英语专业知识竞赛
为了帮助大家更好地进行英语专业考研复习，同时调动大家的积极性，本人决定在此论坛范围内搞一次英语专业竞赛，优胜者将会获得丰厚奖品。试题涉及语言学、英美文学、英美概况等方面，希望大家踊跃参与。每一名在论坛的有志于考英语专业研究生的朋友均可参与。奖项设置如下：
一等奖：英语专业课复习资料大礼包（语言学概论笔记、英美文学笔记、英美文学作家作品一览表、英语专业八级权威复习资料、英语语言学各章习题、英美文学各章习题、英美概况各章习题）
二等奖：英语专业课复习资料中礼包（语言学概论笔记、英美文学笔记、英美文学作家作品一览表、英语专业八级权威复习资料）
三等奖：英语专业课复习资料小礼包（语言学概论笔记、英美文学笔记）
所有参加竞赛的朋友还将会获得本次竞赛试题的分析。
从即日起接受的索要笔记的邮件将不再答复，如果想要笔记的话请参加竞赛答题，以前上传的笔记我将在近日内删除。
本次竞赛时间：2004年10月17日——2004年10月28日，请参加竞赛的同学们在10月28日晚6：00前将自己的答卷发至leili0816@hotmail
竞赛规则：
江苏省人亊考试信息网1. 独立完成，不准问其他人（我可以判断是否为独立完成，具体怎么判断恕不奉告）
2. 开卷考试，可以参考资料（与上一条不矛盾，可以参考资料，但不能问别人）
3. 答题条理分明，言简意赅，分析到位网上报名教师资格证流程
4. 如有参考资料，请在答卷后面说明参考了什么资料 (i.e. do a bibliography)
5. 如果在东北师范大学外语学院听过课，请尽量不要重复老师的话回答问题，可以有自己的观点，要言之成理。
6. 本次竞赛共20题，其中：语言学8题，英美文学8题，英美概况4题，不设标准答案，只要言之成理即可得分。
以下为竞赛试题：
I. English Linguistics
1. How do you distinguish between intra-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary branches of linguistics?高新区人才市场招聘信息
2. If a student pronounces “very well” as /weri vel/, how would you correct him or her in the light of phonetic knowledge?
3. Observe the sound of the letter P in the words “port” and “sport”, and answer the following questions:
(1) Specify the phonetic features of this sound as a phoneme.
(2) What are the phonetic transcription and phonemic transcription? Please give the two k
inds of transcriptions of these two words.
(3) Are these two sounds in complementary distribution? Justify your answer.
4. The word vice-president may be explained as a compound or a derived word. How do you understand this?
5. Is “John said to Bob that he would do that yesterday” an ambiguous sentence? Why?
6. How do people look at sense relations in semantics?
7. The following conversation seems quite bizarre in isolation. Can you imagine a situation in which it will seem acceptable and natural?
A: I have a fourteen-year-old son.
B: Well, that’s all right.
A: I also have a dog.
B: Oh, I’m sorry.
8. What is culture? What is the relationship between language and culture? Does language decide culture or vice versa?
II. British Literature
1. Please summarize Chaucer’s literary career.
2. What is the theme of Shakespeare’s tragedy “Hamlet”?
3. Make a comment on Byron.安徽二建吧
4. Please tell the story of Jane Austen’s novel “Sense and Sensibility” briefly.
5. How many groups do you think the 20会计初级报名入口th century British writers fall into? What are they?
III. American Literature
1. Who is the writer of the short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”? What do you think a short story is? Please analyze this short story.
2. What do you think is the theme of the famous novel “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”?
3. Please compare the literature of the 1920s and the 1930s in America.
4. What are the features of the “theatre of absurd”?
IV. Survey of Britain and America
1. Give a brief presentation of the US economy.
2. What was Roosevelt’s role in the Second World War?
3. What do you know about the states schools and public schools in the United Kingdom?
4. What is the Wars of the Roses? How did it get its name? How long did it last? What is the significance of the war?