2016年上半年中小学教师资格考试真题试卷英语学科知识与教学能力（高级中学）（满分150分）、单项选择题（本大题共30小题，每小题2分，共60分）在每小题列出的四个备选项中选择一个最佳答案。1. Excellent novels are those which _ national and cultural barriers.A. transcendB. traverseC. suppressD. surpass2. As Alice believed him to be a man of integrity, she refused to consider the possibility that his statement wasA. irrelevantB. facetiousC. fictitiousD. illogical3. The girls are afraid that being friendly to strangers could be misinterpreted by theirneighbours.A. ever-presentB. ever-presentedC. ever-presentingD. ever-presently4. His presentation will show you _ can be used in other contexts.A. that you have observedB. that how you have observedC. how that you have observedD. how what you have observed5. Many students start each term with an award check, but by the time books are bought, food is paid for, and a bit of social life , it looks rather emaciated.A. livesB. livedC. was livedD. has lived6. Which of the following is correct in its use of punctuation?A. The teacher asked, “Who said, Give me liberty or give me death?”B. The teacher asked, “Who said, Give me liberty or give me death?”C. The teacher asked, “Who said Give me liberty or give me death”?D. The teacher asked, “Who said Give me liberty or give me death?”7. The pair of English phonemes _ differ in the place of articulation.A. / and /B. / and /C. /d/ and /z/D. /m/ and /n/8. There are consonant clusters in the sentence “Brian, I appreciate beautiful scarf you brought me.”A. twoB. threeC. fourD. five9. When saying “Its noisy outside” to get someone to close the window, the speaker intends to perform a(n) .A. direct speech actB. locutionary actC. indirect speech actD. perlocutionary act10. That a Japanese child adopted at birth by an American couple will grow up speaking English indicates of human language.A. dualityB. cultural transmissionC. arbitrarinessD. cognitive creativity11. Fluent and appropriate language use requires knowledge of and this suggeststhat we should teach lexical chunks rather than single words.A. denotationB. connotationC. morphologyD. collocation12. “Underlining all the past form verbs in the dialogue” is a typical exercise focusing on .A. useB.formC. meaningD. function13. Which of the following activities may be more appropriate to help students practice a new structure immediately after presentation in class?A. Role play.B. Group discussion. C. Pattern drill.D. Written homework.14. When teaching students how to give appropriate responses to a congratulation or an apology, the teacher is probably teaching at .A. lexical levelB. sentence levelC. grammatical levelD. discourse level15. Which of the following activities can help develop the skill of listening for gist?A. Listen and find out where Jim lives.B. Listen and decide on the best title for the passage.C. Listen and underline the words the speaker stresses.D. Listen to pairs of words and tell if they are the same.16. When an EFL teacher asks his student “How do you know that the author liked the place since he did not tell us explicitly?”, he/she is helping students to reach comprehension.A. literalB. appreciativeC. inferentialD. evaluative17. Which of the following types of questions are mostly used for checking literal comprehension of the text?A. Display questions.B. Rhetorical questions.C. Evaluation questions.D. Referential questions.18. Which of the following is a typical feature of informal writing?A. A well-organized structure is preferred.B. Short and incomplete sentences are common.C. Technical terms and definitions are required.D. A wide range of vocabulary and structural patterns are used.19. Peer-editing during class is an important step of the approach to teaching writing.A. genre-basedB. content-basedC. process-orientedD. product-oriented20. Portfolios, daily reports and speech delivering are typical means of .A. norm-referenced testB. criterion-referenced testC. summative assessmentD. formative assessment请阅读 Passage l,完成第 2125小题。Passage l . When the Viaduct de Millau opened in the south of France in 2004, this tallest bridge in the world won worldwide accolades. German newspapers described how it “floated above the clouds” with “elegance and lightness” and “breathtaking” beauty. In France, papers praised the “immense” “concrete giant.” Was it mere coincidence that the Germans saw beauty where the French saw heft and power? Lera Borodisky thinks not. In a series of clever experiments guided by pointed questions, Boroditsky is amassing evidence that, yes, language shapes thought. The effect is powerful enough, she says, that “the private mental lives of speakers of different languages may differ dramatically,” not only when they are thinking in order to speak, “but in all manner of cognitive tas