专八人文知识03-12真题

2012年专业八级

31.The Maori people are natives of

A. Australia.

B. Canada.

C. Ireland.

D. New Zealand.

32. The British monarch is the Head of

A. Parliament.

B. State.

C. Government.

D. Cabinet.

33. Americans celebrate Independence Day on

A. July 4th.

B. October 11th.

C. May 31st.

D. September 6th.

34. Canada is bounded on the north by

A. the Pacific Ocean.

B. the Atlantic Ocean.

C. the Arctic Ocean.

D. the Great Lakes.

35. Who is the author of The Waste Land ?大荒原

A. George Bernard Shaw.

B. W.B. Yeats.

C. Dylan Thomas.

D. T.S. Eliot. 艾略特

36. Which of the following novelists wrote The Sound and the Fury?

A. William Faulkner.

B. Ernest Hemingway.

C. Scott Fitzgerald.

D. John Steinbeck.

37. "The lettuce was lonely without tomatoes and cucumbers for company" is an example of

A. Exaggeration.夸张

B. understatement. 轻描淡写

C. Personification.拟人

D. synecdoche. 提喻法；以小带大，或者以大代小，以局部代替整体，或以整体代替局部。

38. In English if a word begins with a [l] or a [r], then the next sound must be a vowel. This is a (n)

A. assimilation rule.

B. sequential rule.

C.deletion rule.

D. grammar rule.

39. Which of the following is an example of clipping? 截略法，构词法当中的一种

A.APEC.

B.Motel.

C.Xerox.

D.Disco.

40. The type of language which is selected as appropriate to a particular type of" situation is called

A. register. 语域

B. dialect. 方言

C. Slang俚语.

D. Variety变体

The indigenous people of New Zealand are the Maori.

31. D. New Zealand

32. B. state

33. A. July 4th

34. C. the Arctic Ocean

35. D. T.S.Eliot

36. A. William Faulkner

37. C. personification

38. B. sequential rule

39. D. Disco

40. A. register

2011专八人文知识真题参考答案

31. The northernmost part of Great Britain is _______.

A. Northern Ireland

B. Wales

C. England

D. Scotland

TIP：选D。英国最北端是苏格兰。

32. It is generally agreed that _______ were the first Europeans to reach Australia's shores.

A. the French

B. the Germans

C. the British

D. the Dutch

TIP：选D。1606年，荷兰航海家Willem Janszoon在约克角西岸登陆澳洲。1770年，英国人库克船长登上澳洲大陆并宣布它为英国领土。

33. Which country is known as the Land of Maple Leaf?枫叶

A. Canada.

B. New Zealand.

C. Great Britain.

D. The United States of America.

TIP：选A。加拿大被誉为“枫叶之国”。

34. Who wrote the famous pamphlet, The Common Sense, before the American Revolution?

A. Thomas Jefferson.

B. Thomas Paine.托马斯派恩

C. John Adams.

D. Benjamin Franklin.

TIP：选B。《常识》是托马斯?潘恩在美国革命之前撰写的。

35. Virginia Woolf was an important female ________ in the 20th-century England.

A. poet

B. biographer

C. playwright

D. novelist

TIP：选D。弗吉尼亚?伍尔芙是英国著名小说家，第二次世界大战期间，她是伦敦文学界的核心人物。

36. ______ refers to a long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero in a nation's history.

A. Ballad 歌瑶

B. Romance

C. Epic 史诗

D. Elegy哀歌，挽歌

TIP：选C。epic是“史诗、叙事诗”的意思。

37. Which of the following best explores American myth 杜撰出来的人物in the 20th century?

A. The Great Gatsby. 伟大的盖茨比斐司各特菲茨杰拉德

B. The Sun Also Rises.

C. The Sound and the Fury.

D. Beyond the Horizon.

TIP：选A。《天边外》是尤金?奥尼尔的著名戏剧作品，《太阳照常升起》是海明威的代表作，《喧哗与骚动》则是福克纳的代表作。《了不起的盖茨比》的作者是菲茨杰拉德的作品，反映了美国20世纪20年代到30年代的社会现实，对美国神话进行了另类诠释和解读。

38. _______ is defined as the study of the relationship between language and mind.

A. Semantics

B. Pragmatics

C. Cognitive linguistics

D. Sociolinguistics

TIP：选C。认知语言学认为，语言的创建、学习及运用，基本上都必须能够通过人类的认知而加以解释，因为认知能力是人类知识的根本。

39. A vowel is different from a consonant in English because of ________.

A. absence of obstruction

B. presence of obstruction

C. manner of articulation

D. place of articulation

TIP：选A。辅音主要是从肺部呼出的气流在通过口腔或鼻腔时遇到阻碍而发出的音，元音的发音与之最大的区别就是不受阻碍，不产生摩擦。

40. The definition "the act of using or promoting the use of several languages, either by an individual speaker or by a community of speakers" refers to _________.

A. Pidgin

B. Creole

C. Multilingualism

D. Bilingualism双语现象

TIP：选C。Multilingualism的意思是“多语现象、多语制”。

2010年英语专八人文知识真题答案

31. Which of the following is INCORRECT?

A. the British Constitution includes the Magna Carta of 1215

B. the British Constitution includes Parliamentary acts

C. the British Constitution includes decisions made by courts of law

答案D：The British Constitution includes one single written constitution

32. The first city ever founded in Canada is

A. Quebec

B. Vancouver

C. Toronto

D. Montreal

答案A：Quebec

33. When did the Australian Federation officially come into being?

A. B. 1788C. 1900D. 1901

答案D：1901

34. The Emancipation Proclamation to end the plantation slavery in the south of US was issued by

A. Abraham Lincoln

B. Thomas Paine

C. George Washington

D. Thomas Jefferson

答案A：Abraham Lincoln

35．Who was best known for the technique of dramatic monologue in his poems?

A. Will Blake

B. W.B.Yeats

C. Robert Browning

D. William Wordsworth

答案C：Robert Browning

36. The Financier was written by

A. Mark Twain

B. Henry James

C.

答案D：Theodore Dreiser

37. In literature a story in verse or prose with a double meaning is defined as

A. allegory 预言

B. sonnet

C. blank verse

D. rhyme

答案A：Allegory

38.____ refers to the learning and development of a language

A. language acquisition

B. language comprehension

C. language production

D. language introduction

答案A：language acquisition

39. The word “motel” comes from “motor –hotel”. This is an example of “…” in morphology.

A. backformation

B. conversion

C. blending

D. acronym首字母缩写

答案C：blending

40．Language is tool of communication, the symbol “highway closed” serves

A. B.C. a performative function D. a persuasive function

答案B：informative function

2009年真题

31. The Head of State of New Zealand is .

[A] the governor-general [B] the Prime Minister

[C] the high commissioner [D] the monarch of the United

Kingdom.

32. The capital of Scotland is .

[A] Glasgow [B] Edinburgh [C] Manchester [D] London

33. Who wrote the Declaration of Independence and later became the U.S. President?

[A] Thomas Jefferson. [B] George

Washington. [C] Thomas Paine. [D] John Adams.

34. Which of the following cities is located on the eastern coast of Australia?

[A] Perth. [B] Adelaide. [C] Sydney. [D] Melbourne.

35. Ode to the West Wind was written by .

[A] William Blake [B] William Wordsworth

[C] Samuel Taylor Coleridge [D] Percy B. Shelley

36. Who among the following is a poet of free verse?

[A] Ralph Waldo Emerson. [B] Walt Whitman.

[C] Herman Melville. [D] Theodore Dreiser.

37. The novel Sons and Lovers was written by .

[A] Thomas Hardy [B] John Galsworthy [C] D.H. Lawrence 劳伦斯[D]

James Joyce

38. The study of the mental processes of language comprehension and production is

.

[A] corpus linguistics [B] sociolinguistics

[C] theoretical linguistics [D] psycholinguistics

39. A special language variety that mixes languages and is used by speakers of

different languages for purposes of trading is called .

[A] dialect [B] idiolect [C] pidgin [D] register

40. When a speaker expresses his intention of speaking, such as asking someone

to open the window, he is performing .

[A] an illocutionary act 言外行为[B] a perlocutionary act言后行为[C]

a locutionary act言内行为[D] none of the above

2008年真题

31. The largest city in Canada is .

A. Vancouver

B. Montreal

C. Toronto

D. Ottawa

32. According to the United States Constitution, the legislative power is

invested in

.

A. the Federal Government

B. the Supreme Court

C. the Cabinet

D. the Conress

33. Which of the following is the oldest sport in the United States?

A. Baseball.

B. Tennis.

C. Basketball.

D.

American football.

34. The head of the executive branch in New Zealand is .

A. the President

B. the Governor-General

C. the British monarch

D. the Prime Minister

35. The Caterbury Tales, a collection of stories told by a group of

pilgrims on their way to Canterbury, is an important poetic work

by .

A. Willian Langland

B. Geoffrey

C. William Shakespeare

D.

Alfred Tennyson

36. Who wrote The American?

A. Herman Melville.

B. Nathaniel Hawthorne.

C. Henry James.

D.

Theodore Dreiser.

37. All of the following are well-know female writers in 20th-century Britain

EXCEPT .

A. George Eliot

B. Iris Jean Murdoch

C. Doris Lessing

D. Muriel

Spark

38. Which of the following is NOT a design feature of human language?

A. Arbitrariness.

B. Displacement.

C. Duality.

D.Diachronicity.

39. What type of sentence is "Mark likes fiction, but Tim is interested in

poetry"?

A. A simple sentence.

B. A coordinate sentence.

C. A complex sentence.

D. None of the above.

40. The phenomenon that words having different meanings have the same form

is called .

A. hyponymy

B. synonymy

C. Polysemy

D.homonymy同音异议词

2007年真题

31. The majority of the current population in the UK are decedents of all the following tribes respectively

EXCEPT .

[A] the Anglos [B] the Celts [C] the Jutes [D] the Saxons

32. The Head of State of Canada is represented by .

[A] the Monarch [B] the President [C] the Prime Minister [D] the

Governor-general

33. The Declaration of Independence was written by .

[A] Thomas Jefferson [B] George Washington

[C] Alexander Hamilton [D] James Madison

34. The original inhabitants of Australia were .

[A] the Red Indians [B] the Eskimos [C] the Aborigines [D] the Maoris

35. Which of the following novels was written by Emily Bront??

[A] Oliver Twist. [B] Middlemarch. [C] Jane Eyre. [D] Wuthering

Heights.

36. William Butler Yeats was a(n) poet and playwright.

[A] American [B] Canadian [C] Irish [D] Australian

37. Death of a Salesman was written by .

[A] Arthur Miller [B] Ernest Hemingway

[C] Ralph Ellis on [D] James Baldwin

38. refers to the study of the internal structure of words and the rules of word formation.

[A] Phonology[音位学音系学B] Morphology形态学[C] Semantics[D]

Sociolinguistics

39. The distinctive features of a speech variety may be all the following EXCEPT

.

[A] lexical[B] syntactic[C] phonological [D] psycholinguistic

40. The word "tail" once referred to "the tail of a horse", but now it is used to mean

"the tail of any animal." This is an example of .

[A] widening of meaning [B] narrowing of meaning

[C] meaning shift [D] loss of meaning

2006年真题

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 惠灵顿[D]

Hamilton

33. Who were the natives of Australia before the arrival of the British settlers?

[A] The Aborigines. [B] The Maori. [C] The Indians. [D] The

Eskimos.

34. The Prime Minister in Britain is head of .

[A] the Shadow Cabinet [B] the Parliament [C] the

Opposition [D] the Cabinet内阁

35. Which of the following writers is a poet of the 20th century?

[A] T. S. Eliot. [B] D.H. Lawrence. [C] Theodore Dreiser. [D] James

Joyce.

36. The novel For Whom the Bell Toll s is written by .

[A] Scott Fitzgerald [B] William Faulkner [C] Eugene O'Neill [D]

Ernest Hemingway

37. is defined as an expression of human emotion which is condensed into fourteen lines.

[A] Free verse [B] Sonnet [C] Ode [D] Epigram

38. What essentially distinguishes semantics and pragmatics is the notion of .

[A] reference [B] meaning [C] antonymy [D] context

39. The words "kid, child, offspring" are examples of .

[A] dialectal synonyms [B] stylistic synonyms

[C] emotive synonyms [D] collocational synonyms

40. The distinction between parole and langue was made by .

[A] Halliday [B] Chomsky [C] Bloomfield [D] Saussure索

绪尔

2005年真题

31. is the capital of Canada.

[A] Vancouver [B] Ottawa渥太华[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句法学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 .

[A] John Searle [B] John Austin简奥斯丁[C] Noam

Chomsky [D] M.A.K. Halliday

2009 31、D the monarch of the United Kingdom 32、B Edinburgh. 33、AThomas Jefferson. 34、C Sydney 35、D Percy B. Shelley36、B Walt Whitman. 37、C D.H. Lawrence. 38、D psycholinguistics.

39、C pidgin. 40、A an illocutionary act.

2008

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2007

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2006

BCADA DBDBD

2005

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专八2003-人文知识真题及答案精编版

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