要想提高英语专业八级水平，除了每天的练习外，掌握必要的人文知识也是必不可少的。
每天第一个迎接新一天的国家是哪个呢?
新西兰，由于新西兰整个国家非常狭窄，所以新西兰的任何地方距离海洋都不超过110公里，全国只有一个时区。新西兰正好位于国际日期变更线以西的第一个时区，所以它是第一个迎接新一天的国家。
1. It was during ____ reign that the name Great Britain came into being.
A Mary’s B Anne’s C Jame II’s D Oliver Cromwell
2.Where is Edinburgh?
A In Wales B In Scotland C In Northern Ireland D In Ireland
3. One of the most famous national parks in the U.S. is the ____
A Yellowstone National Park B Hyde Park
C Kakadu National Park D American Fishing Center
4. New Zealand is just west of the International Date Line, so it is the first country to get ____
A frozen B wet C the new day D united
5. Mr.Darcy is a character in ____
A Tess of the D’Urbervilles B Pride and Prejudice C Happy Prince D The Mill on the Floss
6. Lyrical Ballads is the joint work between Wordsworth and his friend____
A Coleridge B Bryon C Keats D Shelly
7.____is the representative work of the Jazz Age
A The Great Gatsby B On the Road C Look Back in Anger D The Sun Also Rises
8. The distinction of langue and parole is made by ____
A Hall B Sapir C Chomsky D Saussure
9. ____examines how meaning is encoded in a language.
A Semantics B Syntax C Pragmatics D Morphology
10.The sentence “I apologize!” belongs to the category of ____according to the speech act theory.
A. expressive B performative C representative D constative
答案
BBACB AADAB
constative为叙述句performative为施为句