TEM8-人文知识练习01(历年真题).docx

TEM8人文知识练习01
TEM8-2009
1.The Head of State of New Zealand is _____ ・
A. the governor-general.
B. the Prime Minister.
C. the high commissione匚D・ the monarch of the United Kingdom.
2.The capital of Scotland is _____ ・
A. Glasgow.
B. Edinburgh.
C・ Manchester. D. London・
3.Who wrote the Declaration of Independence and later became the U.S. President?
A・ Thomas Jeffers on. B・George Washington.
C. Thomas Paine. D・John Adams.
4.Which of the following cities is located on the eastern coast of Australia?
A. Perth.
B. Adelaide.
C. Sydney.
D. Melbourne.
5.Ode to the West Wind was written by_____ ・
A. William Blake.
B. William Wordsworth.
C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
D. Percy B. Shelley.
6.Who among the following is a poet of free verse?
A. Ralph Waldo Emerson.
B. Walt Whitman・
C. Herman Melville
D. Theodore Dreiser.
7.The novel Sons and厶overs was written by
A. Thomas Hardy.
B. John Galsworthy.
C・ D・H. Lawrence・ D. James Joyce・
8.The study of the mental processes of language comprehension and production is _____ ・
A. corpus linguistics.
B. sociolinguistics.
C. theoretical linguistics. D・ psycholinguistics-
9.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.
10.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
TEM8-2008
1 ・ The largest citv in Canada is ・
A・ Vancouver. B. Montreal.
C・ Toronto D. Ottawa.
2.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・
3.Which of the following is the oldest sport in the United States?
A. Baseball ・
B. Tennis.
C. Basketball.
D. American football.
4. 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.
5. 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. C. William Shakespeare ・ 6. Who wrote The American Tragedy?
A. Hennan Melville.
B. Nathaniel Hawthorne.
C. Henry James.
D. Theodore Dreiser.
7. All of the following are well-known female writers in 20th centuiy Britain EXCEPT _
A. George Eliot.
B. Iris Jean Murdoch.
C ・ Doris Lessing. D. Muriel Spark ・
8. Which of the following is NOT a design feature of human language?
A. Arbitrariness- B ・ Displacement.
C. Duality.
D. Diachronicity ・
9. What type of sentence is "Mark likes fiction, but Tim is interested in poetry/5?
A. A simple sentence ・
B. A coordinate sentence ・
C. A complex sentence ・ D ・ None of the above ・
10. The phenomenon that words having different meanings have the same fonn is called
A. hyponymy ・
B. synonymy ・
C. polysemy ・ D ・ homonymy.
TEM8-2007
1. 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 ・(he Jutes D. the Saxons
2. The Head of State of Canada is represented by _____ ・
A. the Monarch
B. the President
C. the Prime Minister D ・ the Governor-general
3. The Declaration of Independence was writte n by _______ .
A. Thomas Jefferson
B. George Washington
C. Alexander Hamilton
D. James Madison
4. The original inhabitants of Australia were ______ ・
A. the Red Indians B ・ the Eskimos
C. the Aborigines
D. the Maoris
5. Which of the following novels was written by Emily Bronte?
A. Oliver Twist
B. Middlemarch
C. Jane Eyre
D. Wu the ring Heights
6. William Butler Yeats was a(n) _____ poet and playwright.
A. American B ・ Canadian
C. Irish
D. Australian
B. Geoffrey Chaucer.
D. Alfred Tennyson.
7. Death of a Salesman was written by ______ ・
A. Arthur Miller
B. Ernest Hemingway
C. Ralph Ellison
D. James Baldwin
& ______ refers to the study of the internal structure of words and the rules of word formation ・
A. Phonology
B. Morphology
C ・ Semantics D. Sociolinguistics
9. The distinctive features of a speech variety may be all the following EXCEPT _____ ・
A. lexical B ・ syntactic
C. phonological
D. psycholinguistic
10. The word tail once referred to "the tail of a horse 冷 but now it is used to mean "the tail of any animal.” This is
an example of _____ .
A. widening of meaning C. meaning shift TEM8-2006
1. The Presidents during the American Civil War was ____ .
A. Andrew Jackson
B. Abraham Lincoln
C. Thomas Jefferson D ・ George Washington
2. The capital of New Zeal a nd is __ ・
A. Christchurch
B. Auckland
C. Wellington
D. Hamilton
3. 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
4. The Prime Minister in Britain is head of ____ .
A. the Shadow Cabinet
B. the Parliament
C. the Opposition D ・ the Cabinet
5. 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
6. The novel For Whom the Bell Tolls is written by ____ ・
A. Scott Fitzgerald
B. William Faulkner
C. Eugene O'Neil D ・ Ernest Hemingway
7. ___ is defined as an expression of human emotion which is condensed into fourteen lines.
A. Free verse
B. Sonnet
C ・ Ode D. Epigram
8. What essentially distinguishes semantics and pragmatics is the notion of _____ ・
A ・ reference B. meaning
C. antonymy D ・ con text
9. The words "kid, child, offspring 11 are examples of ____ ・
A. dialectal synonyms
B. stylistic synonyms
C. emotive synonyms D ・ collocational synonyms
10. The distinction between parole and langue was made by _____ •
A. Halliay
B. Chomsky
C ・ Bloomfield
D ・ Saussure
B. narrowing of meaning
D. loss of meaning
TEM8-2005
1・ ____ is the capital city of Canada ・
A. Vancouver
B. Ottawa
C. Montreal
D. York
2. U.S. presidents normally serves a (an) _________teirn.
A. two-year
B. four-year
C. six-year D ・ e ight-year
3. Which of the following cities is NOT located in the Northeast, U.S.? A ・ Huston ・ B. Boston.
C. Baltimore. 4. ______ is the state church in England.
A. The Roman Catholic Church. C. The Protestant Church 5. The novel Emma is written by _____ ・
A. Mary Shelley. C. Elizabeth C. GaskelL 6. Which of following is NOT a romantic poet?
A. William Wordsworth.
B. George Elliot.
C. George G. Byron.
D. Percy B. Shelley.
7. William Sidney Porter, known as O. Henry, is most famous for _____
A. his poems.
B. his plays.
C. his short stories- D ・ his novels & Syntax is the study of _____ ・
A ・ 1 anguage functions ・ B. sentence structures ・ C ・ textual organization. D. word formation.
9. Which of the following is NOT a distinctive feature of human language?
A. Arbitrariness. B ・ Productivity.
C. Cultural transmission.
D. Finiteness ・
10. The speech act theory was first put forward by ______ .
A. John Searle.
B. John Austin.
C. Noam Chomsky.
D. M.A.K. Halliday.
KEY:
TEM8-2009: DBACD BCDCA
TEM8-200& CDABB CADBD
TEM8-2007: CDACD CABDA
TEM8-2006: BCADA DBDBD
TEM8-2005: BBADD BCBDB D. Philadelphia ・
B. The Baptist Church
D. The Church of England
B. Charlotte Bronte.
D. Jane Austen.。