The predication of the sentence “Jack is happy” is said to consist of Jack, the _________, and happy, the predicate.

Which of the following sentences is INCORRECT?

A．His sister rather than his parents is at home now.

B．Every boy and every girl are excited to hear the news.

C．His thanks were really sincere.

D．Either Jack or John knows the truth.

Which of the italicized phrases indicates a predicate-object relation(动宾关系)?

A．The enemy"s defeat brought the war to an end.

B．The girl"s story moved all the people in the room.

C．Jack"s visit makes his friends quite excited.

D．Sue"s coat was lost.

Which of the following sentences are ambiguous? If you know how, use tree diagrams to show how these sentences are ambiguous. (1) The children put the toy in tile box. (2) The professor s appointment was shocking. (3) No smoking section is available. (4) Jack refused to change his decision.

2. Creation of the flag Throughout the process, the maple leaf and the colours red and white have been a recurring, common theme between experts and heraldry enthusiasts. After various discussions over time, there were three final designs to choose from: ·a red ensign with the fleur-de-lis and the Union Jack ; ·a flag with three joined maples leaves in between a blue border; ·and the single leaf design in between a red border. Alan Beddoe, a retired naval captain and heraldic adviser to the Royal Canadian Navy, brought forth the three joined maples leaves. That designed was favoured by heraldist and historian Colonel Fortescue Duguid. Though, it was not the first time the single leaf design was suggested. In 1919, Major General (later the Honourable) Sir Eugene Fiset had recommended the single red maple leaf on a white field as Canada’s emblem. The device had been worn by all Canadian Olympic athletes since 1904. The same design was again proposed for the national flag in 1964 by Dr. George Stanley. John Matheson, Member of Parliament from Ontario and the Prime Minister’s parliamentary secretary, played a critical role in the creation and selection of the Flag. He oversaw and coordinated the research and proposal throughout the process, and presented the single leaf design which is based on a strong sense of Canadian history. The combination of red, white and red first appeared in the General Service Medal issued by Queen Victoria. In 1921, red and white were proclaimed Canada’s national colours by King George V. The final design of the stylized maple leaf was established by Jacques St-Cyr, the precise dimensions of red and white were suggested by George Bist, and the technical description of precise shade of red was defined by Dr. Günter Wyszecki. On a Friday afternoon in the late autumn of 1964, an urgent request came from Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson to the desk of Ken Donovan. Mr. Donovan was then an assistant purchasing director with the Canadian Government Exhibition Commission, which later became a part of the Department of Supply and Services. The Prime Minister wanted prototypes of the proposals for the new flag to take to his residence at Harrington Lake the next morning. There were three proposals: ·a Red Ensign with the fleur-de-lis and the Union Jack; ·a design that included three red maple leaves; and ·a red flag with a single, stylized red maple leaf on a white square. The only design samples in existence were drawings on paper yet Mr. Donovan and his team of designers managed to do the impossible - the flag prototypes were assembled in just a few hours. Graphic artists and silk screeners Jean Desrosiers and John Williams were called in to work on the Friday evening and since no seamstress could be found, the flags were stitched together by the young Joan O’Malley, daughter of Ken Donovan. After a great deal of work, the National Flag of Canada was proclaimed by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on January 28, 1965 and raised for the first time in an inauguration ceremony on Parliament Hill on February 15, 1965. 3. Who played a critical role in the creation and selection of the Flag?

A、Alan Beddoe.

B、Sir Eugene Fiset.

C、John Matheson.

D、Jacques St-Cyr.

The English sentences given below are ungrammatical. You are required to give the syntactic explanation to the ungrammaticality in each of the sentences.（南开大学2011研)

* Jack put his ball.

听力原文： The terrible destruction of the World Trade Center, on September 11th 2001, has united the States in a way that they have not known for many years. It has also united most of the world. We will never forget what happened on that day of tenor.

Two planes, carrying passengers and crew, were hijacked by terrorists and flown into the two towers of the World Trade Center, which later collapsed.

Two other planes were also hijacked. One was thrown against the Pentagon; in the other, heroic passengers fought the terrorists, making the plane crash in a forest in Pennsylvania That resistance probably saved hundreds of lives.

In all, over 5 000 people--from over 60 different countries--died in New York or in Washington: among them there were over 200 people from the emergency services, the police and the New York Fire Department.

While frightened workers poured downstairs to escape from the two burning towers, emergency workers were going upstairs, climbing towards the death and destruction above them; they were climbing to their own deaths. Others remained below, to receive the casualties as they were brought down. They too died when the 104 stories of the massive buildings above them collapsed in a fury of dust and smoke and masonry.

"They were the bravest men I've ever seen," said a man who escaped from the towering inferno of the world Trade Center.

All over the USA, people offered their blood to help the injured; but in fact there was not a lot of need for blood. When the massive buildings collapsed, most people died instantly. Only a few injured people were brought out from the debris.

The disaster united Americans in grief, because almost every American felt personally attacked. The fanatical murderers who planned this attack, and carried it out, thought that they would make America weaker; in fact, they have made it stronger. Almost the whole world has been united in horror and sympathy.

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A．2

B．3

C．4

D．5

The silence of the forest was more oppressive than the heat, and at this hour of the day there was not even the whine of insects. Only when Jack himself roused a gaudy bird from a primitive nest of sticks was the silence shattered and echoes set ringing by a harsh cry that seemed to come out of the abyss of ages. Jack himself shrank at this cry with a hiss of indrawn breath, and for a minute became less a hunter than a furtive thing, ape-like among the tangle of trees. Then the trail, the frustration , claimed him again and he searched the ground avidly. By the trunk of a vast tree that grew pale flowers on its grey bark he checked, closed his eyes, and once more drew in the warm air; and this time his breath came short, there was even a passing pallor in his face, and then the surge of bolls again. He passed like a shadow under the darkness of the tree and crouched, looking down at the trodden ground at his; feet. Questions:

This excerpt is from lard of the Flies (1954). Who is the author? Make a brief introduction to the novel.