Part III     GENERAL KZNOWLEDGE (10 MIN)
There are ten multi-choice questions in this section. Choose the best answer to each question. Mark your answer on your colored answer sheet.

31. _____________________ is the world’s largest exporter of lamb and mutton.
 A. New Zealand  B. Australia  C. Canada  D. America 

32. _____________________ is popularly known in the West as the Land Down Under.
 A. Britain    B. Canada  C. Australia  D. New Zealand 

33. Shakespeare wrote all the following works EXCEPT ____________________.
 A. Hamlet   B. King Lear  C. Othello  D. Wuthering Heights

34. Mark Twain is most famous for ____________________________________.
 A. poems    B. novels   C. dramas  D. science fiction  

35. ______________________________was NOT written by Charles Dickens.
 A. David Copperfield B. Oliver Twist C. Sons and Lovers  D. A Tale of Two Cities 

36. British prime minister normally serves a ______ term.
 A. two-year   B. five-year  C. four-year  D. six-year  

37. __________________________ is sometimes called the birthplace of America.
 A. New England  B. the South  C. the West  D. the Midwest 

38. Semantics is the study of ______________________.
 A. linguistic competence  B. language functions C. meanings D. social behavior 

39. Which of the following is not generally believed to be area of linguistics?
 A. syntax   B. semantics   C. phonology   D. etiology 

40. TG grammar was advanced by_______________________________.
 A. Searle   B. Whorf    C. Halliday   D. Noam Chomsky


PARTⅣ　ＰＲＯＯＦＲＥＡＤＩＮＧ＆ ERROR CORRECTION (15 MIN)
The passage contains TEN errors. Each indicated line contains a maximum of ONE error. In each case, only ONE word is involved. You should proofread the passage and correct it in the following way.

For a wrong word,     underline the wrong word and write the correct one in the blank provided at the end of the line.

For a missing word,    mark the position of the missing word with a “∧”sign and white the word you believe to be missing in the blank provided at the end of the line.

For an unnecessary word,  cross the unnecessary word with a slash ““∧” and put the word in the blank provided at the end of the line.

EXAMPLE

 When “∧”art museum wants a new exhibit,      (1) an
It nev/er buys things in finished form and hangs     (2) never
them on the wall. When a natural history museum
wants an exhibition, it must often build it.          (3) exhibit

Pronouncing a language is a skill. Every normal person is expert with  (1) ____
The skill of pronouncing his own language; but few people are even 
moderately proficient at pronouncing foreign languages. Now there many
reasons this, some obvious, some perhaps not so obvious. But I suggest                                                                                       (2) ____
that the fundamental reason which people in general do not speak     (3) ____
foreign languages very much better than they do are that they never  (4) ____
fail grasp the true nature of the problem of learning to pronounce,     (5) ____
and consequently never set to tackling it in the right way. Far            (6) ____
too many people fail to realize that pronouncing a foreign language
is a skill--- one needs careless training of a special kind,                    (7) ____
and one that cannot be acquired by just leaving it to take care of   
itself. I think even teachers of language, while recognizing the
importance of a good accent, tend to neglect, in their practical
teaching, the branch of study concerning with                                  (8) ____
speaking the language. So the first point which I want to make is      (9) ____
that English pronunciation must be taught; the teacher
should be prepared to devote some of the lesson time to this,
and by his whole attitude to the subject should get the student
to feel that here is a matter worthy receiving his close attention.       (10) ____