专八人文知识(练习题)

英美文学知识练习1．Beowulf is considered as the greatest epic in ________.A.Anglo-Saxon timesB.The Roman OccupationC.The Middle AgesD.The renaissance2. _______ is considered as “the Father of English Poetry”.A. Geoffrey ChaucerB. William ShakespeareC. John MiltonD. Edmund Spenser3. Which of the following is Not an author of the English Renaissance?A. Sir Thomas MoreB. Christopher MarloweC. Francis BaconD. Geoffrey Chaucer4. Which of the following is Not considered as one of Shakespeare’s four greatest tragedies?A. HamletB. Romeo and JulietC. King LearD. Macbeth5. Portia is the famous character in Shakespeare’s play_______.A. HamletB. Merchant of VeniceC. The TempestD. Othello 6．John Milton’s works included all the following except_________.A. Paradise LostB. Paradise RegainedC. Samson AgonistesD. The Pilgrim’s Progress7. During 1711-1712 Richard Steelecollaborated with ____ in publishing the daily paper The Spectator.A. Joseph AddisonB. Alexander PopeC. Samuel JohnsonD. John Dryden8. Which of the following is notconsidered as a so-called sentimentalistof 18th century?A. Thomas GrayB. John KeatsC. Oliver GoldsmithD. Laurence Sterne9. _____ is considered as the firstEnglish psycho-analytical novel.A. Pamela by Samuel RichardsonB. The Vicar of Wakefield by OliverGoldsmithC. Daniel Defoe’s Robinson CrusoeD. Jonathon Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels10. Which of the following is not a novelby Henry Fielding?A. Jonathan WildB. Tom JonesC. Joseph AndrewsD. Don Quixote11. ‘To be or not to be, that is a question’is a famous line from the soliloquy of __________.A. HamletB. King LearC. MacbethD. Shylock12. Songs of Innocence is a collection oflyric poems composed by __________.A. Robert FrostB. Mrs. BrowningC. William BlakeD. Charles Swinburne13. The poem Auld Lang Syne, now theuniversal parting-song of the English-speaking peoples, was occupied by _________.A. Alfred TennysonB. William BlakeC. William WordsworthD. Robert Burns14. The preface to the “Lyrical Ballads”served as the manifesto of the English ________ Movement in poetry.A. RomanticB. ClassicC. RealisticD. Modernistic15. The following poets except _____ haveoften been mentioned as the “Lake Poets”.A. William WordsworthB. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeC. Robert SoutheyD. Percy Bysshe Shelley16. Don Juan is the masterpiece of_________.A. Percy Bysshe ShelleyB. George Gordon ByronC. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD. John Milton17. “If winter comes, can Spring be farbehind?” is a world-famous line from “Ode to the West Wind” composed by _________.A. George Gordon ByronB. Percy Bysshe ShelleyC. John KeatsD. Emily Dickinson18. “Beauty is truth, truth is beauty”is afamous line from “Ode on a Grecian Urn” by_________.A. George Gordon ByronB. Percy Bysshe ShelleyC. John KeatsD. William Wordsworth19. 《萨克逊劫后英雄略》is a Chinesetranslation of the English novel ______.A. Walter Scott’s IvanhoeB. Daniel Defoe’s Robinson, CrusoeC. Jonathon Swift’s Gulliver’s TravelsD. Charles Di ckens’s The PickwickPapers20. Which of the following novels is notwritten by Charles Dickens?A. A Tale of Two CitiesB. Oliver TwistC. David CopperfieldD. Rob Roy21．Vanity Fair is the great masterpiece of ___________.A. Charles DickensB. Elizabeth Cleghorn GaskellC. William Makepeace ThackerayD. George Eliot22. Which of the following novels is notwritten by Jane Austin?A. Sense and SensibilityB. Pride and PrejudiceC. Mansfield ParkD. The Mill on the Floss23. Wuthering Heights is the masterpieceof the English woman writer_________.A. Charlotte Bront.B. Emily BrontC. Anne BrontD. George Eliot24. The Seven Lamps of Architecture isone of the major works concerning art criticism written by the famous prose-writer of Victorian England _____.A. Matthew ArnoldB. Thomas CarlyleC. John RuskinD. Thomas Babington Macaulay25. School for Scandal is the masterpieceof the most important 18th century English dramatist_______.A. Richard Brinsley SheridanB. Charles LambC. William ShakespeareD. Oscar Wilde26. Treasure Island is a romance writtenby_________.A. Rudyard KiplingB. Robert Louis StevensonC. Joseph ConradD. Herbert George Wells27. William Butler Yeats is a well-knownIrish _________.A. NovelistB. PoetC. PlaywrightD. Essayist28. “Art for Art’s sake” is a theoryadvanced by _____.A. Henry JamesB. Oscar WildC. Samuel ButlerD. George Mereditn29. Thomas Hardy wrote the followingnovels except_________.A. Tess of the D’UrbervillesB. Jude the ObscureC. Far from the Madding CrowdD. The Way of All Flesh30. The Forsyte Saga, the first triology ofthe 20th century English critical realist John Galsworthy, consists of the following except________.A. The Man of PropertyB. In ChanceryC. To LetD. The White Monkey31. Which of the following plays is notwritten by Bernard Shaw?A. Major BarbaraB. Mrs. Warren’s ProfessionC. The Silver BoxD. Heartbreak House32. The Waste Land is the masterpiece of the poet_______.A.Thomas Stearns EliotB.Hilda DoolittleC.William Butler YeatsD.Walt Whitman33. The founder of the ‘Stream of consciousness’school of novel writing James Joyce’s major works contains the following except_____-.A.UlyssesB.Finnegans WakeC.Mrs DallowayD.Four Quartets34. Lady Chatterley’s Lover is a famous novel written by _______.A.David Herbert LawrenceB.Virginia WoolfC.William Somerset MaughamD.Katherine Mansfield35. Thomas Paine was one of these political pamphleteers and the mostpersuasive rhetorician for the cause of independence. He wrote the following woks except______.mon SenseB.The Rights of ManC.The Age of ReasonD.Poor Richard’s Almanac36. The Song of Hiawatha, the first American epic in Blank verse about the American Indians is composed by _____.A.William Cullen BryantB.Henry Wadsworth LongfellowC.William WordsworthD.Washington Irving37. The author of The Leatherstocking Tales is ______.A.James Fenimore CooperB.Edgar Allan PoeC.Jack LondonD.Nathaniel Hawthorne38. Rip Van Winkle and the The Legend of Sleepy Hollow are the most outstanding ofthe stories that _____ wrote.A.Washington IrvingB.James Fenimore Cooperwrence SterneD.Oliver Goldsmith39. Nature,which has been called “the manifesto of American transcendentalism”was written by ____.A.Thomas PaineB.Henry David ThoreauC.Nathaniel HawthorneD.Ralph Waldo Emerson40. Walden; or, Life in the Woods is a recording of life and meditation of ___ when living alone in Walden Pond.A.Ralph Waldo EmersonB.Nathaniel HawthorneC. Henry David ThoreauD. William Wordsworth41. Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque was written by___, who has been regarded as the father of modern short story.A.Henry David ThoreauB.Nathaniel HawthorneC.Edgar Allan PoeD.Washington Irving42. Leaves of Grass, which ran nine editions with more than 400 poems all written in fee verse form, is the great masterpiece of ____.A.Henry Wadsworth LongfellowB.Walt WhitmanC.William Butler YeatsD.Emily Elizabeth Dickinson44. The most important book written by Herman Melville is ____.A.TypeeB.Moby DickC.PierreD.The Prairies45. Known as O. Henry, ___ was one of the most prolific modern American short story writers and wrote about 300 short stories, including the famous “The Copand the Anthem”, The Four Million, and so on.A. William Sidney PorterB. Katherine Anne PorterC. William Dean HowellsD. Sherwood Anderson46. ______ has been called the first of the “Modern psychological novelists,”and “a realist of the inner life”. And he wrote such great novels as The Ambassadors, The Turn of the Screw, The Wings of the Dove, The Golden Bowl, and The Portrait of a Lady.A. Earnest HemingwayB. William Guthbert FaulknerC. William JamesD. Henry James47. Mark Twain is the penname of ______.A. Samuel Langhorne ClemensB. William Sidney PorterC. Sherwood AndersonD. Sarah Orne Jewtt48.Which of the following is not written by Mark Twain?A. Innocents AbroadB. The Gilded AgeC. Tom SawyerD. The American49. The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Sketches is the best collection of tales written by ______.A. HemingwayB. Hanmlin GarlandC. Francis Bret HarteD. Harriet Beecher Stowe50. Uncle Tom’s Cabin is a great masterpiece written by which of the following women writers___?A. Kate ChopinB. Mary E. Wilkings FreemC. Alice BrownD. Harriet Beecher Sowe51. The most famous book written by Stephen Crane about the American CivilWar is ____.A. The Red Badge of CourageB. Maggie, A Girl of the StreetsC. George’s MotherD. The Third Violet52. “The Trilogy of Desire”by Theodors Dreiser includes the following except___.A. The FinancierB. The StoicC. The TitanD. Sister Carrie53. The trilogy “Epic of the Wheat”written by Frank Norris includes the following but________.A. The OctopusB. The PitC. The WolfD. Mcteague54. Jack London wrote the following works except ___.A. The People of the AbyssB. The Sea WolfC. The American TragedyD. Martin Eden55. Cathay, a collection of translation of Chinese poems, was done by the American poet_______.A. Ezra PondB. Emily DickinsonC. Wallace StevensD.E.R. Robinson56. Which of the following is not a work of T. S. Eliot?A. The Waste LandB. The Love Song of J.Alfred PrufrockC. Murder in the CathedralD. Don Juan57. Which of the following is not a representative of the so-called Chicago poets in the 1920s and 1930s America? A. Vachel LindsayB．Edgar Lee MastersC. Carl SandburgD. Kenneth Koch58. In the later 1950s and the whole 1960s Beat Poet ______ made his voice heard asthe poet laureate of the Beat Generation.A. Allan GinsbergB. Robert Penn WarrenC. Robert LowellD. Charles Olson59. Earnest Hemingway, generally regarded as spokesman for the Lost Generation, wrote the following novels except____.A. The Sun Also RisesB. A Farewell to ArmsC. The old man and the sea.D. This Side of Paradise60. Francis Scott Fitzgerald, known as the “Roaring 20s”, and “Jazz Age”, wrote the following but____.A. For whom the Bell TollsB. The Beautiful and DamnedC. The Great GatsbyD. Tender Is the Night61. ____, the first American writer to receive the Nobel Prize for literature, is theauthor of Babbit and Main Street.A. Earnest HemingwayB. Sinclair LewisC. John SteinbeckD. Gertrude Stein62. ____ is usually considered as the masterpiece of John Steinbeck.A. The Grapes of WrathB. The PearlC. East of EdenD. Moon is Down63. The Catcher in the Rye is the first and only novel written by_____.A. Truman CapoteB. Jerome David SalingerC. James ThurberD. John Updike64. The Female Man, a significant feministic achievement in literature, was written by woman writer____.A. Joyce Carol OatesB. Katherine Anne PoeterC. Joanna RussD. Alice Walker65. ____ is the first important Jewish American novelist to begin publishing in the mid—1940s, and he received the 1976 Nobel Prize for Literatue.A. Saul BellowB. Issac Bashevis SingerC. Bernard MalamudD. Philip Roth66. _____ is the author of the novel Native Son.A. James BaldwinB. Richard WrightC. Langston HughesD. Toni Morrison67. Invisible Man is the masterpiece of the famous black writer__.A. Ralph EllisonB. Langston HughesC. Richard WrightD. James Baldwin68. William Guthbert Gaulkner, the foremost southern writer of the 20th century, were the following stories except___.A. The Sound and FuryB. The Apple CartC. Absalom, Absalom!D. Go Down, Moses69. The Greatest American dramatist of the first half of the 20th century ____ wrote such great works as the Iceman Cometh, Long Day’s Journey into Night.A. Eugene O’NeillB. Maxwell AndersonC. Tennessee WilliamsD. Edward Albee70. Death of a Salesman is the masterpiece of playwright_____.A. Arthur MillerB. Eugene O’NeillC. Tennessee WilliamsD. Sam Shepard。

专业英语八级人文知识1. All of the Great Lakes are shared between the United States and Canada EXCEPT (C)A. Lake OntarioB. Lake SuperiorC. Lake MichiganD. Lake Erie2. Which group of people can Not vote in the British general election? (B)A. member in the House of CommonsB. Lords in the House of LordsC. the UK citizens above the age of 18D. the UK resident citizens of the Irish Republic3. Walt Whitman helped to promote the development of (D)A. sonnetB. coupletC. blank verseD. free verse4. Speech is the primary medium of language.5. The first English colony in America established in Jamestown.6. In the 1960s, the Beatles became world famous and turned their hometown of Liverpool into a place of pilgrimage.7. The Angles and Saxons are the ancestors of the English people today.8. Prometheus Unbound was written by Shelly.9. Walt Whitman’s O Captain! My Captain! was written in memorial of Lincoln.10. Saussure puts forward the distinction between diachronic studies and synchronic studies.11. The majority of back-formed words are verbs.12. Illocutionary act is the act performed in saying something; it is an expression of the speaker’s intention.13. Washington D.C, capital of the United States, is named after George Washington and Christopher Columbus.14. English didn’t became the official; language of the English until 14th after the Hundred Years’ War.15. Martin Eden is Jack London’s masterpiece and it is somewhat autobiog raphical.16. The Input Hypothesis was put forward by Krashen.17. A series of dynastic civil wars between supporters of the House of Lancaster and the House of York in the 15th century are also known as the wars of the Roses.18. The oldest newspaper in Australia is The Sydney Morning Herald.19. The Gift of the Magi was written by O’ Henry.20. Nouns’ verbs and adjectives can be classified as open class words.21. Which of the following sports originated from Scotland? (A)A GolfB FootballC BasketballD Tennis22. The Second largest racial and ethnic group in the United Stated is (B)A the whiteB the HispanicsC ChineseD the Blacls23. Martin Luther King, Jr. who delivered a famous speech named I HAVE A DREAM was the leader of Civil Rights Movement in USA.24. Which of the following is the largest province in Canada? (A)A QuebecB SaskatchewanC OntarioD British Columbia25. Robert Louis Stevenson is a representative of Neo-Romanticism in English literature.26. Both of phonology and phonetics are concerned with the study of speech sounds.27. Male/female, married/single and alive/dead are examples of complementarity.28. The Sapir-Worf hypothesis is about language and thought.29. The symbol marking the declination of the British Empire is THE SUEZ CANAL CRISIS.30. The colonists first settled in South Australia in Australia.31.In the 20th century, under the influence of Freud’s theory of psycho-analysis, a number of writers adopted the stream of consciousness method of novel writing.32. Componential analysis refers to an approach adopted by structural semanticists in describing the meaning of words and phrases.33. Second Language Acquisition concentrates on code.34. The components of the British Parliament: the House of Lord, the House of Commons and the Queen/King.35. Quebec is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population.36. The Australian National Day is chosen to commemorate the first European settlement of the continent.37. The Catcher in the Rye was written by Jerome David Salinger.38. Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s The School for Scandal has been called a great comedy of manners.39. The type of language which is selected as appropriate to a type of situation is a register.40. Quantity Maxim means that in conversation we should be as informative as required.41. Canada is the second largest country in the word.42. George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four is considered as an anti-utopian novel.43. Toni Morrison is the first American black woman writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature.1.The Old Man and the Sea is one of the great works by ____A Jack LondonB Charles DickensC Samuel ColeridgeD Ernest Hemingway2.In which novel can "Yahoo" be found?A John Bunyan's Pilgrim's ProgressB Edmund Spencer's The Faerie QueenC Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's TravelsD Henry Fielding's Tom Jones3.The Catcher in the Rye is written by ____A J.D. SalingerB Jack LondonC Flannery O'ConnorD Saul Bellow4.The image of the famous "henpecked husband" is created by____A Washington IrvingB Fennimore CooperC Edith WhartonD William Dean Howells5.The literary spokesman of the Jazz is often thought to be ____A O'NeilB PoundC Robert Frost DScott Fitzgerald6.____ is the most important person of the transcendental club.A HawthornB WhitmanC EmersonD Hemingway7. The main theme of Emily Dickinson is the following except____A fridendshipB love and marriageC life and deathD war and peace8.Robert Frost is a famous ____A novelistB playwrightC poetD literary critic9.Dover Beach is written by ____A Robert BrowningB Alfred TennysonC Mathew ArnoldD Dylan Thomas10.The period from 1865-1914 has been referred to as the ____ in the literary history of the United States.A Age of RealismB Age of ClasicalismC Age of RomanticismD Age of Renaissance答案详解：1.D 《老人与海》是海明威的作品。

英语专八人文知识习题与答案英语专八人文知识习题与答案__1__ The study of __ is Syntax. A、textual organizationB、sentence structuresC、word formationD、 language functions__2__ Which of the following is NOT a distinctive feature of human language?A、arbitrarinessB、productivityC、cultural transmission D finiteness__3__ The speech act theory was first put forward by__.A、John ScarlB、Johan AustinC、Noarn ChomskyD、M.A.K Halliday__4__ The capital city of Canada is __.A、MontrealB、OttawaC、VancouverD、York__5__ U.S. presidents normally serve a (an) __ term.A、eight-yearB、four-yearC、six-yearD、two year__6__ Which of the following cities is NOT located in the Northeast, U.S.A、HustonB、BaltimoreC、PhiladelphiaD、Boston__7__The state church in England is __.A、The BaptistB、The Roman CatholicC、The Protestant ChurchD、The Church of England__8__ The novel Emma is written by__.A、Jane AustenB、Elizabeth GaskellC、Charlotte BronteD、Mary Shelley__9__ Which of the following is not a Romantic Poet?A、William WordsworthB、Percy B. ShelleyC、George G. ByronD、George Eliot__10__ William Sidney Porter, known as O.Henry, is most famous for __.A、his poemB、his playsC、His novelsD、his short stories答案: 1-5 BDBBB 6-10 ADADD1. 选B。

Test 11.In Britain, where does the Changing of the Guard take place?a)Buckingham Palace.b)Downing Street.c)Victoria and Albert Museum.d)The Tower of London.2.What is a double-decker?a) A bus.b) A chocolate bar.c) A taxi. d) A two-storey building.3.Of all the symbols, ________, which are considered to representfertility and new life, are those most frequently associated with Easter.a)the pumpkin and the turkeyb)the lamb and the beefc)the spring peas and the potatoesd)the egg and the rabbit4.The first landing by Europeans in Australia was in 1606, butwhat is their nationality?a) Dutch. b) French.c) Spanish. d) British.5.Middle English was used by the poet _______.a) Hardy b) Chaucerc) Shakespeare d) Milton6.“A Tale of Two Cities” w as written by ______.a) William Shakespeare b) Goeffrey Chaucerc) Charles Dickens d) Thomas Jefferson7.Emily Dickinson wrote many short poems on various aspects oflife. Which of the following is NOT a usual subject of her poetic expression?a) Religion and immortality. b) Life and Death.c) Love and marriage. d) War and peace.8.What three components, generally, make up a system of atypical language?a)Phonology, syntax, semantics.b)Semiosis, syntax, frames.c)Frames, semantics, utterances.d)Sign, sign, signs.9.Of the following word-formation processes, _______ is themost productive.a) clipping b) blendingc) initialism d) derivation10.“The pen is mightier than the sword.” is an example of ______.a) metonymy b) transferred epithetc) oxymoron d) metaphorc) dialect d) narrativeTest 21.What is the affectionate name given to the clock tower of theHouses of Parliament, Westminster?a) Big Ben. b) Big Ken.c) Big Bill. d) Big Bob.2.Which of these sports did not originate in UK?a) Cricket. b) Snooker.c) Football (Soccer). d) Golf.3.Which town has been nicknamed ‘Tinseltown’ by theAmericans?a) New Orleans. b) Reno.c) Hollywood. d) Las Vegas.4.What is the other official language in Canada besides Englishand what is Canada’s capital?a) French. Ottawa. b) Spanish, Ottawa.c) Spanish, Toronto. d) French, Toronto.5.Which English poet wrote of Adam and Eve’s expulsion fromthe Garden of Eden in Paradise Lost?a) John Donne. b) John Milton.c) Sir Philip Sidney. d) Edmund Spenser.6._______ died of tuberculosis at the age of 26, but not beforeleaving an impressive body of poems, including “To Autumn”and “Ode on Melancholy”.a) John Keats b) Lord Byronc) Samuel Taylor Coleridge d) Percy Bysshe Shelley7.Walt Whitman was a pioneering figure of American poetry. Hisinnovation first of all lies in his use of ______, poetry without afixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.a) Blank verse b) Heroic coupletc) Free verse d) Iambic pentameter8.Of the following words, ______ is an initialism.a) VOA b) NATOc) BASIC d) UNESCO9.Which of the following words is NOT formed through clipping?a) Dorm. b) Motel.c) Gent. d) Zoo.10.A regional variety of a language that has variations inpronunciation, vocabulary or meaning is called _______.a) accent b) slangc) Morphology. d) Semantics.Test 31.The Channel Tunnel, linking the UK to the rest of Europe, runsbetween England and ______.a) France b) Germanyc) Belgium d) Netherlands2.What’s the name of the day set apa rt in USA for planting trees?a) Earth Day.b) Ann Arbor Day.c) Arbor Day. d) Green Day.3.What was the name of the ship that brought the Pilgrims to NewEngland in 1620?a) Golden Hinde. b) Sunflower.c) Mayflower. d) Titanic.4.What are the official colours of Australia?a) Red, White and Blue. b) Green and Gold.c) Green and Brown. d) Green and Red.5._______ is the first important governess novel in the Englishliterary history.a) Jane Eyre b) Emmac) Wuthering Heights d) Middlemarch6._______ was a pre-Romantic writer and is best known for hisScottish songs.a) Sir Walter Scott b) Robert Burnsc) Samuel Taylor Coleridge d) William Blake7.Mark Twain did NOT write _______.a)The Prince and the Pauperb)The Old Curiosity Shopc)Pudd’nhead W ilsond)Tom Sawyer8.Which of the following is NOT a dialect of English?a) Slang. b) Buffalo.c) American. d) Southern.9.Some words in the basic word stock are said to be stablebecause they ______.a)are complex wordsb)are technical wordsc)refer to the commonest things in lifed)denote the most important concepts10.W hat is defined as “the study of sentence structure”?a) Syntax.b) Phonology.c) “railroad”d) “taxi”Test 41.What colour is the British classified business telephonedirectory?a) Yellow. b) White.c) Blue. d) Pink.2.What does IMF stand for?a)International Monetary Foundation.b)International Monetary Fund.c)Internal Money Foundation.d)Internal Monetary Fund.3.What do Americans celebrate on 4th July?a) Thanksgiving Day. b) The Revolution.c) The Discovery of America. d) Independence Day.4.What is Canada’s national animal?a) Beaver. b) Moose.c) Bear. d) Husky.5.Which play by Shakespeare is not a tragedy?a) Titus Andronicus. b) Pericles, Prince of Tyre.c) Coriolanus. d) Timon of Athens.6.What is the book Lord of the Flies about?a) A road trip around the USA.b) A swarm of killer flies.c)Schoolboys on a desert island.d)An expert pilot.7.Nathaniel Hawthorne did NOT write _______.a) The Scarlet Letter b) Twice Told Talesc) The Blithedale Romance d) Vanity Fair8.Morphology is _______.a)how a word’s meaning evolves over timeb)the way a language builds words by putting small,meaningful units togetherc)how a word’s spelling evolves over timed)in what order words are put in a sentence9.Which of the following words can be described as containing anaffricate?a) Pill. b) Huffle.c) Hammer. d) Budged.10.The word ______ is usually NOT used by British people.a) “tube”b) “pub”Test 51.In the United Kingdom, ministers are appointed by the Queenon the recommendation of ______.a) the Speaker b) the Lord Chancellorc) the Duke of Edinburgh d) the Prime Minister2.Who was the first person to walk on the moon?a) John Glenn. b) Clint Eastwood.c) Neil Armstrong. d) Yuri Gagarin.3.How many states are there in the US?a) 49. b) 50. c) 51.d) 52.4.What is the title of Canada’s national anthem?a) True Patriot Love. b) God Save the Queen.c) Canada My Country. d) O Canada.5.Who wrote “Where ignorance is bliss, it is folly to be wise”?a) Browning. b) Marx.c) Shakespeare. d) Kipling.6._______ is the author of “To a Skylark”.a) Mary Lamb b) John Keatsc) Percy Bysshe Shelley d) Lord Byron7.Henry David Thoreau’s work, ________, has always beenregarded as a masterpiece of New England Transcendentalism.a) Walden b) The pioneersc) Nature d) Song of Myself8.What is etymology?a)The history of a word.b)The various ways in which a word can be pronounced.c)The study of unwritten languages.d)The study of dead languages.9.________ are bound morphemes because they cannot be used asseparate words.a) Roots. b) Stems.c) Affixes.d) Compounds.10.W hat is the dominant accent in the United States?a) Midwest. b) General American.c) Southern. d) Canadian.Test 61.The vegetable, leek, is the emblem for which part of the UK?a) Wales. b) Northern Ireland.c) Scotland. d) England.2.John Lennon is a member of the band of ______ in the 1960s.a) The Beatles b) The Policec) The Rolling Stones d) The Eagles3.What is the title of the United States of America’s nationalanthem?a) America the Beautiful. b) We Are The Champions.c) God Bless America. d) The Star Spangled Banner.4.How many territories are there in Canada?a) 4.b) 2. c) 3. d) 1.5.In Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift describes the island ofthe Houyhnhnms as the world’s most perfect society. What kind of animals are the Houyhnhnms?a) Monkeys. b) Fish.c) Dogs. d) Horses.6.In which cent ury were Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Taleswritten?a) Fourteenth. b) fifteenth.c) Sixteenth. d) Seventeenth.7.With Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the literaryscene, _______ became the major trend in American literature in the seventies and eighties of the 19th century.a) sentimentalism b) romanticismc) realism d) naturalism8.To which of these language groups does English belong?a) Romance.b) Germanic.c) Slavonic. d) Baltic.9.“Present” and “absent” form a pair of _______.a) conversives b) gradable antonymsc) complementary antonyms d) marked antonyms10.T he morpheme is the smallest syntactical unit. How manymorphemes does the word “antidisestablishmentarianism” have?a) 1. b) 5. c) 7.d) 6.Test 71.What is the name of the famous stadium in the north of London?a) Wembley. b) Westminster.c) Wimbledon. d) Webster.2.What would you do with a “toad-in-the-hole”?a) Let it out. b) Sing it.c) Eat it. d) Play it.3.Martin Luther King Jr., a young black clergyman, became anational leader of the _______ Movement.a) Boycott b) Civil Rightsc) Segregation d) Integration4.The majority of French-speaking Canadians live in _______.a) New Brunswick b) Ontarioc) Quebec d) Nova Scotia5.Sir Thom as More coined the word “Utopia”. What does theword mean in Greek?a) Nowhere land. b) God’s blessings.c) Kingdom in the sky. d) Free from all sorrow.6.Where did Aldous Huxley get the title for Brave New World,which presents a chilling vision of a supposedly ideal society?a)The Bible’s Book of Psalms.b)Shakespeare’s “The Tempest”.c)Homer’s “Odyssey”.d)Christopher Columbus’ journals.7.The Hemingway Code heroes are best remembered for their________.a) indestructible spirit b) pessimistic view of lifec) war experiences d) masculinity8.Which of the following does affect the register that we speakin?a) Conversational partner. b) Context.c) Social status. d) Gender.9.What is the smallest segment of sound that comprises the basicbuilding blocks of a language?a) Morphemes.b) Teramemes.c) Metamemes. d) Phonemes.10.T he ambiguity in “Pass the port” is caused by _______.a) lexical items b) a grammatical structurec) homonymy d) polysemyTest 81.Which of these is the patron saint of Wales?a) St. Patrick. b) St. David.c) St. Andrew. d) St. George.2.Where is the official residence of the British prime Minister?a) Constitution Hill. b) Downing Street.c) Whitehall Place. d) The Strand.3.Which American president freed the slaves?a) Thomas Jefferson. b) George Washington.c) Abraham Lincoln. d) Bill Clinton.4.Who said: “We hold these truths to be self-evident that all menare created equal”?a) Bill Clinton. b) George Washington.c) Richard Nixon. d) Thomas Jefferson.5.W ho was the author of the famous storybook Alice’s Adventuresin Wonderland?a) Rudyard Kipling. b) John Keatsc) Lewis Carroll. d) H.G. Wells.6.Sonnets from the ______ is regarded as Elizabeth BarrettBrowing’s best work.a) Spanish b) Portuguesec) French d) Italian7.Chinese poetry and philosophy have exerted great influenceover _______.a) Ezra Pound b) Ralph Waldo Emersonc) Robert Frost d) Emily Dickinson8.The dictionary of a language can be called ________.a) pragmatics b) semanticsc) lexicon d) grammar9.Which of the following is NOT associated with “Parentese”(how an adult talks to a child)?a) Yes or no questions. b) High pitch.c) Long sentences. d) Exaggerated intonation.10.T he group of words _______ make up a semantic field.a)“father, teacher, son, brother”b)“red, white, rose, milk”c)“sorrow, grief, anguish, regret”d)“socks, slippers, shoes, glass”Test 91.Which famous writer was born in Stratford-upon-Avon?a) Geoffrey Chaucer. b) Agatha Christie.c) William Shakespeare. d) Thomas Hardy.2.In which year was the independence from England declared?a) 1679. b) 1876. c) 1776. d) 1779.3.Which of these U.S.A. states has been frequently called “thearmpit of the Nation”?a) New Jersey. b) Washington.c) Maine. d) Montana.4.Which of the following is Canada’s national symbol?a) Sunflower. b) Maple leaf.c) Golden wattle. d) Rose.5.How many lines does a sonnet have?a) 10. b) 12. c) 14. d) They vary.6.________ is considered to be the best-known English dramatistsince Shakespeare, and his representative works are plays inspired by social criticism.a) Richard Sheridan b) Oliver Goldsmithc) Oscar Wilde d) Bernard Shaw7._______ is the title of the 1818 novel by Mary WollstonecraftShelley.a) Spiderman b) Draculac) Frankenstein d) The Mummy8.The four major modes of semantic changes are _______.a)Extension, narrowing, elevation and degradationb)Extension, generalization, elevation and degradationc)Extension, narrowing, specialization and degradationd)Extension, elevation, amelioration and degradation9._______ deals with the distinctive sounds that are combined tomake words.a) Lexicon b) Morphologyc) Phonology d) Semantics10.“Vacuum-clean” resulting from “vacuum-cleaner” is an exampleof ______.a) clipping b) reduplicationc) compounding d) back-formationTest 101.The Hundred Years’ War in the history was between Englandand _______.a) France b) Norwayc) Denmark d) Germany2.Which of the following countries was once called a big empire“on which the sun never sets”?a) America. b) Norway.c) Spain. d) Britain.3. A Parliament in Britain has a maximum duration of ________years.a) 2 b) 3 c) 4 d) 54.Which of the following is NOT a tragedy by Shakespeare?a) Romeo and Juliet. b) Hamlet.c) King Lear. d) The Taming of the Shrew.5.Who is generally regarded as the greatest writer in the Englishlanguage?a) Shakespeare. b) Hemingway.c) Chaucer. d) Mark Twain.6.Which of the following is a chronicle play by Shakespeare?a)Julius Caesar.b)The twelfth Night.c) A Midsummer Night’s Dream.d)As You Like it.7.______ is a branch of linguistics concerned with the sounds ofspeech, the way the sounds of particular languages change over time and the way the sounds of one language relate to those of another.a) Phonology b) Morphologyc) Syntax d) Semantics8.______ is the branch of linguistics which studies meaning inlanguage.a) Phonology b) Morphologyc) Syntax d) Semantics9.“Alive” and “dead” are _______ ant onyms.a) relational b) gradablec) symmetric d) complementary10._______ is the study of the production, transmission, andreception of speech sounds. a) Phonology b) Morphology c) Syntax d) PhoneticsTest 111.Which university is the oldest one in Britain?a) Oxford. b) Cambridge.c) Edinburgh. d) Glasgow.2.The Reuters is a famous news agency in _______.a) France b) Germanyc) America d) Britain3.The most typically English of sports is ________.a) soccer b) cricketc) horse racing d) golf4.“The Red badge of Courage” was written by _______.a) Jack London b) Stephen Cranec) Hamilin Garland d) S. Anderson5.Fitzgerald’s first novel was ________.a)The Beautiful and Damnedb)This Side of Paradisec)The Great Gatsbyd)Tender Is Night6.The theme of The Waste Land is _______.a) love b) spiritual quest for salvationc) death d) nature7.Wallace Stevens was a successful ________.a) poet b) essayistc) novelist d) critic8.Chinese is a(n) ________.a) isolating language b) agglutinativec) fusional d) incorporating9.______ validity refers to the extent to which the best adequatelycovers the syllabus area to be tested.a) content b) Constructc) Emprical d) Face10.S entence (a) “He married a blonde heiress.” _______ sentence(b) “He married a blonde.”a) presupposes b) implicatesc) entails d) negatesTest 121.The singing group the Beatles was formed in _________.a) the early 1960s b) the early 1970sc) the late 1960s d) the late 1970s2.The most popular sport in England is _______.a) soccer b) cricketc) rugby d) golf3._______ is the base where America originated.a) the Midwest b) the Southc) the Great Plains d) New England4.Napoleon sold the ______ Territory to the United States foronly 15 million dollars.a) Colorado b) Louisianac) New Mexico d) Texas5.________ introduced the technique of the stream ofconsciousness in his writing.a) Shakespeare b) James Joycec) Thomas Hardy d) William Faulkner6.Adgar Allan Poe was a _______.a) novelist and critic b) poet and criticc) novelist and poet d) playwright and novelist7.________ was called “inventor of detective stories”.a) Washington Irving b) Fennimore Cooperc) Adgar Allan Poe d) Nathaniel Hawthorne8._______ are of the complementary type of antonyms.a) Sell-buy b) Long-shortc) Good-bad d) Single-married9.Which is created by cutting the initial part of a word?a) Van. b) Prof.c) Bike. d) Telly.10.T he word “holiday” origina lly meant holy day, but now theword signifies any day on which we do not have to work. This is an example of ________.a) meaning shift b) widening of meaningc) narrowing of meaning d) loss of meaningTest 131._______ was the president of the United States during the GreatDepression.a) Thomas Jefferson b) John F. Kennedyc) Franklin Roosevelt d) Truman2.______ was involved in the Watergate Scandal.a) Nixon b) Rooseveltc) Truman d) Ford3.The Presidency Election is held every _______ years inAmerica.a) 2 b) 3 c) 4 d) 64.The Master’s colleges and universities in America offer_______ degrees.a) BA b) Master’sc) BA and Master’s d) doctoral5.“Scarlet Letter” is one of the greatest American novels. It iswritten by _______.a) Nathaniel Hawthorne b) Wallace Stevenc) Francis d) Willa Cather6.________ was the first to explore fully the possibility of freeverse in American history of literature.a) Ralph Waldo b) Stephen Cranec) Walt Whitman d) Robert Frost7.Mark Twain was well-known as a _______.a) critic b) humoristc) poet d) playwright8.Which is NOT a blending word?a) baby-sit. b) transistor.c) motel. d) smog.9.The thematic role which deliberately performs the actiondescribed by the verb is _______.a) instrument b) sourcec) agent d) theme10.W hich of the following languages does NOT belong to theGermanic branch of the Indo-European family?a) Italian. b) English.c) German. d) Dutch.Test 141.Which of the following American higher education institutiondoes NOT offer BA degree?a)Junior Colleges.b)Research universities.c)Doctoral universities.d)Master’s colleges and universities.2.Yale and Harvard Universities are funded by the followingEXCEPT ________.a)the tuition fees paid by the studentsb)the donations by corporations and religious organizationsc)individuals’ donationsd)the governments at all levels3.The unique contribution to architecture by Americans was the________ in the late 19th century.a) skyscraper b) expresswayc) bridges d) tall towers4.Theodore Dreiser was the representative of the _______.a) transcendentalists b) modernistsc) naturalists d) existentialists5.“The Waste Land” was written by ________.a) Thomas Stearns Eliot b) Walt Whitmanc) Emily Dickinson d) Robert Frost6.Which of the following American writers did NOT win a NobelPrize for Literature?a) Ernest Hemingway. b) T. S. Eliot.c) John Steinbeck. d) Richard Wright.7.The word “_______” does NOT have the semantic property of“cause”.a) darken b) killc) uglify d) touch8.______ is/are NOT included in Pragmatics.a) Speech acts b) Presuppositionsc) Dexis d) Pronunciation9.________ is defined as the study of language in use andlinguistic communication.a) Pragmatics b) Sociolinguisticsc) Neuroliguistics d) Contextual linguistics10._______ carry semantic content. a) Grammatical words b) Form words c) Lexical words d) FunctionsTest 151.Elvis Presley was the representative of _______ in Americanhistory.a) country music b) discoc) jazz d) rock’n’roll2.Thanksgiving Day is on the _______ Thursday in November.a) 1st b) 2nd c) 3rd d) 4th3.The National Day of the American people is on ________.a) June 4 b) July 4c) June 14 d) July 144.“invisible Man” probes the existential status of a ______.a) Jewish b) Negroc) White d) Hispanic5.Which of the following is a woman writer?a) Ralph Ellison. b) Saul Bellow.c) James Baldwin. d) Willa Cather.6.“Long Day’s Journey Into Night” was written by _______.a) Sherwood Anderson b) William Faulknerc) Eugene O’Neil d) Bernard Shaw7.Which of the following was NOT written by ErnestHemingway?a)The Sun Also Rises.b)For Whom the Bell Tolls.c)Tender is the Night.d) A Clean, Well-Lighted Place.8.Which of the following words are minimal pairs?a) beg, bag. b) my, fly.c) cat, slight. d) it, intelligent.9.“Man” and “men” are _______ allomorphs.a) replacive b) suppletivec) zero d) positional10.________ includes the study of linguistic variation, linguisticchange, and sociocultural factors that influence language use.a) Pragmatics b) Sociolinguisticsc) Neurolinguistics d) Contextual linguisticsTest 161.The longest city in Canada is ________.a) Toronto b) Montrealc) Vancouver d) Quebec City2.English is the language most commonly spoken throughoutCanada EXCEPT _______.a) Toronto b) Montrealc) Vancouver d) Quebec3.Today in Canada, services in almost all modern institutionswork in _______.a) English b) English and Frenchc) English and Spanish d) English and Dutch4.Fitzgerald usually dealt with the double theme of _______.a) hatred and love b) hatred and warc) love and money d) money and death5.The Sound and the Fury was written by _______.a) Sinclair Lewis b) Theodore Dreiserc) F. Scott d) William Faulkner6.Main Street is a masterpiece of _______.a) transcendentalism b) naturalismc) modernism d) provincialism7.“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” is a _______ poem.a) dramatic b) meditativec) satirical d) philosophical8._______ deals with the analysis and creation of words, idioms,and collocations.a) Morphology b) Lexiconc) Morphophonology d) Morphophonemics9.Which of the following is NOT a fricative?a) /f/. b) /v/. c) /s/. d) /tr/.10.A n artificial language used for trade between speakers ofdifferent languages is called a ________.a) pidgin b) lingua francac) creole s) slangKey AnswersTest 11.a2.a3.d4.a5.b6.c7.d8.a9.d 10.a Test 21.a2.b3.c4.a5.b6.a7.c8.a9.b 10.c Test 31.a2.c3.c4.b5.a6.b7.b8.a9.c 10.a Test 41.a2.b3.d4.a5.b6.c7.d8.b9.d 10.c Test 51.d2.c3.b4.d5.c6.c7.a8.a9.c 10.b Test 61.a2.a3.d4.c5.d6.a7.c8.b9.c 10.d Test 71.a2.c3.b4.c5.a6.b7.a8.d9.d 10.d Test 81.b2.b3.c4.d5.c6.b7.a8.c9.c 10.c Test 91.c2.c3.a4.b5.c6.d7.c8.a9.c 10.d Test 101.a2.d3.d4.d5.a6.a7.a8.d9.d 10.d Test 111.a2.d3.b4.b5.b6.b7.a8.a9.a 10.c Test 121.a2.a3.d4.b5.b6.a7.c8.d9.a 10.b Test 131.c2.a3.c4.c5.a6.c7.a8.a9.c 10.a Test 141.a2.d3.a4.b5.a6.d7.d8.d9.a 10.c Test 151.d2.d3.b4.b5.d6.c7.c8.a9.a 10.b Test 161.a2.d3.b4.c5.d6.b7.b8.b9.d 10.a。

专八人文知识（练习题+答案详解）专八人文知识（练习题+答案详解）专八人文知识练习（1）1. Morphology is a study of ___1___A. the internal structure of words and the rules that govern their formationB. the uses of different types of utterances in different contextsC. the differences between sounds used in human languages and sounds in natureD. the rules that pertain to all languages throughout the world2.Which of the following does NOT belong to “open class words”?___2___A. NounsB. AdjectivesC. ConjunctionsD. Adverbs3. What is the minimal unit of meaning?___3___A. PhonemeB. MorphemeC. AllophoneD. Allomorph4. Which of the following is NOT a free morpheme?___4___A. bedB. tressC. danceD. children5. Which of the following is NOT a compound word?___5___A. RainbowB. InactionC. Icy-coldD. Unpleasant6. ___6___ are bound morphemes because they can not be used as separate words.A. RootsB. StemsC. AffixesD. Compounds7.Syntax mainly deals with ___7___A. how a language changes through timeB. how words are combined to form sentences and the rules that govern the formation of sentences.C. how the human work when they use languageD. how a language varies through geographical space8.Syntactic categories contain the type of ___8___A. meaning that words expressB. affixes that the words takeC. structures in which the words can occurD. all of the above9.Which of the following is NOT the concern of a word category? ___9___A. A word category can be determined by meaning, inflection and distributionB. T o determine a word’s category by its meaning only is often not reliable.C. A word category can be embodied directly from its meaning.D. Distribution is more reliable than the meaning todetermine a word’s category.10. What elements does a phrase contain? ___10___A. Head, determine and complement.B. Head, specifier and complement.C. Head, specifier and complementizer.D. Head, determiner and complementizer.参考答案：ACBDD CBDCB专八人文知识练习（2）1. Where is Belfast?A. In Ireland.B. In WalesC. In Northern Ireland.D. In Scotland.2. The capital of New Zealand is_____A. Canberra.B. Ottawa.C. Wellington.D. Washington.3. Which of the following is NOT a U.K. newspaper?A. The Guardian.B. Christian Science Monitor.C. The Daily Telegraph.D. The Times.4. The community college is a kind of_____ college popular in_____ to satisfy the needs of both the individual and the society.A. five-year; U.K.B. four-year; U.K.C. three-year; U.S.D. two-year; U.S.5. James Joyce was a famous____ whose masterpiece Ulysseshas been highly eulogized in the Western literary world as one of the greatest works in the 20th century.A. Essayist.B. Novelist.C. Poet.D. Playwright.6. George Gordon Byron was famous for the following works except____A. Child Harold’s Pilgrimage.B. Queen Mab.C. Hours of Idleness.D. Don Juan.7. Which of the following is Nathaniel Hawthorne’s most noteworthy novel in the world?A. Gone with the Wind.B. For Whom the Bell Tolls.C. American Tragedy.D. The Scarlet Letter8.The study of the rules whereby words or other elements of sentence structure are combined to form grammatical sentences is______.A. syntaxB. semanticsC. morphologyD. sociolinguistics9.Words like “Xerox” and ”Kodak” a re formed by____A. back-formationB. blendingC. coinageD. acronym10.Which of the following is NOT an approach for English language to enrich its vocabulary in the past several centuries?A. BorrowingB. UpgradationC. NarrowingD. Widening参考答案：CCBDB BDACB专八人文知识练习（3）1 _____is the largest city and the chief port of the United States.A Washington D.C.B Los AngelesC San FranciscoD New Y ork City2 _____ enjoys the worst social and economic conditions.A BlacksB HispanicsC IndiansD Asian Americans3 Washington D.C. is named after___________.A the U.S. President George WashingtonB Christopher ColumbusC both George Washington and Christopher ColumbusD none of them4 American and British English are two_____ of the English language.A varietiesB elementsC partsD form5 The first American president to be elected from the Republican Party was______.A Thomas JeffersonB James MonroeC James MadisonD Abraham Lincoln6 Of the fifty states, the smallest state in area is_____.A Rhode IslandB VirginiaC TexasD Montana7 The national flag of the United States is known as_____.A the Star-Spangled BannerB Uncle SamC Hot DogD Union Jack8 The number of the Representatives from each American state depends on the _____.A contribution a state has made to the nationB populationC sizeD none of the above9 The tern “Father of Waters” is used to refer to _____.A the Amazon RiverB the Mississippi RiverC the Nile RiverD the Hudson River10 The statue of liberty was given to American people by_____ as a gift in 1884.A FranceB SpainC ItalyD Britain答案详解：1 D,纽约是美国最大的城市同时也是最重要的经济中心和最主要的港口。

专八人文知识(练习题)篇一：专八人文知识(练习题+答案详解)专八人文知识（练习题+答案详解）专八人文知识练习（1）1. Morphology is a study of ___1___A. the internal structure of words and the rules that govern their formationB. the uses of different types of utterances in different contextsC. the differences between sounds used in human languages and sounds in natureD. the rules that pertain to all languages throughout the world2.Which of the following does NOT belong to “open class words”?___2___A. NounsB. AdjectivesC. ConjunctionsD. Adverbs3. What is the minimal unit of meaning?___3___A. PhonemeB. MorphemeC. AllophoneD. Allomorph4. Which of the following is NOT a free morpheme?___4___A. bedB. tressC. danceD. children5. Which of the following is NOT a compound word?___5___A. RainbowB. InactionC. Icy-coldD. Unpleasant6. ___6___ are bound morphemes because they can not be usedas separate words.A. RootsB. StemsC. AffixesD. Compounds7.Syntax mainly deals with ___7___A. how a language changes through timeB. how words are combined to form sentences and the rules that govern the formation of sentences.C. how the human work when they use languageD. how a language varies through geographical space8.Syntactic categories contain the type of ___8___A. meaning that words expressB. affixes that the words takeC. structures in which the words can occurD. all of the above9.Which of the following is NOT the concern of a word category? ___9___A. A word category can be determined by meaning, inflection and distributionB. To determine a word’s category by its meaning only is often not reliable.C. A word category can be embodied directly from its meaning.D. Distribution is more reliable than the meaning to determine a word’s category.。

Test 11.In Britain, where does the Changing of the Guard take place?a)Buckingham Palace.b)Downing Street.c)Victoria and Albert Museum.d)The Tower of London.2.What is a double-decker?a) A bus.b) A chocolate bar.c) A taxi. d) A two-storey building.3.Of all the symbols, ________, which are considered to representfertility and new life, are those most frequently associated with Easter.a)the pumpkin and the turkeyb)the lamb and the beefc)the spring peas and the potatoesd)the egg and the rabbit4.The first landing by Europeans in Australia was in 1606, butwhat is their nationality?a) Dutch. b) French.c) Spanish. d) British.5.Middle English was used by the poet _______.a) Hardy b) Chaucerc) Shakespeare d) Milton6.“A Tale of Two Cities” wa s written by ______.a) William Shakespeare b) Goeffrey Chaucerc) Charles Dickens d) Thomas Jefferson7.Emily Dickinson wrote many short poems on various aspects oflife. Which of the following is NOT a usual subject of her poetic expression?a) Religion and immortality. b) Life and Death.c) Love and marriage. d) War and peace.8.What three components, generally, make up a system of atypical language?a)Phonology, syntax, semantics.b)Semiosis, syntax, frames.c)Frames, semantics, utterances.d)Sign, sign, signs.9.Of the following word-formation processes, _______ is themost productive.a) clipping b) blendingc) initialism d) derivation10.“The pen is mightier than the sword.” is an example of ______.a) metonymy b) transferred epithetc) oxymoron d) metaphorTest 21.What is the affectionate name given to the clock tower of theHouses of Parliament, Westminster?a) Big Ben. b) Big Ken.c) Big Bill. d) Big Bob.2.Which of these sports did not originate in UK?a) Cricket. b) Snooker.c) Football (Soccer). d) Golf.3.Which town has been nicknamed ‘Tinseltown’ by theAmericans?a) New Orleans. b) Reno.c) Hollywood. d) Las Vegas.4.What is the other official language in Canada besides Englishand what is Canada’s capital?a) French. Ottawa. b) Spanish, Ottawa.c) Spanish, Toronto. d) French, Toronto.5.Which English poet wrote of Adam and Eve’s expulsion fromthe Garden of Eden in Paradise Lost?a) John Donne. b) John Milton.c) Sir Philip Sidney. d) Edmund Spenser.6._______ died of tuberculosis at the age of 26, but not beforeleaving an impressive body of poems, including “To Autumn”and “Ode on Melancholy”.a) John Keats b) Lord Byronc) Samuel Taylor Coleridge d) Percy Bysshe Shelley7.Walt Whitman was a pioneering figure of American poetry. Hisinnovation first of all lies in his use of ______, poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.a) Blank verse b) Heroic coupletc) Free verse d) Iambic pentameter8.Of the following words, ______ is an initialism.a) VOA b) NATOc) BASIC d) UNESCO9.Which of the following words is NOT formed through clipping?a) Dorm. b) Motel.c) Gent. d) Zoo.10.A regional variety of a language that has variations inpronunciation, vocabulary or meaning is called _______.a) accent b) slangc) dialect d) narrativeTest 31.The Channel Tunnel, linking the UK to the rest of Europe, runsbetween England and ______.a) France b) Germanyc) Belgium d) Netherlands2.What’s the name of the day set apart in USA for planting trees?a) Earth Day.b) Ann Arbor Day.c) Arbor Day. d) Green Day.3.What was the name of the ship that brought the Pilgrims to NewEngland in 1620?a) Golden Hinde. b) Sunflower.c) Mayflower. d) Titanic.4.What are the official colours of Australia?a) Red, White and Blue. b) Green and Gold.c) Green and Brown. d) Green and Red.5._______ is the first important governess novel in the Englishliterary history.a) Jane Eyre b) Emmac) Wuthering Heights d) Middlemarch6._______ was a pre-Romantic writer and is best known for hisScottish songs.a) Sir Walter Scott b) Robert Burnsc) Samuel Taylor Coleridge d) William Blake7.Mark Twain did NOT write _______.a)The Prince and the Pauperb)The Old Curiosity Shopc)Pudd’nhead Wils ond)Tom Sawyer8.Which of the following is NOT a dialect of English?a) Slang. b) Buffalo.c) American. d) Southern.9.Some words in the basic word stock are said to be stablebecause they ______.a)are complex wordsb)are technical wordsc)refer to the commonest things in lifed)denote the most important concepts10.W hat is defined as “the study of sentence structure”?a) Syntax.b) Phonology.c) Morphology. d) Semantics.。

专业英语八级（人文知识）练习试卷2(题后含答案及解析)题型有： 3. GENERAL KNOWLEDGEPART III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (10 MIN)Directions: There are ten multiple-choice questions in this section. Choose the best answer to each question.1．On which of the following streets is the financial centre of the U．S．10cated?A．Fleet Street．B．Downing Street．C．Wall Street．D．Baker Street．正确答案：C解析：华尔街是美国纽约曼哈顿南部一条大街的名字，长不超过1英里，宽仅11米，是美国主要金融机构的所在地，被誉为“西方的金融中心”。

其他三条街都在英国。

Fleet Street(舰队街)是英国报纸业较为集中的一条街，也是英国新闻界的代称。

Downing Street(唐宁街)是英国首相官邸及一些政府主要部门在伦敦的所在地。

Baker Street(贝克街)是伦敦西区的一条繁华街道。

小说家柯南·道尔(Sir Arthur Conar Dogle)塑造的人物福尔摩斯和华生医生曾于1881年至1904年居住在该街221B号(作者虚拟未来的地址)。

知识模块：人文知识2．The jury in the High Court of New Zealand is composed of ______ members．A．18B．16C．14D．12正确答案：D解析：新西兰高等法院陪审团由12位成员组成。

知识模块：人文知识3．Education in the U．K．is compulsory”for all children aged betweenA．5 and 16．B．8 and 17．C．6 and 15．D．7 and 19．正确答案：A解析：英国5到16岁的学生必须接受义务教育。

专八人文知识(练习题)篇一：★英语专八人文知识题与答案英语专业八级人文知识试题(1)美国概况练习题：1. The traditional dividing line in America between “east” and “west” is_____.2. The earliest part in America to be found and taken over by early settlers is ____.3. The largest racial group in the whole population of U.S.A is____.4. Before 2000, the largest minority group in the United States is____.has the world’s oldest written constitution and political party.6. The economic problem caused by the depression in 1929 was eventually solved by____.years.institutions.9. The three main levels of courts of the federal judicial system in America are____________.10. _____ (which state ) is not governed by the common law.练习题答案及题解:1. The Mississippi River, 密西西比河是美国传统的东方和西方的分界线。

2. The Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain，最早被早期定居者发现和占领的地方是大西洋及其沿岸平原。

3. Non-Hispanics white，非西班牙裔的白人是美国最大的种族群体。

following is NOT Virginia Woolf’s novel ?
A. To the lighthouse B. Mrs. Dalloway C. The Waves D. Modern Painters 答案：D,《近代画家》是John Ruskin 的作品。 68. Pygmalion is a famous play written by____.
57.The success of Jane Eyre is partly due to its introduction to the English novel the first ___ heroine. A. explorer B. peasant C. Worker D. governess 答案：D。 governess指家庭教师。
60. The theme of A Tale of Two Cities is___. A. revolution B. war C. love D. brotherhood 答案：A，the two cities are London and Paris in the time of French of revolution. 61.Waiting for Godot is a ___. A. poem B. play C. short story D. novel 答案：B，该剧是爱尔兰剧作家Samuel Beckett. 62. Which of the following writers has once won the Nobel Prize? A. William Butler Yeats B. Tomas Hardy C. Wystan Hugh Auden. D. Dylan Thomas 答案：A，叶芝，爱尔兰作家，曾于1923年获得诺贝尔文学奖，获奖的理 由是“以其高度艺术化且洋溢着灵感的诗作表达了整个民族的灵魂”。 63. Mr. Darcy is a character in___. A. Tess of the D’Urbervilles B. Pride and Prejudice C. Happy Prince D. The Mill on the Floss 答案：B。

今日话题：辅音如何分类1. 发音部位（places of articulation）：双唇音(bilabial)、唇齿音(labiodental)、齿间音(dental)等；2.发音方法(manners of articulation)：、爆破音(stop)、摩擦音(fricatives)、破擦音(affricates)、鼻音(nasal)、边音(lateral)等；3.声带状态：清辅音、浊辅音。

因此更正第七期第十道10. English consonants can be classified into stops, fricatives, nasals, etc, in terms of ____A manner of articulationB openness of mouthC place of articulationD voicing选择A而不是C1. St. Lawrence and River Columbia are shared by both _b___A America and MexicoB America and CanadaC America and CubaD America and Brazil2. European settlement of Australia began in the late part of _c___ when a British penal colony wa s established on the east coast of the continent.A the 16th centuryB the 17th centuryC the 18th centuryD the 19th century3. Which sport is supposed to be America’s national sport and used to be call “American’s favorab le pastime”? aA baseballB basketballC rugbyD cricket4. The largest city in New Zealand is b____A AucklandB WellingtonC ChristchurchD Dunedin5. After Adam Bede,____wrote The Mill on the Floss and Silas Marner in which moral problems a rediscussed and psychological analysis of characters are emphasized.A George EliotB Jane AustinC George DickensD Charlotte Bronte6.All of the following odes are written by John Keats EXCEPT____A Ode to AutumnB Ode to a NightingaleC Ode to a SkylarkD Ode on Melancholy7. Of____’s four famous comedies, the best known is Lady W indermere’s Fan.A Oscar WildeB Richard SheridanC Bernard ShawD Somerset Maugham8. If the air stream meets with no obstruction when a sound is pronounced, it is a(n) __c__A voiced consonantB voiceless consonantC vowelD explosive9. The internationally accepted system of phonetic transcription is ____A I.P.AB I.A.P.SC I.S.SD S.S.I.P10. With the __d__, Latin words were added into the vocabulary of the language spoken in Britain.A invasion of the RomansB Christianization of BritainC Scandinavian invasionD Norman Conquest答案BCAAA CACAB9. 国际音标（international phonetic alphabet）是目前世界上比较通行的音标，简称IPA，最初制定于1889年美国人口构成1. The population of the United States is a bit more than 272 million, about 13% of which are Blac k, 12 % are Hispanic(讲西班牙语的人)，4% are Asian and the rest are White Americans.2. It is the third most populous country in the world after China and India.3. The most populous states are California, Texas, New York, Florida and Illinois.4. More than 80% of Americans live in urban areas.巩固：按照人口数量排列，美国在世界排在第几位；按照面积排，美国又是排第几位呢？1. Christmas is usually connected to ____A the reunion of a large familyB the eating of Easter eggsC the resurrection of ChristD the forgiving of other’s sins2. The largest of the ethnic minorities in America is ____A the blacksB the Mexico-AmericansC the Spanish-AmericansD the Chinese3. The British establish ____colonies along the east coast of North American between 16.7 and 1733.A. 11 B 12 C13 D144. The largest university in Canada is ____A Laval UniversityB The University of TorontoC McGill UniversityD Simon Fraser University5. Robinson Crusoe is written by ____A Henry FieldingB Daniel DefoeC Samuel RichardsonD Jonathan Swift6. ____is written by Walt Whitman.A Representative MenB English TraitsC NatureD Leaves of Grass7. ____is not a novelist.A Henry JamesB Emily DickinsonC William Dean HowellsD Mark Twain8. ____is not one of the core branches of linguistics.A PhonologyB Psycho-linguisticsC SyntaxD Semantics9. ____ is the common factor of the three sounds:[p], [t], [k]A voicelessB spreadC voicedD nasal10. English consonants can be classified into stops, fricatives, nasals, etc, in terms of ____A manner of articulationB openness of mouthC place of articulationD voicing按面积计算，美国继俄罗斯，加拿大，中国之后位居第四。

三一文库（）〔专八人文知识(练习题)〕*篇一：专八人文知识(练习题+答案详解)专八人文知识（练习题+答案详解）专八人文知识练习（1）1.Morphologyisastudyof___1___A.theinternalstructureofwordsandtherulesthatgovernt heirformationB.theusesofdifferenttypesofutterancesindifferentcon textsC.thedifferencesbetweensoundsusedinhumanlanguagesan dsoundsinnatureD.therulesthatpertaintoalllanguagesthroughoutthewor ld2.WhichofthefollowingdoesNOTbelongto “openclasswords”?___2___A.NounsB.AdjectivesC.ConjunctionsD.Adverbs3.Whatistheminimalunitofmeaning?___3___A.PhonemeB.MorphemeC.AllophoneD.Allomorph4.WhichofthefollowingisNOTafreemorpheme?___4___A.bedB.tressC.danceD.children5.WhichofthefollowingisNOTacompoundword?___5___A.RainbowB.InactionC.Icy-coldD.Unpleasant6.___6___areboundmorphemesbecausetheycannotbeusedas separatewords.A.RootsB.StemsC.Affixespounds7.Syntaxmainlydealswith___7___A.howalanguagechangesthroughtimeB.howwordsarecombinedtoformsentencesandtherulesthat governtheformationofsentences.C.howthehumanworkwhentheyuselanguageD.howalanguagevariesthroughgeographicalspace8.Syntacticcategoriescontainthetypeof___8___A.meaningthatwordsexpressB.affixesthatthewordstakeC.structuresinwhichthewordscanoccurD.alloftheabove9.WhichofthefollowingisNOTtheconcernofawordcategory ___9___A.Awordcategorycanbedeterminedbymeaning,inflectiona nddistributionB.Todetermineaword’scategorybyitsmeaningonlyisoftennotreliable.C.Awordcategorycanbeembodieddirectlyfromitsmeaning.D.Distributionismorereliablethanthemeaningtodetermi neaword’scategory.10.Whatelementsdoesaphrasecontain?___10___A.Head,determineandcomplement.B.Head,specifierandcomplement.C.Head,specifierandcomplementizer.D.Head,determinerandcomplementizer.参考答案：ACBDDCBDCB专八人文知识练习（2）1.WhereisBelfast?A.InIreland.B.InWalesC.InNorthernIreland.D.InScotla nd.2.ThecapitalofNewZealandis_____A.Canberra.B.Ottawa.C.Wellington.D.Washington.3.WhichofthefollowingisNOTaU.K.newspaper?A.TheGuardian.B.ChristianScienceMonitor.C.TheDailyT elegraph.D.TheTimes.4.Thecommunitycollegeisakindof_____collegepopularin _____tosatisfytheneedsofboththeindividualandthesoci ety.A.five-year;U.K.B.four-year;U.K.C.three-year;U.S.D. two-year;U.S.5.JamesJoycewasafamous____whosemasterpieceUlyssesha sbeenhighlyeulogizedintheWesternliteraryworldasoneo fthegreatestworksinthe20thcentury.A.Essayist.B.Novelist.C.Poet.D.Playwright.6.GeorgeGordonByronwasfamousforthefollowingworksexc ept____A.ChildHarold’sPilgrimage.B.QueenMab.C.HoursofIdleness.D.DonJuan.7.WhichofthefollowingisNathanielHawthorne’smostnoteworthynovelintheworld?A.GonewiththeWind.B.ForWhomtheBellTolls.C.AmericanT ragedy.D.TheScarletLetter8.Thestudyoftheruleswherebywordsorotherelementsofse ntencestructurearecombinedtoformgrammaticalsentence sis______.A.syntaxB.semanticsC.morphologyD.sociolinguistics9.Wordslike“Xerox”and”Kodak”areformedby____A.back-formationB.blendingC.coinageD.acronym10.WhichofthefollowingisNOTanapproachforEnglishlang uagetoeichitsvocabularyinthepastseveralcenturies?A.BorrowingB.UpgradationC.NarrowingD.Widening参考答案：CCBDBBDACB专八人文知识练习（3）1_____isthelargestcityandthechiefportoftheUnitedSta tes.AWashingtonD.C.BLosAngelesCSanFranciscoDNewYorkCity 2_____enjoystheworstsocialandeconomicconditions.ABlacksBHispanicsCIndiansDAsianAmericans3WashingtonD.C.isnamedafter___________.AtheU.S.PresidentGeorgeWashingtonBChristopherColumbusCbothGeorgeWashingtonandChristopherColumbusDnoneofthem4AmericanandBritishEnglisharetwo_____oftheEnglishla nguage.AvarietiesBelementsCpartsDform5ThefirstAmericanpresidenttobeelectedfromtheRepubli canPartywas______.AThomasJeffersonBJamesMooeCJamesMadisonDAbrahamLinc oln6Ofthefiftystates,thesmalleststateinareais_____.ARhodeIslandBVirginiaCTexasDMontana7ThenationalflagoftheUnitedStatesisknownas_____.AtheStar-SpangledBannerBUncleSamCHotDogDUnionJack8ThenumberoftheRepresentativesfromeachAmericanstate dependsonthe_____.AcontributionastatehasmadetothenationBpopulationCsizeDnoneoftheabove9Thetern“FatherofWaters”isusedtoreferto_____.AtheAmazonRiverBtheMississippiRiverCtheNileRiverDth eHudsonRiver10ThestatueoflibertywasgiventoAmericanpeopleby_____ asagiftin1884.AFranceBSpainCItalyDBritain答案详解：1D,纽约是美国最大的城市同时也是最重要的经济中心和最主要的港口。

英语专八人文知识15题（附答案）1.Which of the folowing is NOT a compound word?A. LandladyB. GreenhouseC. UpliftD. Unacceptable[题解]D derivation派生词。

2.The capital of Australia is ____A. SydneyB. MelbourneC. CanberraD. Perth[题解]C Sydney第一大城市，位于New South Wales州; Melbourne第二大城市，位于Victoria州; Canberra位于Sydney与Melbourne之间； Perth位于Australia州3.George Bernard Shaw was a(n) ____A. playwrightB. poetC. novelistD. essayist[题解]A（英）萧伯纳，爱尔兰裔，剧作家、批评家、社会评论家。

著有Man and Superman,Back to Methuselah,Saint Joan圣女贞德, Arms and the Man，Pygmalion茶花女，获得1925年诺贝尔文学奖4.The novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was witten by ____A. Henry JamesB. O. HenryC. Harriet Beecher StowerD. Mark Twain[题解]D（美）Henry James，著有Ambassadors, The Golden Bowl;（美）O. Henry，短篇小说家, 真实姓名为William Sydney Porter，著有Cabbages and Kings，The Four Million；（美）Harriet Beecher Stower，其反奴隶制小说Uncle Tom's Cabin，促进了废奴运动发展；（美）Mark Twain，真实姓名为Samuel Langhorne clemens，另著有The Adventures of Tom Sawyer5.Where is Edinburgh?A. In WalesB. In ScotlandC. In Northern IrelandD. In Ireland[题解]B Wales的首府为Cardiff, Scotland的首府Edinburgh,Northern Ireland的首府为Belfast, Ireland的首府为Dublin6.Which of the following is Not a U.S. news and cable network?A. ABCB. CNNC. CBSD. BBC[题解]D BBC, British Broadcasting Corporation,是英国广播公司。

英语专八人文知识练习题英语专八人文知识练习题练习题：1 The following were the founding fathers of the American Republic except _____.A George WashingtonB Thomas JeffersonC William PennD Benjamin Franklin2 The New Deal was started by _____.A Franklin RooseveltB J.K. KennedyC George WashingtonD Thomas Jefferson3 The United States was rated _____ in the world in terms of land areas.A secondB thirdC fourthD fifth4 The expenditure in American public schools is guided or decided by _____.A TeachersB studentsC headmasterD boards of education5 The Bill of Rights consists of _____.A 10 very short paragraphs in an amendmentB 10 amendments adopted in 1787C 10 amendments added to the Constitution in 1791D the amendments concerning the freedom of speech, the freedom of the press and the freedom of religion6 The United States produces as much as much as half of the world’s _____.A wheat and riceB cottonC tobaccoD soybeans and corn7 Which inventio n marked the beginning of “The Age of Visual Information”?A NewspaperB TelegraphC Laundry machineD Television8 The theory of American politics and the American Revolution originated mainly from _____.A George WashingtonB Thomas JeffersonC John AdamsD John Locke9 The District of Manhattan is in the city if _____.A Washington D.C.B San FranciscoC New YorkD Chicago10 The seats in the Senate are allocated to different states_____.A according to their populationB according to their sizeC according to their tax paid to federal governmentD equally练习题答案及题解1 C, 华盛顿、杰弗逊和弗兰克林都是美国创建时的元老功勋、而William Penn 是美国宾州的创始人。

专八人文知识(练习题)篇一：专八人文知识(练习题+答案详解)专八人文知识（练习题+答案详解）专八人文知识练习（1）1___1___2“”?___2___3?___3___4?___4___5?___5___-6___6___7___7___8___8___9?___ 9___,’’10?___10___,,,,参考答案：专八人文知识练习（2）1?2_____3?4__________-;-;-;-;5____206____’7’?8______9“”””____-10?参考答案：专八人文知识练习（3）1_____2_____3___________4_____5______6,_____7_____-8_____9“”_____10_____1884答案详解：1,纽约是美国最大的城市同时也是最重要的经济中心和最主要的港口。

2,黑人在美国的经济和社会地位都最为低下。

3,首都命名为华盛顿是为了纪念美国的第一任总统乔治?华盛顿，而联邦直辖区命名为哥伦比亚特区是为了纪念第一位从欧洲横渡大西洋到达西半球的探险家克里斯多拂?哥伦布。

4,美国英语和英国英语是英语语言的两种变体。

5,美国历史上的第一位共和党总统是亚伯拉罕?林肯。

6,美国国土面积最小的是罗得岛。

7,美国的国旗是星条旗。

8,美国每个州派往众议院的代表人数应与本州人口成比例。

9,美国的“众河之父”指的是密西西比河。

10,美国的自由女神像是法国人赠予的礼物。

专八人文知识练习（4）1_____-,30002,____3""""______,,,',,,',4'?,,,,,,,,,,,,5?617,____7____8 """"______'''''9'____10____-答案详解1是-时代留下的重要的古英语文学作品,它被认为是英国的民族史诗,是中古英语时期的浪漫传奇是英国大诗人乔叟的一部诗体短篇小说集2乔叟被誉为英国诗歌之父,是他的重要作品之一31608-1612被认为是莎翁的浪漫剧创作时期,包括四部浪漫剧和解剧,,',,,,为莎翁的喜剧,,为悲剧4莎翁最杰出的四大悲剧为,,,5是英国18世纪末19世纪初浪漫主义诗人的著作6是17世纪玄学派诗人的重要代表人物,是莎翁同时代的剧作家,篇二：专八人文知识(练习题)专八人文知识练习题__1_________2_________3______?___4___“”800?___5_________6___,16,______7___()___1215___8___“”??______9_________10______答案：1选。

英语专业八级人文知识练习题及答案英语专业八级人文知识练习题及答案1. “Ode to the west wind” was written by the author of ___.A “I wandered lonely as a cloud”B “Kubla Khan”C “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage”D “As Defense of Poetry”2. Which of the following poets does not belong to the school of romantic poets?A William WordsworthB Percy Bysshe ShelleyC George Gordon ByronD John Donne3. Charles Dickens wrote all of the following except ___.A Oliver TwistB David CopperfieldC A Tale of Two CitiesD Heart of Darkness4. “A Red, Red Rose” was written by ___.A Alexandra PopB Robert BurnsC William BlakeD John Keats5. Pip is the character of Charles Dickens’ novel ___.A Oliver TwistB David CopperfieldC A Tale of Two CitiesD Great Expectations6. Sense and Sensibility is a ___ by ___.A play… Jane AustenB novel… Jane AustenC play… Emily BronteD novel… Anne Bronte7. In reading Shakespeare, you must have come across the line “T o be or not to be---that is the question” by___.A Iago in OthelloB Lear in King LearC Shylock in the Merchant of VeniceD Hamlet in Hamlet8. Robert Browning’s “My last Duchess” is composed in the form of a(n) ___.A dramatic monologueB extended metaphorC syllogistic argumentD dialogue9. Thomas Hardy wrote novels of __.A character and environmentB pure romanceC “stream of consciousness”D psychoanalysis10. “Wessex novels” refers to the novels written by ___.A Charles DickensB D.H. LawrenceC James JoyceD Thomas Hardy答案详解：1 选D“I wandered lonely as a cloud” 的作者是William Wordsworth; “Kubla Khan” 的作者是 Samuel Taylor Coleridge;“Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage” 的作者是 George Gordon Byron.《西风颂》（Ode to the west wind）是 Percy Bysshe Shelley(雪莱)的代表作，他的文论着作有《诗辩》（A Defense of Poetry。