专业八级人文模拟题

人文模拟人文模拟（一）(1) In ________ the British Commonwealth was founded.A. 1913B. 1936C. 1939D.1945(2) Most pregnant working women receive their statutory maternity pay directly fromtheir employer for a maximum of ________ weeks.A. 10B. 18C. 28D. 22(3) The Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Continental Congress on ________ .A. April 19,1775B. Christmas Day of 1776C. May 10,1775D. July 4, 1776(4) Abraham Lincoln, as candidate of ________, was elected President in 1860.A.the Democratic PartyB. the Republican PartyC.the Labor PartyD. the Conservative Party(5) Which of the following is NOT true about the Independence Day?A.It is America‟s most important patriotic holiday, the birthday of the nation.B.Some people bring their children to visit the birthplace of the nation—Boston.C.The army fires a 13-gun salute.D.The President traditionally holds a large national banquet.(6) Spenser is regarded as one of the greatest poets in the English Renaissance. His 材masterpiece is ________.A. UtopiaB. The Song of BeowulfC. The Faerie QueeneD. The Canterbury Tales(7) The Romantic Age came to an end with the death of the last well-known romanticwriter ________ .A. Jane AustenB. Walter ScottC. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD. William Wordsworth(8) ________ was considered …the true father of our(Am.) national literature.‟A. Mark TwainB. Henry JamesC. Emily DickinsonD. Dreiser(9) Modern linguistics focuses on the present-day language, it will be possible to describelanguage from a ________ point of view.A. sociologicalB. synchronicC. diachronicD. psychological(10) The same word may have more than one meaning, which is called ________.A. synonymyB. homonymyC. hyponymyD. polysemy人文模拟（二）（1）The prevailing ________ winds or Westerilies blow over the country all the year.A. south-eastB. southC. south-westD. west（2）Education is compulsory for all between the ages of ________ and ________ .A. 5;16B. 4;17C. 3;18D. 6;15(3) The Constitution was first ratified by________ in December 1787.A. MassachusettsB. New YorkC. WashingtonD. Boston(4) Each local school district has ________ which is usually elected by the voters.A. a board of administrationB. a governing boardC. delegates‟ authorityD. an educational committee（5）Which of the following is NOT associated with Halloween?A. “Trick or treat”B. “Spring Break”C. bonfireD. pumpkin-lanterns（6）The most important styles in ________ in England is poetry and drama.A. the Middle English literatureB. RenaissanceC. The Victorian PeriodD. the Neoclassical Period(7) The Pickwick Paper is among ________ early novels.A. Jane Austen‟sB. Thomas Hardy‟sC. Charles Dickens‟D. D. H. Lawrence‟s(8)The novel________ is NOT written by Henry James.A. The AmbassadorsB. The Wings of the DoveC. The BostoniansD. The Mysterious Stranger(9) The distinction between competence and performance is similar to the distinctionbetween ________ .A. prescriptive and descriptiveB. synchronic and diachronicC. speech and writingD. language and parole(10) Semantics can be defined as the study of ________.A. namingB. meaningC. communicationD. all of the above人文模拟（三）（1）In Britain ________ of the population is urban and ________ is rural.A. 90%; 10%B. 80%; 20%C. 70%; 30%D. 60%; 40%（2）The Open University is based in ________ .A. LondonB. EdinburghC. the new town of Milton KeynesD. Cambridge （3）After President Jefferson bought the Louisiana territory from ________, there was a desire for territorial expansion among many frontier men.A. EnglandB. HollandC. FranceD. Spain（4）On April 18,1991, ________ issued the plan “American 2000: An Education Strategy”.A. ClintonB. BushC. Reagan C. Nixon（5）Since ________, many American children have asked for pennies instead of candies on Allhallow‟s Even for UNICEF to help children in other countries.A. 1868B. 1919C. 1950D. 1972（6）Romeo and Juliet, though a tragedy, is permeated with________ spirit.A. optimisticB. pessimisticC. satiricalD. realistic（7）________ is the most distinguished feature of Charles Dickens‟ works.A. HumorB. LanguageC. PlotD. Character portrayal（8）Altogether, Miss Emily Dickinson wrote 1,775 poems, of which only ________had appeared during her lifetime.A. eightB. seventeenC. nineD. seven（9）The study of language meaning is called ________.A. syntaxB. morphologyC. semanticsD. pragmatics(10) Words that are opposite in meaning are ________.A. synonymsB. hyponymsC. antonymsD. homophones人文模拟（四）(1)The names Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday came from ________.A. ChristianityB. Anglo-Saxon‟s Teutonic religiousC. DruidismD. Norman belief(2)Of monthly magazines(in England), ________has the highest circulation.A. EconomistB. Readers’ DigestC. SpectatorD. Scotsman(3)The Civil War was over when General Lee and his Confederate Army surrendered afterthe fall of their capital________.A. JamestownB. GettysburgC. RichmondD. Charleston(4) According to the US Constitution, the education is mainly a function of ________.A. the federal governmentB. the city governmentC. the county governmentD. the state government(5) Now in the United States, people usually spend Veterans‟ Day by ________.A.keeping two minutes of silence at home at 11:00 AMB.holding veteran‟s paradeC. holding public ceremoniesD. visiting the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery(6) Of the following plays by Shakespeare, which is NOT a comedy?A. Midsummer Night DreamB. The merchant of V eniceC. Twelfth NightD. Romeo and Juliet(7) The famous Bronte sisters in the English literature are the following EXCEPT ________.A. BranwellB. AnneC. CharlotteD. Emily(8)Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was a novel by ________.A. Henry JamesB. Mark TwainC. DreiserD. Dickinson(9)________made the distinction between language and parole.A. ChomskyB. SapirC. HallD. Saussure(10)Pragmatics differs from traditional semantics in that it studies meaning not in isolation,but in ________.A. relationshipB. dependenceC. sentenceD. context人文模拟（五）(1) In 1066 Harold and his troops fought against William‟s army Senlac Field near ________.A. LondonB. NormandyC. StandfordD. Hasting(2) ________is the home of golf. A. England B. Scotland C. Wakes D. Ireland(3) ________designed and flew a successful plane in 1911.A. Gleen E. CurissB. The Wright brothersC. Henry FordD. J. P. Morgan(4)________is considered to be an outstanding characteristic of American education.A. SimilarityB. CentralizationC. DiversityD. Unity(5) In the United States Thanksgiving Day is celebrated every year to thank ________.A. the PilgrimsB. the native IndiansC. GodD. both A and B(6) ________is not John Donne‟s work.A. The Sun RisingB. The Elegies and SatiresC. Apophthagmes New and OldD. A Hymn to God the Father(7) The Bronte children started creating works out of their collective minds. ________is suchan example, which is the joint work of Emily and Anne.A. Wuthering HeightsB. ShirleyC. Jane EyreD. Gondal(8) Mark Twain shaped the world‟s view of America and made a combination of________and serious literature.A. American folk humorB. funny jokesC. English folkloreD. American values(9) If the two sounds are in complementary distribution, they are ________ of the samephoneme. A. symbols B. allophones C. phones D. signs(10) Speech Act Theory was proposed by ________ in the late 50‟s of the 20th century.A. John AustinB. John SearleC. Paul GriceD. Chomsky人文模拟（六）（1）Magna Carta was signed in ________ at a conference at ________.A. 1066;RunnymedeB. 1215; WindsorC. 1215; OxfordD. 1215; Runnymede（2）The first National Music Day was held in ________.A. 1990B. 1991C. 1992D. 1993（3）During the early period of World War I, the United States pursued a policy of________.A. neutralityB. impartialityC. pro-Ally partialityD. firm support of the Allies （4）A very important aspect of American higher education that has drawn the world‟s attention is ________.A. research universityB. the community collegeC. doctoral universityD. liberal arts college（5）Today the Americans usually hold a big family dinner to celebrate the holiday, Thanksgiving Day, which often lasts for ________ days.A. twoB. fourC. threeD. seven（6）The story of Paradise Lost is taken from ________of the Bible.A. the New TestamentB. the Old TestamentC. the ExodusD. the Genesis（7）Tennyson‟s greatest work is ________, in which he laments a lot on the death of his dear friend Hallam. A. In memoriam B. PoemsC. Idylls of the KingD. Maud, a collection of short lyrics （8）The fame of Henry James generally rests upon his novels and stories with ________.A. historical themeB. the international themesC. tragic themeD. the American themes（9）In linguistics, ________is focused on.A. acoustic phoneticsB. articulatory PhoneticsC. auditory phoneticsD. none of the above（10）Cooperative principle was found by ________.A Pau; Grice B. John Searle C. John Austin D. Levinson人文模拟（七）（1）The last battle of the Wars of Roses was at ________in 1485.A. HastingsB. Bosworth FieldC. NasebyD. Oxford （2）________houses the British Center for Literary Translation.A. The University of OxfordB. The University of CambridgeC. The University of LondonD. The University of East Anglia（3）The United States declared war on Germany on April 6, 1917, because ________.A.Germany refused to give up its submarine warfareB.Britain and France were exhausted by the warC.Germany was trying to get Mexico into the war against the United StatesD.All of the above（4）According to the US News & World Report and other journals‟ evaluation, ________in the west are the best research universities.A. Harvard and Y aleB. Princeton and ColumbiaC. California and MITD. Stanford and Berkeley（5）On Christmas Day, there is a national tree lighting ceremony in ________.A. New York CityB. PhiladelphiaC. ChicagoD. Washington D.C.（6）________did not happen in the 17th century.A. The RenaissanceB. The Great PlagueC. The Great London FireD. The Glorious Revolution（7）In 1847, the Bronte sisters published the following famous novels EXCEPT ________.A. Jane EyreB. The Tenant of Wildfell HallC. Wuthering HeightsD. Shirley（8）Closely related to Emily Dickinson‟s religious poetry are her poems concerningA. lonelinessB. childhoodC. youth and happinessD. death and immortality （9）A phoneme is a ________unit. It is ________.A. phonetic, abstractB. phonological, concreteC. phonetic, concreteD. phonological, abstract（10）Once the notion of ________was taken into consideration, semantics spilled into pragmatics. A. meaning B. context C. form D. content人文模拟（八）（1）Henry VIII dissolved all England‟s monasteries and nunneries because ________.A. they often rebelledB. they broke lawsC. they were much more royal to the Pope then to their English kingsD. they didn‟t pay taxes（2）The United States of America is the ________country in the world in size.A. largestB. second largestC. third largestD. fourth largest（3）In the United States Ku Klux Klan terrorized and attacked ________.A. blacksB. all progressives B. Indians D. both A and B （4）Franklin‟s Poor Richard‟s Almanac is ________.A. his autobiographyB. an annual collection of proverbsC. a copy of travelsD. a novel（5）The story in …Beowulf‟ took place in ________.A. EnglandB. North EuropeC. ScandinaviaD. the Mediterranean（6）________compiled The Dictionary of the English Language which became the fundation of all subsequent English dictionaries.A. Ben JohnsonB. Samuel JohnsonC. Alexander PopeD. John Dryden （7）As far as Emily Bronte‟s literary creation is concerned, she is first of all, a ________, most devoted to nature with its mysterious workings.A. poetB. novelistC. prose writerD. environmentalist （8）Among the works of Dreiser, the best known to the Chinese readers is ________.A. American TragedyB. Sister CarrieC. The TitanD. The Financier （9）The feature that distinguishes …a greenhouse‟ and … a green house‟ is ________.A. toneB. stressC. intonationD. aspiration（10）A ________analysis of an utterance will reveal what the speaker intends to do with it.A. semanticB. syntacticC. unitD. an utterance人文模拟（九）（1）The Renaissance was typified by the universal genius of _______ .A. ShakespeareB. Francis BaconC. Leonardo da VinciD. Christopher Marlowe （2）Of all the fifty states in the United States, _______ is the largest in area.A. CaliforniaB. TexasC. AlaskaD. New Mexico（3）_______was the beginning of a long economic depression in the US.A. The bankruptcy of banksB. Serious unemploymentC. The stock market crashD. Farm foreclosures（4）The first American writer who gained international fame was _______.A. Benjamin FranklinB. R.W. EmersonC. Nathaniel HawthorneD. Washington Irving（5）_______, one of the greatest native poets in England, was regarded as the “father of English Poetry”.A. Geoffrey ChaucerB. Sir GawainC. Francis BaconD. John Dryden （6）_______ is Sheridan‟s comedy.A. The RivalsB. V olponeC. Everyman in His HumorD. The Dunciad （7）Most of Hardy‟s later works show his _______view of life.A. optimisticB. practicalC. pessimisticD. ironical（8）The age of Realism in the literary history of the U.S. refers to the period from _______to_______.A. 1861, 1914B. 1861, 1918C. 1865, 1914D. 1865, 1918 （9）Stress, tone and intonation are called _______ features.A. segmentalB. vocalC. speechD. suprasegmental （10）”blouse”, “denim” are _______origin.A. LatinB. FrenchC. GreekD. Scottish人文模拟（十）（1）_______ established blank verse in plays.A. William ShakespeareB. Francis BaconC. Edmund SpenserD. Christopher Marlowe（2）The United States lies between two oceans, _______ to its east and _______ to its west.A. the Pacific Ocean; the Atlantic OceanB. the Atlantic Ocean; the Pacific OceanC. the Indian Ocean; the Atlantic OceanD. the Pacific Ocean; the Indian Ocean （3）The bombing of the Pearl Harbor in 1941 was launched by _______ .A. GermanyB. JapanC. ItalyD. Spain（4）Washington Irving fills his stories with the “local color” of _______ .A. New York CityB. New York StateC. New York‟s Hudson River ValleyD. Germany（5）Middle English literature strongly reflects the principles of _______ .A. the originality of thoughtB. the medieval Christian doctrineC. the secular lifeD. the poetic tradition（6）_______ is NOT a novel written by Henry Fielding.A. Tom JonesB. Joseph AndrewsC. AmeliaD. Pamela（7）All the following literary trends EXCEPT _______ belong to modernism.A. ExpressionismB. DadaismC. ImagismD. Darwinism（8）Sister Carrie is a masterpiece of _______ writing.A. romanticB. classicC. neo-classicD. naturalistic（9）_______deals with the production and classification of speech sounds.A. Acoustic phoneticsB. Auditory phoneticsC. Articulatory phoneticsD. Phonetics（10）_______English had been deeply influenced by Norman French in vocabulary and grammar.A. ModernB. MiddleC. OldD. both A and B人文模拟（十一）（1）The Tories was the forerunner of the Conservative Party.（2）The longest river in the United States is Mississippi.（3）The decision on setting up of a world organization, the United Nations, was made by Yalta Conference.（4）In Irving‟s story, when Rip Van Winkle woke up and returned to his hometown he found that he had slept in the hill for 20 years.（5）Romance is a popular literary form in the medieval Period.（6）Defoe was sent to prison because of his pamphlet The Shortest Way with the Dissenters. （7）Jane Austin is NOT among the outstanding realist novels of the early 20th century. （8）Mark Twain is not an author of the modern period of American literature.（9）The sound [V] can be described as voiced, labiodental, fricative.(10) An important set of extensive sound changes affecting vowels, known as the GreatVowel Shift, occurred at the end of the Middle English period.人文模拟（十二）( 1)The Industrial Revolution first started in textiles.( 2) All the five lakes are shared by the United States and Canada except Lake Michigan.(3) The normal US-China diplomatic relation was not established until November 1978.(4)Walt Whitman was the first to explore fully the possibilities of free verse.(5)The repetition of sounds in two or more words or phrases that appear close to each otherin a poem is called the rhyme.(6)The Rape of the Lock was Pope‟s poem which satirized the idle and artificial life of thearistocracy.(7)Thomas Hardy is the important realistic poet in the Victorian Age and in the ModernPeriod.(8)Scott Fitzgerald is often acclaimed literary spokesman of the jazz.(9)Inflectional morphology studies inflections.(10) Work on the systematic form-meaning resemblance in cognates lies at the core of thecomparative reconstruction.人文模拟（十三）（1）The Independent Labor Party was formed in 1893, led by Keir Hardic.（2）New England lies in the northeastern part of the United States.（3）When the Korean war broke out, Truman decided to send military aid to Vietnam to support the French.（4）The story of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn takes place along the Mississippi River.（5）The Medieval period in English literature covers about four century(1100-1500).（6）Swift‟s satire is usually masked by an outward gravity, so it becomes even more bitter. （7）In modern period of English literature, T.S.Eliot regarded drama as the best medium of poetry.（8）Faulkner‟s novel The Sound and the Fury describe the decay and downfall of an old southern aristocratic family, symbolizing the old social order, told from different points of view.（9）The relation of the two clauses in a coordinate sentence is they are structurally equal parts of the sentence.（10）In early modern English thou was the second person pronoun used by social superiors to inferiors.人文模拟（十四）（1）After the Second World War, Britain gave up its economic hegemony and suffered a deep low of its position of industrial leadership.（2）The Middle Atlantic Region is the nerve center of the country because the nation‟s capital city Washington is located here.（3）Postal service is the government-run enterprise in the United States.（4）Sister Carrie was Dreiser‟s first novel.（5）William Caxton was the first person who introduced printing into England.（6）Johnson‟s style is at the opposite extreme from Jonathan Swift‟s simplicity.（7）In the Irish national theater movement, J.M. Synge was the most gifted dramatist, whose most popular play is the comedy The Playboy of the Western World.（8）Tender Is the Night is a novel of Francis Scott Fitzgerald.（9）A sentence is considered grammatical when it conforms to the grammatical knowledge in the mind of native speakers.（10）In English-language speech communities, the most obvious taboo words are related to sex, sex organs, excrement.人文模拟（十五）（1）With help from the USA, the British economy quickly recovered from the Second World War.（2）Now about 80% to 90% of immigration to the United States is from Asian and Hispanic countries.（3）Iowa in the US leads in the production of corn.（4）Old Man and the Sea is considered by many critics as Hemingway‟s representative work.（5）V enus and Adonis is one of Shakespeare‟s native poems.（6）Humanity is NOT a major feature of romanticists‟ ideological trend.（7）E.M. Forster‟s masterpiece is A Passage to India.（8）”The apparition of these faces in the crowded; Petals on a wet black bough.”Is the shortest poem written by Ezra Pound.（9）The subordinate clauses in a complex sentence is normally called an embedded clause. （10）A linguistic taboo refers to a word or expression that is prohibited by the “polite”society from general use.人文模拟（十六）（1）Britain was a world leader in shipbuilding during the middle of the 19th century.（2）The three states whose population have grown fastest in the past 20 years are: Arizona, Nevada and Florida.（3）Birmingham is the important iron and steel-producing city of the South.（4）Langston Hughs was regarded as Black America‟s poet laureate because he depicted urban Blacks realistically, wrote in free verse and used unconventional forms.（5）The Advancement of Learning by Francis Bacon is a great tract on education.（6）Wordsworth‟s I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud is the most anthologized poem in English literature.（7）America‟s transcendentalist group includes, Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, two of the most significant writers whose writing has a strong impact on American literature.（8）Iceberg is a typical analogy of Hemingway‟s style.（9）The rules that group words and phrases to form grammatical sentences are called combinational rules.（10）A euphemism is a mild, indirect or less offensive word or expression substituted whena speaker or writer fears more direct wording might be harsh, unpleasantly direct, oroffensive.人文模拟（十七）（1）In Britain rice is not grown.（2）Between 1980 and 1989, the North of the United States lost 2.7million population owing to more people moving out of the region.（3）Canada is the largest source of the US imports.（4）Martin Luther King gave his best-known speech “ I Have a Dream” before the Lincoln Memorial.（5）English Renaissance Period was an age of poetry and drama.（6）Coleridge‟s poems of the demonic group doesn‟t include Frost at Midnight.（7）The Romantic Period of American literature started with Sketch Book and ended with Whitman‟s Leaves of Grass.Being a period of the great flowering of American literature, it is also called “the American Renaissance”.（8）E.E. Cummings always used “i” instead of “I” to refer to himself as a protest against self-importance.（9）”There is no direct link between a linguistic form and what it refers to (i.e., between language and the real world). This is the conceptualist view concerning the study of meaning.（10）The English system of frequently used address terms include “first name, last name and kin name” , “ title+last name” and title alone.人文模拟（十八）（1）The monarch is the “supreme governor” of the Church of England.（2）Experts say that Asian Americans mainly owe their success to the Asian tradition of education, hard work and family.（3）The Bill of Rights is the term used for the first ten amendments to the Constitution. （4）The famous Lincoln Memorial is situated in West Potomac Park, Washington D.C. （5）“Shall I compare thee to a summer‟s day?”This is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare‟s sonnets.（6）The publication of The Lyrical Ballads marked the beginning of Romantic Age.（7）Washington Irving has always been regarded as a writer who “perfected the best classic style that American Literature ever produced.”（8）Robert Frost won the third Pulitzer Prize with A Further Range.（9）Sound (adj.) and sound (n.) are identical in sound and spelling, but different in meaning.They are complete homonyms.（10）It is suggested that children begin to develop the articulatory movements needed to produce the phonemic distinction s of their language before they master the phonetic contrasts.人文模拟（十九）（1）The House of Common is headed by the Speaker.（2）The “ first Americans” were the Indians.（3）The US Senators must be citizens of the United States for at least 9 years.（4）Valentine‟s Day is on February 14th.（5）In Milton‟s works, Paradise Lost is the greatest, indeed the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since “Beowulf.”（6）Southey belongs to the “Lake Poets”（7）Hawthorne‟s remarkable sense of the Puritan past, his apparent preoccupation with the moral issues of sin and guilt, and his keen psychological analysis of people are brought to full display in his masterpiece The Scarlet Letter.（8）Ezra Pound won the second Pulitzer Prize with “Collected Poems”.（9）The semantic features of the word “girl” can be expressed as: + ANIMATE, +HUMAN, -ADULT, - MALE（10）By language acquisition is primarily the acquisition of the grammatical system of language”, linguists mean that the general principles that are fundamental to the grammaticality of speech must be acquired.人文模拟（二十）（1）Women at the age of 60 and men at the age of 65 are entitled to a state retirement pension.（2）Christopher Columbus was an Italian navigator.（3）The most central function of the Congress is to pass laws.（4）Easter Sunday is a most important religious holiday for commemorating the resurrection of Jesus Christ.（5）Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth are regarded as Shakespeare‟s four great tragedies.（6）Shelley and Wordsworth had written a poem with the same name of Ode to the West Wind.（7）All sea adventure stories of Herman Melville, Moby-Dick proves to be the best.（8）In 1954, Ernest Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature for his “mastery of the art of modern narration ”.（9）In the collocational synonyms, “rebuke” is collocated by for.（10）Learning is defined as a conscious process of accumulating knowledge of a second language usually obtained in school settings.人文模拟[1] （1）A （2）B ( 3)D (4)B （5）C (6)C (7) B (8) A (9)B (10)D[2] （1）A （2）A ( 3)D (4) B (5)B （6）B (7) C (8) D (9) D (10)B[3] （1）A （2）C ( 3)C (4) B （5）C （6）A (7)D (8) D (9)C (10)C[4] （1）C （2）B (3) C (4)D （5）A （6）D (7) A (8) B (9)D (10)D[5] （1）D （2）B (3)A (4) C （5）C （6）C (7)D (8) A (9)B (10)A[6] （1）C （2）C (3)C (4) B （5）B （6）D (7) A (8) B (9)B (10)A[7] （1）B （2）D (3)D (4)D （5）D （6）A (7)B (8) D (9)D (10)B[8] （1）C （2）D ( 3)D (4) B （5）C （6）B (7)A (8) B (9) B (10)C[9] （1）C （2）C (3)C (4)D （5）A （6）A (7) C (8) C (9) D (10)B[10] （1）D （2）B (3)B (4) C （5）B （6）D (7)D (8)D (9) C (10)B。