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Part ⅢGeneral Knowledge

31. Which party is in power now in the UK?

[A]The Conservative Party.

[B]The Labour Party.

[C]The Liberal Democrats.

[D]The Scottish National Party.

32. Which of the following lakes does Canada share with the United States?

[A]Lake Winnipeg.

[B]The Great Slave Lake.

[C]The Great Bear Lake.

[D]The five Great Lakes.

33. U. S. senators serve for ____ years after they are elected.

[A]four

[B]six

[C]three

[D]two

34. Who were the natives of Australia before the arrival of the British settlers?

[A]The Eskimos.

[B]The Maori.

[C]The Indians.

[D]The Aborigines.

35. ____ is best known for the technique of dramatic monologue in his poems.

[A]Robert Browning

[B]W. B. Yeats

[C]William Blake

[D]William Wordsworth

36. Which of the following is a contemporary British poet?

[A]Ted Hughes.

[B]William Wordsworth.

[C]E. E. Cummings.

[D]Carl Sandburg.

37. Who was the author of Moby-Dick?

[A]Nathaniel Hawthorne.

[B]Ralph Waldo Emerson.

[C]Herman Melville.

[D]Washington Irving.

38. The words "tennis, badminton, golf, basketball and football" constitute a ____ field.

[A]semantic

[B]connotative

[C]conceptual

[D]collocative

39. A: Do you like ice cream? B: Yes, I do.

This is an example of ____.

[A]reference

[B]substitution

[C]conjunction

[D]ellipsis

40. Which of the following is a voiceless consonant?

[A][ j ]

[B][ w ]

[C][ p ]

[D][ l ]