
A. Saussure B. Bloomfield C. Halliday D. Chomsky 10. The sense relationship between boy and girl is ___________.
A. complementary antonymy B. gradable antonymy C. converse antonymy D. none of the above
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