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【人文知识】 　　PART III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (10 MIN) 　　There are ten multiple-choice questions in this section. Choose the best answer to each question. Mark your answers on your coloured answer sheet 31. The largest city in Canada is _______ A. Vancouver. B. Montreal. C. Toronto D. Ottawa. 32. According to the United States Constitution, the legislative power is invested in _______ A. the Federal Government. B. the Supreme Court. C. the Cabinet. D. the Congress. 33. Which of the following is the oldest sport in the United States? A. Baseball. B. Tennis. C. Basketball. D. American football. 34. The head of the executive branch in New Zealand is _______ A. the President. B. the Governor-General. C. the British monarch, D. the Prime Minister. 35. The Canterbury Tales, a collection of stories told by a group of pilgrims on their way to Canterbury, is an important poetic work by _______ A. William Langland. B. Geoffrey Chaucer. C. William Shakespeare. D. Alfred Tennyson. 36. Who wrote The American? A. Herman Melville. B. Nathaniel Hawthorne. C. Henry James. D. Theodore Dreiser. 37. All of the following are well-known female writers in 20th -century Britain EXCEPT A. George Eliot. B. Iris Jean Murdoch. C. Doris Lessing. D. Muriel Spark. 40. The phenomenon that words having different meanings have the same form is called A. hyponymy. B. synonymy. C. polysemy. D. homonymy. 31-40、BCADBBDACD 31. The majority of the current population in the UK are decedents of all the following tribes respectively EXCEPT A. the Anglos B. the Celts C. the Jutes D. the Saxons 32. The Head of State of Canada is represented by A. the Monarch B. the President C. the Prime Minister D. the Governor-general 33. The Declaration of Independence was written by A. Thomas Jefferson B. George Washington C. Alexander Hamilton D. James Madison 34. The original inhabitants of Australia were A. the Red Indians B. the Eskimos C. the Aborigines D. the Maoris 35. Which of the following novels was written by Emily Bro