英语专业八级人文知识仿真模拟题(10套)

冲击英语专业人文知识

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模拟题一

1. The traditional dividing line in America between “east” and “west” is

.

A. the Mississippi River

B. the Appalachians

C. the Rocky Mountains

D. the Hudson River 2. The river Thames is in

.

A. Wales

B. Scotland

C. England

D. Northern Ireland

3. Maples are always used to symbolize

.A. Australia B. America C. England D. Canada

4. In 1066,

led the Norman army in invading and defeating England.

A. William the Conqueror

B. Julius Caesar

C. Alfred the Great

D. Claudius

5. “God helps those who help themselves” is a citation from the work of

.

A. Paine

B. Franklin

C. Freneau

D. Jefferson

6. Theodore Dreiser and Jack London are among the best representative writers of

literary , which is greatly in? uenced by Darwin.

A. Naturalism

B. Sentimentalism

C. Romanticism

D. Transcendentalism

7.

is John Steinbeck’s masterpiece?

A. An American Tragedy

B. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

C. A Farewell to Arms

D. The Grapes of Wrath

8. If the study of meaning is conducted in the context of language use, a branch of

linguistic study called comes into being.

A. syntax

B. semantics

C. pragmatics

D. morphology 9.

are bound morphemes because they cannot be used as separate words.

A. Roots

B. Stems

C. Af? xes

D. Compounds

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10. Syntax mainly deals with .

A. how a language changes through time

B. how words are combined to form sentences and the rules

C. how the human work when they use language

D. how a language varies through geographical space

【答案与题解】

1. A 密西西比河是美国传统的东部和西部的分界线。

2. C 泰晤士河位于英格兰境内。

3. D 枫叶是加拿大的标志，枫树是加拿大的国树。

4. A 1066年，征服者威廉率诺曼底军队远征英格兰，大获全胜。这是外

族侵略英国的最后一次成功。5. B 该句是富兰克林的名句。

6. A 西奥多 德莱赛和杰克 伦敦是自然主义学派的典型代表，他们深

受达尔文自然观的影响。

7. D 约翰 斯坦贝克的著名作品是《愤怒的葡萄》。其他三部作品的作

家分别是 西奥多 德莱赛，马克 吐温和海明威。8. C 语用学研究上下文中语言运用的情况。

9. C 前缀和后缀被叫做粘着词素，不可以单独使用。

10. B 句法学主要研究句子结构以及词、词组和短语组成句子的规则。

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模拟题二

1. The most important and longest river in the United States of America is

.

A. the Ohio River

B. the Colorado River

C. the Missouri River

D. the Mississippi River

2. The first American president to be elected from the Republican Party was

.

A. Thomas Jefferson

B. James Monroe

C. James Madison

D. Abraham Lincoln 3. The largest city in Australia is

.

A. Canberra

B. Sydney

C. Melbourne

D. Perth

4. The real power of the British government lies in

.

A. the House of Commons

B. the Cabinet headed by the Prime Minister

C. the Prime Minister

D. the Queen

5. The great dividing line between the nineteenth century literature and the

contemporary American Literature is .

A. the Civil War

B. the First World War

C. the Second World War

D. the Great Depression

6. All of the following are the most eminent dramatists in the Renaissance England

EXCEPT

.

A. William Shakespeare

B. Ben Jonson

C. Christopher Marlowe

D. Francis Bacon

7. Which of the following writings can be regarded as typically belonging to the

school of Romantic literary?A. Don Juan . B. Ulysses.

C. Jane Eyre.

D. Sons and Lovers.

8. Which of the following items is not a design feature of human language?

A. Competence

B. Arbitrariness

C. Displacement

D. Productivity

9. Which of the following topics is part of the study of pragmatics?

A. The acquisition of grammatical rules in a second language.

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B. The change in the meaning of a word over time.

C. The relationship between a word’s structure and its meaning.

D. The uses of different types of utterances in difference contexts.10. The word “WMD”, which stands for “weapon of mass destruction”, is

.

A. an acronym

B. a compound one

C. a clipped one

D. a blended one

【答案与题解】

1. D 美国最长的河流是密西西比河，也是美国最重要的一条河流。它被

美国人视为“众河之父”(Father of Waters)，沿河流域也是美国的主要农作物产区。

2. D 美国历史上的第一位共和党总统是亚伯拉罕 林肯。

3. B 堪培拉是澳大利亚首都，悉尼市是澳大利亚第一大城市，墨尔本是

澳大利亚第二大城市。

4. B 君主立宪制下，国王的作用更侧重于其象征意义，而实权为内阁所

有，内阁由首相率领。

5. B 现代美国文学与之前的作品是由第一次世界大战作为分界线的。

6. D Francis Bacon 是文艺复兴时期著名的散文家，不属于剧作家。

7. A 《唐璜》一书是浪漫主义作家拜伦的一部经典作品。《尤利西斯》

和《儿子与情人》都是现代主义的作品，而《简 爱》则是维多利亚时期夏洛蒂 勃朗特的一部代表作。

8. A 语言的普遍特征包含：语言的任意性Arbitrariness ，多产性Producti-vity ，双层结构Duality ，移位性Displacement 和文化传播性Cultural Transmission 。

9. D 语用学研究语言是如何被人们使用来进行交际的，研究如何通过语

境来理解和使用语言。选项A 为二语习得的内容；B 为语言演变；C 为语义学。

10. A WMD 代表“weapon of mass destruction ”，属于词首字母缩略词。

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模拟题三

1. Which part in America is the earliest to be found and taken over by early settlers?

A. The Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain.

B. The Appalachians and their foothills.

C. The interior lowlands.

D. The Cordillera.

2. The national ? ag of the United States is known as

.

A. the Star-Spangled Banner

B. Uncle Sam

C. Hot Dog

D. Union Jack

3. There are two major national parties in Britain: the Conservative party and

.

A. the Liberal Party

B. the Democratic Party

C. the Labour Party

D. the Republican Party

4. Which name is NOT related to Britain?

A. Northern Ireland.

B. Scotland.

C. Wales.

D. Toronto.

5. The Great Catsby is written by

.

A. Ernest Hemingway

B. Sinclair Lewis

C. John Steinbeck

D. Francis Scott Fitzgerald

6. The English Renaissance period was an age of

.

A. poetry and drama

B. drama and novel

C. novel and poetry

D. romance and poetry

7. In the 19th century English literature, a new literary trend

appeared

and it ? ourished in the forties and in the early ? fties. A. Romanticism B. Naturalism C. Realism D. Critical Realism

8. The term

linguistics may be defined as a way of referring to the

approach which studies language change over various periods of time and at various historical stages.A. synchronic B. diachronic

C. comparative

D. historical comparative

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9. Ilocutionary act is .

A. the act of conveying literal meaning by means of syntax, lexicon and phonology

B. the act performed by or resulting from saying something

C. the act of conveying the in? uence of something on the hearer

D. the consequential effect of a locution upon the hearer

10. The sub-? eld of linguistics that studies the relation between language and society

is called

.

A. Sociolinguistic

B. Neurolinguistics

C. Macrolinguistics

D. Microlinguistics

【答案与题解】

1. A 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。

2. A 美国的国旗是星条旗。

3. C 英国奉行的是两党制。其两大主要政党是保守党和工党。

4. D 多伦多属于加拿大，与英国无关。

5. D 《了不起的盖茨比》是菲茨杰拉德的作品。

6. A 文艺复兴时期的主流文学体裁是诗歌与戏剧。

7. D 19世纪40、50年代主要的文学趋势是批判现实主义。

8. B 历时语言学研究语言各个阶段的发展变化，研究语言的历史发展规

律。研究的重点是历时变化着的语言现象，是语言要素从古到今演变的连续性。

9. B 言外行为：指说话时，因为言语本身的一些习惯力量而随之产生的

一些行为，如允诺、警告等等；言外行为通常表述的是说话者的交流目的或意图。而选项A ：指“说话”这一行为本身，即发声、说出单词、句子等行为，属于言内行为。言内行为通常表述的是话语的字面意思。选项D 为言后行为：指话语在听者身上产生的效果。10. A 研究语言与社会的是社会语言学。

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模拟题四

1.

is the largest state in terms of size and population in America.

A. California

B. Indiana

C. Kansas

D. Massachusetts

2. The number of the representatives from each American state depends on the

.

A. contribution a state has made to the nation

B. population

C. size

D. none of the above

3. The Industrial Revolution started in

.

A. the Great Britain

B. the United States

C. Canada

D. Australia

4. Who were the ancestors of the English and the founders of England?

A. The Anglo-Saxon.

B. The Normans.

C. The Vikings.

D. The Romans.

5.

showed great interest in Chinese literature and translated the poetry of

Li Bai into English.A. Ezra Pound B. Robert Frost

C. T. S. Eliot

D. Emily Dickinson

6. The publication of

marked the beginning of the Romantic Age.

A. Don Juan

B. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

C. The Lyrical Ballads

D. Queen Mab 7. Which of the following writers was NOT associated with Modernism?

A. D.H. Lawrence.

B. E.M. Foster.

C. Charles Dickens.

D. Virginia Woolf.

8. Sometimes, two varieties of a language exist side by side throughout the community,

with each having a de? nite role to play. This phenomenon is .

A. bilingualism

B. diglossia

C. pidgin

D. creole

9. A: Tom is such a noisy man, isn’t he?

B: I saw a fantastic movie yesterday.

What can we know from B’s answer?

A. B wanted to tell A that the ? lm he saw was good.

B. B did not understand A’s question at all.

C. B did not want to talk more about A’s topic.

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D. B did not know anything about Tom.10.

is regarded as the “father of modern linguistics”?

A. Chomsky

B. Saussure

C. Halliday

D Whorf

【答案与题解】

1. A 加利福尼亚州是美国最大的州，拥有人口也最多。

2. B 美国每个州派往众议院的代表人数应与本州人口成比例。

3. A 工业革命最早从英国开始。

4. A 英国民族的前身是盎格—撒克逊人。

5. A 庞德对中国文学十分感兴趣，并在其创作中受到中国哲学的影响，

曾翻译过李白的诗篇。

6. C 标志英国浪漫主义时期开始的是1798年华兹华斯《抒情歌谣集》的

出版。

7. C 福斯特、劳伦斯和维吉尼亚 沃尔夫都是英国现代主义时期的杰出

代表。而狄更斯则为维多利亚时期的作者。

8. B 这种现象是双言制，指两种截然不同的语言变体存在于社会中，每

种有其不同的地位和作用。而双语（Bilingualism ）是指两种截然不同的语言并存。pidgin （洋泾浜语）是指一种特殊的语言混合体，通常是因为某种特定的如经商等原因，由原本讲不同语言的人们为进行直接的交际目的而创造的变体。creole 则是一种已经固定下来的洋泾浜语，整个社团都用它来满足全部或大部分日常交际的需要，并被该社团的儿童作为母语来习得。

9. C 此句中显然是违背了语用学的关联原则，B 回答完全不相关的内容从

语用学的角度是因为他不愿意谈论此话题。

10. B 瑞士语言学家索绪尔被认为是现代语言学之父。他区分了语言和言

语两个重要概念。

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模拟题五

1. The natives of the continent of American are the

.

A. Canadians

B. Indians

C. Mexicans

D. Hispanics

2. The Statue of Liberty was given to American people by

as a gift in

1884.A. France B. Spain C. Italy

D. Britain

3. The two areas in Britain where a lot of immigrants live are .

A. London and Cambridge

B. London and the Heart of England

C. Manchester and Birmingham

D. Edinburgh and Nottingham

4. The capital of Canada is

.

A. Vancouver

B. Ottawa

C. Toronto

D. Quebec

5. With Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the scene,

became

the major trend in the seventies and eighties of the nineteenth century.A. Sentimentalism B. Romanticism C. Realism

D. Naturalism

6. In the late 18th century, a new literary movement called

came to

European mainland and then to England.A. Romanticism B. Classicism C. Realism D. Restoration

7. The famous poem A Red, Red Ros e was written by

.

A. Wordsworth

B. Byron

C. Burns

D. Keats

8. The

provides great philosophical insight into the nature of the

linguistic communication A. Speech Act Theory B. CP Theory

C. communicative competence

D. linguistic competence 9. According to Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, which of the following is NOT true?

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A. Different languages offer people different ways of expressing the world around.

B. Language ? lters people’s perception and the way they categorize experiences.

C. Language patterns determine or in? uence people’s thinking and behavior.

D. Language structure people habitually use shows no in? uence on people’s behavior.10. Phonetics is the study of

.

A. all the sounds that occur in the world’s languages

B. speech sounds used by human languages to represent

C. the differences between sounds used in human languages and sounds in nature

D. how phonological differences can lead to misunderstanding

【答案与题解】

1. B 美国的本土居民是当地的印第安人。

2. A 美国的自由女神像是法国人赠与的礼物。

3. C 现在，英国移民主要集中在伦敦及英格兰心脏地带的一些城市和

城镇，诸如Slough, Leicester, Wolverhampton, Birmingham, Luton, Bradford,Coventry, Bedford 和Reading 等等。4. B 加拿大首都是渥太华。

5. C 19世纪70、80年代美国文坛上活跃的是现实主义文风。以马克 吐

温、亨利 詹姆斯和威廉 豪威尔斯为代表。

6. A 浪漫主义18世纪末期在欧洲大陆兴起，后传入英国。它反对新古典

主义理性、秩序、常规的束缚，而强调感情的自然迸发，即对大自然的赞美等。

7. C A Red, Red Rose 《一朵红红的玫瑰》是Robert Burns （罗伯特 彭

斯）的著名作品。

8. A 言语行为理论将言语行为分成言内、言外和言后三种行为，有利于

我们更深入地分析语言的交际运用。

9. D Sapir-Whorf 假说认为语言决定或影响人的思维方式和行为。10. A 语音学研究世界语言中出现的所有声音。

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模拟题六

1. Thanksgiving Day is celebrated in

.

A. Britain

B. Britain and U.S.

C. the United States

D. all the English—speaking countries 2. Of all the American Presidents, whose presidential term is the longest?

A. George Washington

B. Thomas Jefferson

C. Abraham Lincoln

D. Franklin D. Roosevelt

3. Big Ben is a famous

in London.

A. statue

B. bridge

C. hotel

D. clock 4. The Parliament of Canada consists of the Senate and

.

A. the House of Lords

B. the Upper House

C. the House of Commons

D. the House of Representatives 5. Which of the following was written by Thoreau?

A. Nature

B. Walden

C. The Scarlet Letter

D. The Fall of the House of Usher

6. A typical feature of the English Victorian literature is that writers became social

and moral , exposing all kinds of social evils.A. revolutionaries

B. idealists

C. critics

D. defenders

7. In the following descriptions of the Neoclassical Period, which is wrong?

A. The Neoclassical Period is prior to the Romantic Period.

B. Henry Fielding is one of the representatives of the Neoclassical period.

C. The modem English novel came into being in the Neoclassical period.

D. Neoclassical Period is also known as the Age of Enlightenment.8.

are not a minimal pair in English.

A. “sink” and “zinc”

B. “? ne” and “vine”

C. “bat” and “pat”

D. “teach” and “cheat”

9. Hyponymy

.

A. is the relationship which obtains between speci? c and general lexical items, such that the former is included in the latter

B. is the relationship that stands between “? ute” and “instrument”

C. both a and b

D. None

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10. The famous line “My love is a red, red rose”, stirs up vividly the imagination of a

beautiful lady. This is the meaning of “rose”.

A. denotative

B. connotative

C. iconic

D. dictionary

【答案与题解】

1. C 感恩节是每年11月的最后一个星期四，主要是美国人为了感谢当初

到美国大陆定居时上帝和美洲古代印第安人的帮助而设立的节日。2. D 美国在位时间最长的总统是罗斯福，共有12年。3. D Big Ben 是英国著名的“大本钟”。

4. C 加拿大的议会包括参议院和众议院（the House of Commons ），参众

两院通过的法案由总督代表女王签署后成为法律。

5. B 梭罗的作品是《瓦尔登湖》，《论自然》是爱默生的作品，《红

字》是霍桑的作品，《厄舍古屋的倒塌》则是爱伦 坡的作品。6. C 维多利亚时期文学的一大主要特点是作家们开始用现实的笔触批判

社会现实。

7. D 新古典主义文学是在启蒙主义的影响下产生的，所以说新古典主义

文学就是启蒙主义是不对的。

8. D 最小对立体指的是语言中的两个词，只因为有一个区别性的音（即

一个音位），其意义也因此而不同。题目中的“sink ”and “zinc ”，“fine ”and “vine ”和“bat ”and “pat ”等都属于最小对立体。9. C 上下义关系：指的是一种意义包含的关系，包含者被称为上义词

superordinate ，而被包含者则被称为下义词hyponyms 。一个上义词一般会有许多下义词。比如紫罗兰violet 和郁金香tulip 的关系属于co-hyponyms 。花是它们的上义词superordinate 。

10. C 所有的语言符号都存在指示的denotative ，内涵的connotative 和图像的

iconic 等三种意义。指示的意义指的是字典中的意思。玫瑰指带有香味的一种花，通常为红色、白色等，这指的是玫瑰的denotative 意义；但是玫瑰还可以指代“激情”、“美丽”等，这是指玫瑰的内涵connotative 意义。许多文学作家喜欢在他们的诗歌中用玫瑰的图像iconic 意义。本题中的玫瑰指代的是一位年轻、漂亮的女士，采用的是玫瑰的图像iconic 意义。

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模拟题七

1.

is the largest city and the chief port of the United States.

A. Washington D. C.

B. Los Angeles

C. San Francisco

D. New York City 2. Who prepared the draft of The Declaration of Independence ?

A. John Adams.

B. Thomas Jefferson.

C. Benjamin Franklin.

D. John Hancock.

3. The largest river in the United Kingdom, which runs 355 kilometres and empties

into the Bristol Strait, is .

A. the Severn River

B. the Clyde River

C. the Thames River

D. the Potomac River

4. Australia was originally one colony of

.

A. America

B. Canada

C. England

D. New Zealand

5. Captain, My Captain! is written for

.A. Lincoln B. Whitman C. Washington

D. Hemingway

6. Wuthering Heights is the masterpiece by

.

A. Jane Austen

B. Emily Bronte

C. Charles Dickens

D. William Makepeace Thackeray

7. Paradise Lost is the masterpiece of

.

A. William Shakespeare

B. Robert Burns

C. John Milton

D. William Blake

8. Morphology is the study of

.A. the internal structure of words and the rules that govern their formation B. the uses of different types of utterances in different contexts

C. the differences between sounds used in human languages and sounds in nature

D. the rules that pertain to all languages throughout the world

9. Which description of the meaning components of the word “father” is right?

A. +human, +adult, -male

B. +human, -adult, + male

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C. -human, +adult, -male

D. +human, +adult, +male

10. The theory of universal grammar was proposed by

.

A. Noam Chomsky

B. Firth

C. F.

D. Saussure

D. Sapir

【答案与题解】

1. D 纽约是美国最大的城市，同时也是最重要的经济贸易中心和最主要

的港口。

2. B 为美国起草《独立宣言》的是托马斯 杰斐逊。

3. A 英国最长的河是塞文河。

4. C 澳大利亚为英联邦成员国。1931年，澳大利亚成为英联邦内的独立

国家。

5. A 《船长啊，我的船长！》是惠特曼为纪念林肯总统而作的。

6. B 《呼啸山庄》是艾米丽 勃朗特的作品。夏洛蒂 勃朗特的代表作

是 Jane Eyre 《简 爱》和 Shirle y 《雪丽》。7. C 《失乐园》是弥尔顿的作品。8. A 形态学主要研究单词的内部构造。

9. D 通过成分分析法，我们了解到，父亲这个词包含如下特征：人类，

成人，男性。

10. A 普遍语法是由乔姆斯基提出的。

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模拟题八

1. Washington D. C. is named

.

A. after the U. S. President George Washington

B. after Christopher Columbus

C. after both George Washington and Christopher Columbus

D. after none of them

2. The following were the founding fathers of the American Republic except

.

A. George Washington

B. Thomas Jefferson

C. William Penn

D. Benjamin Franklin

3. The general election in Britain is held every

years.

A. four

B. three

C. six

D. ? ve 4. The capital of New Zealand is

.

A. Auckland

B. Christchurch

C. Dunedin

D. Wellington 5. As a philosophical and literary moment,

?

ourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War.A. Modernism B. Rationalism

C. Sentimentalism

D. Transcendentalism 6.

is the most outstanding stream-of-consciousness novelist.

A. James Joyce

B. John Galsworthy

C.

D.H. Lawrence

D. George Bernard Shaw

7. William Faulkner, author of

, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949A. the Grapes of Wrath B. Invisible Man

C. To Kill a Mockingbird

D. The Sound and the Fany

8. The following statements about error analysis are true EXCEPT

.

A. The once predominant contrastive analysis was gradually replaced by error analysis.

B. Different from contrastive analysis, error analysis gives less consideration to native language.

C. Error analysis compares the forms and meanings across the native and target languages.

D. Two main sorts of errors were diagnosed: interlingual errors and intralingual errors.

. 17.

9. “big” and “small” are a pair of

opposites.

A. complementary

B. gradable

C. complete

D. converse

10.

is a branch of linguistics that studies how words are combined to form

sentences and the rules that govern the formation of sentences.A. Semantics

B. Pragmatics

C. Syntax

D. Morphology

【答案与题解】

1. C 美国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，而联邦直辖区被命名为哥伦比亚特区则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佛 哥伦布。

2. C 华盛顿、杰斐逊和富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。3. D 英国大选每5年举行一次。

4. D 新西兰首都：惠灵顿（Wellington ），是地球上最靠南的都城。海港

城市奥克兰是新西兰最大的城市。基督堂市Christchurch 是新西兰南岛东岸港口城市。达尼丁Dunedin 是新西兰南岛东南岸港口城市。5. D 从19世纪30年代到美国内战期间的主要文学流派是验主义，以爱默

生为代表。

6. A 意识流小说的最杰出代表作家是詹姆斯 乔伊斯。

7. B William Faulkner(威廉 福克纳)（1897~1962）是美国南方文学的代

表作家，诺贝尔文学奖的获得者。The Sound and the Fury 《喧哗与骚动》（又译成《愤怒与喧嚣》）发表于1929年，是他最具代表性的作品。小说大量运用多视角叙述的方法以及意识流手段，被认为是意识流小说乃至整个现代小说的经典名著。

8. C 错误分析是通过对比中介语与目的语的区别找出差异的错误，然后对

其进行分析。并不是比较母语与目的语的区别。其他选项都正确。9. A “big ”and “small ”是一对互补的反义词。

10. C 句法学研究句子结构，揭示构成某一语言句子的内在规则。这些规

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18.

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1. To the west of mainland America lies the

.

A. Atlantic Ocean

B. Paci? c Ocean C Indian Ocean

D. Arctic Ocean 2. Which of the following universities is the oldest university in Canada?

A. Laval University in Quebec City

B. University of Toronto

C. University of Alberta

D. University of Ottawa 3. Which of the following does not belong to the Island of Great Britain?

A. England

B. Scotland

C. Wales

D. Ireland

4.

is the leader of the British government.

A. Prime Minister

B. Queen

C. President

D. Governor

5. Ralph Waldo Emerson is the most outstanding of all the,

writers in

literature

A. Transcendental/ English

B. transcendental/ American

C. realistic/ English

D. realistic/ American

6. The book from which “all modern American literature comes” refers to

A. The Great Gatsby

B. The Sun Also Rises

C. Moby Dick

D. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

7. Samuel Johnson is most famous for

.A. A Dictionary of the English Language B. Ulysses

C. Jane Eyre

D. Pamela

8. The study of

does NOT form the core of linguistics.

A. syntax

B. pragmatics

C. morphology

D. sociolinguistics

9. The meaning relationship between the two words “sheep” and “ewe” is

.

A. antonymy

B. homonymy

C. hyponymy

D. polysemy

10.

?

rst proposed the Speech Act Theory.A. Searle

B. Austin

C. Grice

D. Halliday

. 19.

【答案与题解】

1. B 美国东临大西洋，西濒太平洋，北接加拿大，南靠墨西哥及墨西哥

湾。所以该题选太平洋。

2. A 拉瓦尔大学是加拿大最古老的大学，建于1663年。

3. D 不列颠群岛由两个大岛——大不列颠岛（较大的一个）和爱尔兰

岛，及成千上万个小岛组成。大不列颠岛上有三个政治区：英格兰、苏格兰和威尔士。爱尔兰不属于此岛。

4. A 英国的政体是君主立宪制。国王（女王）是国家元首，但政府的首

领为首相。

5. B 爱默生是美国超验主义的杰出代表作家。

6. D 这部作品是 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 《哈克贝利 费恩历险

记》。它被认为是马克 吐温最成功的作品之一，在文学史和西方文明史上享有重要地位。以上的评论为海明威所作。

7. A Samuel Johnson 是诗人、剧作家、小品文作家、批评家和政论家，

更是一位伟大的词典编撰家。他编写了第一部英国人自己的英语辞书——《英语大辞典》。这部词典对英语的规范化产生了重要的作用，当时的影响很大，并为他赢得了“词典约翰逊”的称号。8. D 语言学研究的核心主要包括：语音学、音位学、形态学、句法学、

语义学和语用学。社会语言学不属于此研究范围。

9. C hyponymy 上下义关系,指表示一般 (more general)概念的词包含表

示个别(more specific)概念的词。“ewe ”母羊是羊的一种。这里羊（sheep ）被叫做superordinate （上义词），母羊被叫做hyponym （下义词）。

10. B Speech Act Theory （言语行为理论）的创始人是英国哲学家J. Austin;

Searle 发展了言语行为理论；美国哲学家Grice 提出会话的合作原则（Cooperative Principle ），Halliday 是功能语法的创始人。

20.

模拟题十

1. The capital of Northern Ireland is

.A. Edinburgh B. Cardiff C. Belfast D. Birmingham

2.

is the first weekday after Christmas, a legal holiday in the UK,

Australia and New Zealand.A. Thanksgiving Day B. Boxing Day C. Easter D. Veteran’s Day

3. The world’s largest freshwater lake is Lake

.

A. Superior

B. Ontario

C. Huron

D. Michigan

4. President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed a well-known policy called

to save the economic situation in the 1930’s.A. the Open Door Policy B. the ‘Big Stick’C. Good Neighbor Policy D. the New Deal 5. Daniel Defoe is a famous

.

A. poet.

B. novelist.

C. playwright.

D. essayist

6. It is generally regarded that Keats’s most important and mature poems are in the

form of .

A. ode

B. elegy

C. epic

D. sonnet

7. The only black woman writer awarded Nobel Prize of Literature is

.

A. Alice Walker

B. Toni Morrison

C. Lorraine Hansberry

D. James Baldwin

8. What’s in a name?

That which we call a rose

By any other name would smell as sweet

So Romeo would, were he not Romeo called (Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Scene 2,43-5)To what characteristics of language does Shakespeare refer?A. Creativity B. Productivity C. Duality

D. Arbitrariness

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