专业八级人文知识题2006—2012年真题及答案

2006年英语专八人文知识真题答案

31. The Presidents 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 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

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

A. T.S.Eliot

B. https://www.sodocs.net/doc/4c10539691.html,wrence

C. Theodore Dreiser

D. James Joyce

36. The novel For Whom the Bell Tolls is written by

A. Scott Fitzgerald

B. William Faulkner

C. Eugene O'Neil

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. Holliday

B. Chomsky

C. Bloomfield

D. Saussure

2007年英语专八人文知识真题及答案

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 Bronte?

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 Ellison

D. James Baldwin

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

A. Phonology

B. Morphology √

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. Th e 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

2008年英语专业八级考试人文知识测试及答案

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 Congress.

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 Canterbury Tales, a collection of stories told by a group of pilgrims on their way to Canterbury, is an important poetic work by

A. William Langland.

B. Geoffrey Chaucer.

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-known 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.

31 选C加拿大最大的城市是TORONTO

32 选D立法权是国会THE

33 选A 棒球：一切都始于棒球美国的体育文化脱胎于棒球,一直以来,棒球就一直是文人们的最爱。作为最古老的美式运动,棒球的形态一直保存完整,历史学家们视之为宝物

34 新西兰的最高长官是B governor general 总督

35选B THE CANTERBURY TALES 是GEORFFERY CHAUCER 写的

36 选C THE AMERICAN 是谁写的Henrry James

37 选A 不是20世纪英国女作家那题选A 其他都是20世纪著名的女性作家

乔治.艾略特(George Eliot)原名玛丽·安·埃文斯Mary Ann Evans，1819年11月22日-1880年12月22日，英国小说家，与狄更斯和萨克雷齐名。其主要作品有《弗洛斯河上的磨坊》The Mill on the Floss，《米德尔马契》等。

38 选D 历时性(diachronicity) 这个不是语言学的特性

39选B 并列句but连接的两个分句

40选D homonymy指的是语汇中一对对或是一组组的单词，虽然意思不同，但是发音相同，或拼写相同，又或者是发音和拼写都相同。这些一对对一组组的单词我们称之为homonym(同形同音异义词、同形异义词、同音异义词)。

2009专八人文知识测试及答案

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 Windwas 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.

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.

B. a perlocutionary act.

C. a locutionary act.

D. none of the above.

31、（D）the monarch of the United Kingdom

32、（B）Edinburgh.

33、（A）Thomas Jefferson.

34、（C）Sydney

35、（D）Percy B. Shelley

36、（B）Walt Whitman.

37、（C）D.H. Lawrence.

38、（D）psycholinguistics.

39、（C）pidgin.

40、（A）an illocutionary act.

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

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 w ord “motel” comes from “motor –hotel”. This is an example of “…” in morphology.

A. backformation

B. conversion

C. blending

D. acronym

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

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?

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.

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

B. Romance

C. Epic

D. Elegy

TIP：选C。epic是“史诗、叙事诗”的意思。

37. Which of the following best explores American myth in the 20th century?

A. The Great Gatsby.

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

TIP：选C。Multilingualism的意思是“多语现象、多语制”。

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 Lana?

A. George Bernard Shaw.

B. W.B. Yeats.

C. Dylan Thomas.

D. T.S. Eliot.

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.

B. understatement.

C. personification.

D. synecdoche.

38. In English ifa 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?

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.

B. dialect.

C. slang.

D. variety

The indigenous people of New Zealand are the Maori.

31. D. N ew 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

专八2003-人文知识真题及答案精编版

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