专八人文知识真题及答案

专八人文知识真题及答案

2003年英语专八人文知识真题

31. is not a nationally observed holiday of America.

[A] Christmas [B] Easter Sunday [C] Thanksgiving Day [D]

Independence Day

32. The university of Dublin was not founded until .

[A] the 19th century [B] the 18th century [C] the 17th century

[D] the 16th century

33. The introduced old-age pensions in New Zealand in 1898.

[A] Labor Party [B] Democratic Party [C] Liberal Party [D]

Conservative Party

34. Irish culture experienced a golden age from to .

[A] the eighth century, the eleventh century [B] the seventh

century, the ninth century

[C] the sixth century, the eighth century [D] the ?fth century,

the seventh century

35. Which of the following writings is not the work by Charles

Dickens?

[A] A Tale of Two Cities [B] Hard Times

[C] Oliver Twist [D] Sons and Lovers

36. is a dramatist who holds the central position in American

drama the modernistic period.

[A] Sinclair Lewis [B] Eugene O'Neill [C] Arthur Miller [D]

Tennessee Williams

37. is often acclaimed literary spokesman of the Jazz Age.

[A] Ernest Hemingway [B] F. Scott Fitzgerald [C] William

Faulkner [D] Ezra Pound

38. is a relationship in which a word of a certain class

determines the form of others in terms of certain categories. [A] Concord [B] Immediate constituent

[C] Syntagmatic relations [D] Government

39. studies the sound systems in a certain language.

[A] Phonetics [B] Phonology [C] Semantics [D] Pragmatics

40. A linguistic situation in which two standard languages are

used either by an individual or by a group of speakers is called .

[A] situational dialect [B] slang [C] linguistic taboo [D]

bilingualism

2004年英语专八人文知识真题

31. The following are products imported by Australia from

China EXCEPT .

[A] food [B] textiles [C] steel products [D] electronics

32. Scots regard as the most important festival in a year.

[A] Near Year's Day [B] Christmas Day [C] New Year's Eve [D]

Easter

33. The republican movement has been gathering

momentum in Australia since became Prime Minister in 1992.

[A] John Howard [B] Bob Hawke [C] Malcolm Fraser [D] Paul

Keating

34. was known for his famous speech "I have a dream".

[A] John F. Kennedy [B] Martin Luther King, Jr

[C] Abraham Lincoln [D] Thomas Jefferson

35. Of all the 18th century novelists, ______ was the first to set

out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a "comic

epic in prose", and the first to give the modern novel its structure

and style.

[A] Daniel Defoe [B] Samuel Johnson

[C] Oliver Goldsmith [D] Henry Feilding

36. Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American

writers, is well known for his . [A] international theme [B] waste-land imagery

[C] local color [D] symbolism

37. Hemingway's writing style, together with his theme and

the hero, is greatly and permanently influenced by his

experiences .

[A] in his childhood [B] in the war [C] in America [D] in Africa

38. English consonants can be classified into stops, fricatives,

nasals, etc. in terms of .

[A] manner of articulation [B] openness of mouth

[C] place of articulation [D] voicing

39. Which of the following words can correct two clauses in

a coordinate sentence?

[A] Through. [B] When. [C] But. [D] If.

40. is the smallest unit of language in terms of relationship

between expression and content.

[A] Word [B] Morpheme [C] Allomorph [D] Root

2005年英语专八人文知识真题

31. is the capital of Canada.

[A] Vancouver [B] Ottawa [C] Montreal [D] York

32. U.S. presidents normally serve a (n) term.

[A] two-year [B] four-year [C] six-year [D] eight-year

33. Which of the following cities is NOT located in the

Northeast, U.S.?

[A] Huston. [B] Boston. [C]Baltimore. [D] Philadelphia.

34. is the state church in England.

[A] The Roman Catholic Church [B] The Baptist Church

[C] The Protestant Church [D] The Church of England

35. The novel Emma is written by .

[A] Mary Shelley [B] Charlotte Bront? [C] Elizabeth C. Gaskell

[D] Jane Austen 36. Which of the following is NOT a romantic poet?

[A] William Wordsworth. [B] George Elliot.

[C] George C. Byron. [D] Percy B. Shelley.

37. William Sidney Porter, known as O. Henry, is most famous

for .

[A] his poems [B] his plays [C] his short stories [D] his novels

38. Syntax is the study of .

[A] language functions [B] sentence structures [C] textual

organization [D] word formation

39. Which of the following is NOT a distinctive feature of

human language?

[A] Arbitrariness. [B] Productivity.

[C] Cultural transmission. [D] Finiteness.

40. The speech act theory was first put forward by .

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2006年英语专八人文知识真题

31. The President during the American Civil War was .

[A] Andrew Jackson [B] Abraham Lincoln [C] Thomas

Jefferson [D] George Washington

32. The capital of New Zealand is .

[A] Christchurch [B] Auckland [C] Wellington [D] Hamilton

33. Who were the natives of Australia before the arrival of the