专业八级人文知识精选试题

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The Renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events, which one of the following is not such an event?

A. The rediscovery of ancient Rome and Greek culture.

B. England's domestic rest.

C. New discovery in geography and astrology.

D. The religious reformation and the economic expansion.

Which of the following is regarded as the most successful religious allegory in the English language.

A. The Pilgrim's Progress

B. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners

C. The Life and Death of Mr. Badman

D. The Holy War

It is alone who, for the first time in English literature, presented to us a comprehensive realistic picture of the English society of his time and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life.

A. Geoffrey Chaucer

B. Martin Luther

C. William Langland

D. John Gower All of the following four except are the most eminent dramatists in the Renaissance England.

A. Francis Bacon

B. Christopher Marlowe

C. William Shakespeare

D. Ben Jonson

It is generally regarded that Keats's most important and mature poems are in the form of .

A. elegy

B. ode

C. epic

D. sonnet

Daniel Defoe's novels mainly focus on .

A. the struggle of the unfortunate for mere existence

B. the struggle of the shipwrecked persons for security

C. the struggle of the pirates for wealth

D. the desire of the criminals for property

In Beowulf, fought against the monster Grendel and a five breathing dragon.

A. the Anglo-Saxons

B. Beowulf

C. the Scandinavian

D. the Winter Dragon Francis Bacon is best known for his which greatly influenced the development of this literary form.

A. essays

B. poems

C. works D plays

Most of Thomas Hardy's novels are set in Wessex .

A. a crude region in England

B. a fictional primitive region

C. a remote rural area

D. Hardy's hometown

We can perhaps describe the west wind in Shelley's poem "Ode to the West Wind" with all the following terms except .

A. swift

B. proud

C. tamed

D. wild

"Blindness", "partiality", "prejudice", and "absurdity" in the novel "Pride and Prejudice" are most likely the characteristics of .

A. Elizabeth

B. Darcy

C. Mr. Bennet

D. Mrs. Bennet

The modern English novel came into being in .

A. the middle of the 17th century

B. the 17th century

C. the late 18th century

D. the middle of the 18th century

Who is not the major figure of modernist movement?

A. Eliot

B. Joyce

C. Charles Dickens

D. Pound

Who is considered to be the best known English dramatist since Shakespeare?

A. Oscar Wilde

B. John Galsworthy

C. . Yeats

D. George Bernard Shaw Of the following poets, which is not regarded as "Lake Poets"?

A. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

B. Robert Southy

C. William Words worth

D. William Shakespeare

In the first part of Gulliver's Travels, Gulliver told his experience in .

A. Lilliput

B. Brobdingnag

C. Houyhnhnm

D. England

Which of the following cannot describe "Byronic hero"?

A. proud

B. mysterious

C. noble origin D progressive

In the history of literature, Romanticism is generally regarded as .

A. the thought that designates a literary and philosophical theory which tends to see the individual as the very center of all life and all experience.

B. the thought that designates man as a social animal

C. the orientation that emphasizes those features which men have in common

D. the modes of thinking

The term "metaphysical poetry" is commonly used to name the work of the 17th century writers who wrote under the influence of .

A. John Milton

B. John Donne

C. John Keats

D. John Bunyan

"The Vanity Fair" is a well-known part in . A. The Pilgrim's Progress B. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners C. The Life and Death of Mr. Badman D. The Holy War

In Oliver Twist, Charles criticizes .

A. money worshipping tendency

B. dehumanizing of workhouse system

C. hypocrisy of the upper society

D. distortion of human heart Which of the following plays by Shakespeare is history play?

A. Julius Caesar

B. The Merry Wives of Windsor

C. Henry IV

D. King Lear Who is regarded as a "worshipper of nature".

A. John Keats

B. William Blake

C. William Wordsworth

D. Jane Austen Which of the following writing is not the work by Charles Dickens?

A. A Tale of Two Cities

B. Hard Times

C. Oliver Twist

D. Sons and Lovers The 18th century England is known as the in the history.

A. Romanticism

B. Classicism

C. Renaissance

D. Enlightenment

专八人文：美国文学部分精选习题

In American literature, the eighteen century was the age of the Enlightenment. was the dominant spirit.

A. Humanism

B. Rationalism

C. Revolution

D. Evolution

Which statement about Franklin is not true?

A. He instructed his countrymen as a printer.

B. He was a scientist.

C. He was a master of diplomacy.

D. He was a Puritan.

Who is regarded as the first American prose epic.

A. Nature

B. The Scarlet Letter

C. Walden

D. Moby-Dick

The Romanic Period of American literature started with the publication of Washington Irving's and ended with Whiteman's Leaves of Grass.

A. The Sketch Book

B. Tales of a Traveler

C. The Alhambra

D. A history of New York

In Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, "A" may stand for .

A. Adultery

B. Angel

C. Amiable

D. All the above

The period before the American Civil War is generally referred to as .

A. the Naturalist Period

B. the Modern Period

C. the Romantic Period

D. the Realistic Period

The Age of Realism is the literary history of the United States refers to the period from to .

A. 1861 – 1914

B. 1863 – 1918

C. 1865 – 1914

D. 1865 – 1918

Who is described by Mark Twain as a boy with "a sound heart and a deformed conscience?"

A. Tom Sawyer

B. Huckleberry Finn

C. Jim

D. Tony

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 The impact of Darwin's evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the nineteenth-century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to yet another school of realism: American .

A. modernism

B. naturalism

C. vernacularism

D. local colorism

In 1900, London published his first collection of short stories, named .

A. The son of the Wolf

B. The Sea Wolf

C. The Law of Life

D. White Fang In which of the following works, Hemingway presents his philosophy about life and death through the depiction of the bull-fight as a kind of microcosmic tragedy?

A. The Green Hills of Africa.

B. The Snows of Kilimanjaro.

C. To Have and Have Not.

D. Death in the Afternoon.

Which of the following figures does not belong to "The Lost Generation"?

A. Ezra Pound

B. William Carlos Williams

C. Robert Frost

D. Theodore

Dreiser

Who is a dramatist that holds the central position in American drama the modernistic period?

A. Sinclair Levis

B. Eugene O'Neil

C. Arthur Miller

D. Tennessee Williams The following writers were awarded Nobel Prize for literature except .

A. William Faulkner

B. F. Scott Fitzgerald

C. John Steinbeck

D. Ernest Hemingway

In 1954, was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature for his "mastery of the art of modern narration".

A. . Eliot

B. Ernest Hemingway

C. John Steinbeck

D. William Faulkner Who is the author of the work: "The Grapes of Wrath"?

A. John Steinbeck

B. Eugene O'Neil

C. F. Scott Fitzgerald

D. Theodore Dreiser

In 1920 Sinclair Lewis published his memorable denunciation of American small-town provincialism in .

A. Main Street

B. An American Tragedy

C. Winesburg, Ohio

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Which of the following statements about language is NOT true?

A. Language is a system

B. Language is symbolic

C. Animals also have language

D. Language is arbitrary

Which of the following features is NOT one of the design features of language?

A. Symbolic

B. Dual

C. Productive

D. Arbitrary

What is the most important function of language?

A. Interpersonal

B. Phatic

C. Informative

D. Metalingual

Who put forward the distinction between Langue and Parole?

A. Saussure

B. Chomsky

C. Halliday

D. Anonymous

According to Chomsky, which is the ideal user's internalized knowledge of his language?

A. competence

B. parole

C. performance

D. langue

The function of the sentence "A nice day, isn't it?" is .

A. informative

B. phatic

C. directive

D. performative

Articulatory phonetics mainly studies .

A. the physical properties of the sounds produced in speech

B. the perception of sounds

C. the combination of sounds

D. the production of sounds

The distinction between vowels and consonants lies in .

A. the place of articulation

B. the obstruction of airstream

C. the position of the tongue

D. the shape of the lips

Which is the branch of linguistics which studies the characteristics of speech sounds and provides methods for their description, classification

and transcription?

A. Phonetics

B. Phonology

C. Semantics

D. Pragmatics

Which studies the sound systems in a certain language?

A. Phonetics

B. Phonology

C. Semantics

D. Pragmatics

Minimal pairs are used to .

A. find the distinctive features of a language

B. find the phonemes of a language

C. compare two words

D. find the allophones of language

Usually, suprasegmental features include ,length and pitch.

A. phoneme

B. speech sounds

C. syllables

D. stress

Which is an indispensable part of a syllable?

A. Coda

B. Onset

C. Stem

D. Peak

Which is the smallest unit of language in terms of relationship between expression and content?

A. Word

B. Morpheme

C. Allomorph

D. Root

Which studies the internal structure of words, and the rules by which words are formed?

A. Morphology

B. Syntax

C. Phonology

D. Semantics

Lexeme is .

A. a physically definable unit

B. the common factor underlying a set of forms

C. a grammatical unit

D. an indefinable unit

Which of the following sounds does not belong to the allomorphs of the English plural morpheme ?

A. [s]

B. [iz]

C. [ai]

D. [is]

All words contain a .

A. root morpheme

B. bound morpheme

C. prefix

D. suffix

The relationship between "fruit" and "apple" is .

A. homonymy

B. hyponymy

C. polysemy

D. synonymy

The part of the grammar that represents a speaker's knowledge of the structure of phrases and sentences is called . A. lexicon B. morphology C. syntax D. semantics

Which of the following items is not one of the grammatical categories of English pronouns?

A. gender

B. number

C. case

D. voice

The pair of words "lend" and "borrow" are . A. gradable opposites B. converse opposites C. co-hyponyms D. synonyms "Big" and "Small" are a pair of opposites. A. complementary B. gradable C. complete D. converse

According to C. Morris and R. Carnap, which is studies the relationship between symbols and their interpreters?

A. syntax

B. semantics

C. pragmatics

D. sociolinguistics

There are deixis in the sentence she has sold it here yesterday.

A. 3

B. 4

C. 5

D. 6

In the following conversation:

- Beirut is in Peru, isn't it?

- And Rome is in Romania, I suppose.

The second person violates the .

A. Quantity Maxim

B. Quality Maxim

C. Relation Maxim

D. Manner Maxim The maxim of requires that a participant's contribution be relevant to the conversation.

A. quantity

B. quality

C. manner

D. relation

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１．Which one of the four is NOT correct?

A) English-speaking countries are UK, USA, Canada, Barbados, etc.

B) English-speaking countries are UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, etc.

C) English-speaking countries are USA, Canada, Australia, the Republic of Ireland, etc.

D) English-speaking countries USA, Canada, Australia, Egypt, etc. ２．The famous short story The Fall of the House of Usher was written by

A) Charles Dickens B) Edgar Allen Poe

C) John Richardson (Canadian novelist) D) Henry Savery

３．Which one of the following Ivy League Schools is situated in Connecticut?

A) Yale University. B) Harvard.

C) Princeton. D) Columbia.

４．The branch of linguistics which studies the forms of words is __ MORPHOLOGY..

A) phoneme B) morpheme

C) semantics D) morphology

５．Who wrote a highly-acclaimed Novel Moby Dick?

A) William James. B) Herman Melville.

C) Ernest Hemingway. D) Cooper.

６．What is the name of the Lake in northern Utah of the

A) Lake Michigan. B) Lake Superior.

C) Lake Erie. D) the Great Salt Lake.

７．Who wrote Pygmalion which later was transformed into the highly popular New York Broadway musical My Fair Lady in 1956?

A) Edgar Allen Poe. B) Charles Lamb.

C) George Bernard Shaw. D) Alfred Tennyson.

８．Among the four pillars of English literature, who was NOT born and raised in Ireland?

A) Jonathan Swift. B) W'filiam Buffer Yeats.

C) James Joyce. D) Robert Browning.

９．Alaska lies in the of North America, stretching southward from the Arctic Ocean to the Pacific.

A) northwestern part B) southwestern part

C) northeastern part D) southeastern part

１０．Who is a satirist and the first writer in America to win the Nobel Prize in literature.

A) Eugene O' Neill B) Sinclair Lewis

C) TS. Eliot D) W'dliam Fanlkner

专八人文知识考前模拟试题2

The first capital of the young nation of the USA is .

A) Boston B) Philadelphia C) New York D) Washington

Which one of the following American cities is the birthplace of jazz?

A) New Orleans. B) New York. C) Boston. D) Chicago.

Who wrote one of the most enduring classic poem Ode to the West Wind ?

A) Wifiliam Wordsworth. B) Alfred Tennyson. C) Percy Shelley. D) David Bum.

When was Elizabeth I came to the throne of England?

A) 1538. B) 1548. . D) 1558.

When was Oxford University founded?

A) 1167 in Oxford, B) 1267 in Oxford.

C) 1367 in Oxford. D) 1467 in Oxford.

Canada is often described as a huge ~ centered on the Hudson and James Bay.

A) plate B) saucer C) cup D) bowl

In the literature of sociolinguistics, refers to a group of institutionalized social situations typically con strained by a common set of behavioural rules.

A) domain B) distribution C) dissimilation D) discourse

is a process in which part of the form is native and part is borrowed, but the meaning is fully borrowed.

A) loanshifting B) loanblending C) loan translation D) logical connection What is the name of the woman poet who had her The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung up in America?

A) Anne Bradstreet. B) Maria Edgeworth. C) Jane Austen. D) Emily Dickinson.

Who wrote and published the philosophical work Essay Concerning Human Understanding?

A) John Milton. B) John Locke. C) Richard Steele. D) Joseph Addison. 专八人文知识考前模拟试题3

_ is the branch of linguistics which studies the characteristics of speech sounds and provides methods for their description, classification and transportation.

A) Phonetics B) Phonology C) Phoneme D) Phonetic typology

The sounds in the production of which there is an obstruction of the air-stream at some point the vocal tract are called .

A) consonance B) consonant cluster C) consistency D) consonants

In its technical sense here, __ deals with the analysis and creation of words, idioms and collocations.

A) pictogram B) lexicon C) word-formation D) ideogram

When was Longrnan Group UK Ltd was founded?

A) 1721. B).1722. C) 1723. D).1724.

What is the name of the dictionary compiled by Samuel Johnson?

A) First English Dictionary. B) Dictionary of English Language.

C) A Dictionary of the English Language. D) Dictionary of the English Language.

Who wrote and publish Poor Richard's Almanack?

A) Benjamin Franklin. B) John Gay. C) David Hume. D) Samuel Richardson. Which one of the following four books was written by Harriet Stowe?

A) Roughing It in the Bush. B) Walden, or Life in the Woods.

C) Adam Bede. D) Uncle Tom's Cabin.

_ _ the capital of New South Wales, is the oldest and largest city in Australia.

A) Melbourne B) Sydney C) Darwin D) Canberra

, Valentine's Day, is sweethearts' day, on which people in love with each other express their tender emotions.

A) February 10th B) February 12th C) February 14th D) February 16th Major Newspapers and Magazines in the USA are , etc.

A) New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Times

B) New York Times, Washington Post, The Sun, Times

C) New York Times, Washington Post, The Evening Post, Times

D) New York Times, Washington Post, Sunday Times, Times

答案：ＡＤＢＤＣＡＤＢＣＡ

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