专八人文知识试题

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 Ontario B. Lake Superior C. Lake Michigan D. Lake Erie

2. Which group of people can Not vote in the British general election? (B)

A. member in the House of Commons

B. Lords in the House of Lords

C. the UK citizens above the age of 18

D. the UK resident citizens of the Irish Republic

3. Walt Whitman helped to promote the development of (D)

A. sonnet B. couplet C. blank verse D. free verse

4. 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 autobiographical.

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 Golf B Football C Basketball D Tennis

22. The Second largest racial and ethnic group in the United Stated is (B)

A the white B the Hispanics C Chinese D the Blacls

23. 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 Quebec B Saskatchewan C Ontario D British Columbia

25. 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 London B Charles Dickens C Samuel Coleridge D Ernest Hemingway

2.In which novel can "Yahoo" be found?

A John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress

B Edmund Spencer's The Faerie Queen

C Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels

D Henry Fielding's Tom Jones

3.The Catcher in the Rye is written by ____

A J.D. Salinger B Jack London C Flannery O'Connor D Saul Bellow

4.The image of the famous "henpecked husband" is created by____

A Washington Irving B Fennimore Cooper C Edith Wharton D William Dean Howells