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Part A: Basic English

I. Choose the best answer to complete the sentences. (25X1’=25 points)

1. C 2. B 3. B 4. C 5. D 6. C 7. A 8. B 9. D 10. C

11. C 12. B 13. A 14. D 15. C 16. B 17. A 18. B 19. D 20. A

21.C 22. D 23. A 24. B

II. Paraphrase the following sentences. (7X3’=21 points)

1. In their own words, the building was made perfect by adding a penthouse on top of it and painting in bright yellow, but actually this penthouse was intolerably ugly which only showed the builder’s bad taste..

2. This dreadful scene made all human ambitions to make progress and improvement appear as horrible, sad joke.

3. As soon as the 1920s is mentioned, middle-aged people begin to recollect it with bitter-sweet longing.

4. Work also frees man from nature and turns him into a social being that is independent of nature.

5. Work became the major element in a system that preached self-denial and repression of desire;

6. Actually they (the employers) would like to whip all the workers they consider to be lazy and troublesome.

7. The war only served to speed up the breakdown of the Victorian social structure.

III. Identify the figure of speech used in each of the following sentences. (10X1’= 10 points)

1. metaphor 2. simile 3. antithesis 4. euphemism 5. alliteration 6. inversion

7. personification 8. transferred epithet 9. synecdoche 10. oxymoron

IV . Read the following passage and make a summary of it with around 100 words. (1X20’= 20 points)

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Part B Linguistics

V . Translate the following linguistic terms into Chinese, and vice versa. (15*1’=15 points)

1. 作为外语的英语 2. 语法范畴 3. 黑话，行话 4. 变体，语体

5. 浊音 6. 语境 7. 辅音 8. 二分法 9. 中介语 10. 倒装

11. 功能语法 12. 概念意义 13. 实义词 14. 计算机辅助学习 15. 比较级 VI. Filling the following blanks with a proper word, one word for each blank. (20X1’= 20 points)

1. semantics 2. design 3. performative 4. metalingual 5. syntax 6.

Association 7. stop 8. phoneme 9. peak 10. invariable 11. sememe

12. acronyms 13. split 14. recursiveness 15. Phrase 16. substitution

17. thematic 18. complementary 19. quality 20. specialized

VII. Explain the following terms. (4X5’=20 points)

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