最新专八人文知识习题及答案

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今日话题：辅音如何分类

1. 发音部位（places of articulation）：双唇音(bilabial)、唇齿音(labiodental)、齿间音(dental)等；

2.发音方法(manners of articulation)：、爆破音(stop)、摩擦音(fricatives)、破擦音(affricates)、鼻音(nasal)、边音(lateral)等；

3.声带状态：清辅音、浊辅音。

因此更正第七期第十道

10. English consonants can be classified into stops, fricatives, nasals, etc, in terms of ____

A manner of articulation

B openness of mouth

C place of articulation

D voicing

选择A而不是C

1. St. Lawrence and River Columbia are shared by both _b___

A America and Mexico

B America and Canada

C America and Cuba

D America and Brazil

2. European settlement of Australia began in the late part of _c___ when a British penal colony was established on the east coast of the continent.

A the 16th century

B the 17th century

C the 18th century

D the 19th century

3. Which sport is supposed to be America's national sport and used to be call “American's favorable pastime”? a

A baseball

B basketball

C rugby

D cricket

4. The largest city in New Zealand is b____

A Auckland

B Wellington

C Christchurch

D Dunedin

5. After Adam Bede,____wrote The Mill on the Floss and Silas Marner in which moral problems arediscussed and psychological analysis of characters are emphasized.

A George Eliot

B Jane Austin

C George Dickens

D Charlotte Bronte

6.All of the following odes are written by John Keats EXCEPT____

A Ode to Autumn

B Ode to a Nightingale

C Ode to a Skylark

D Ode on Melancholy

7. Of____'s four famous comedies, the best known is Lady Windermere's Fan.

A Oscar Wilde

B Richard Sheridan

C Bernard Shaw

D Somerset Maugham

8. If the air stream meets with no obstruction when a sound is pronounced, it is a(n) __c__

A voiced consonant

B voiceless consonant

C vowel

D explosive

9. The internationally accepted system of phonetic transcription is ____

A I.P.A

B I.A.P.S

C I.S.S

D S.S.I.P

10. With the __d__, Latin words were added into the vocabulary of the language spoken in Britain.

A invasion of the Romans

B Christianization of Britain

C Scandinavian invasion

D Norman Conquest

答案

BCAAA CACAB

9. 国际音标（international phonetic alphabet）是目前世界上比较通行的音标，简称IPA，最初制定于1889年

美国人口构成

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1. The population of the United States is a bit more than 272 million, about 13% of which are Black, 12 % are Hispanic(讲西班牙语的人)，4% are Asian and the rest are White Americans.

2. It is the third most populous country in the world after China and India.

3. The most populous states are California, Texas, New York, Florida and Illinois.

4. More than 80% of Americans live in urban areas.

巩固：按照人口数量排列，美国在世界排在第几位；按照面积排，美国又是排第几位呢？

1. Christmas is usually connected to ____

A the reunion of a large family

B the eating of Easter eggs

C the resurrection of Christ

D the forgiving of other's sins

2. The largest of the ethnic minorities in America is ____

A the blacks

B the Mexico-Americans

C the Spanish-Americans

D the Chinese

3. The British establish ____colonies along the east coast of North American between 16.7 and 1733.

A. 11 B 12 C13 D14

4. The largest university in Canada is ____

A Laval University

B The University of Toronto

C McGill University

D Simon Fraser University

5. Robinson Crusoe is written by ____

A Henry Fielding

B Daniel Defoe

C Samuel Richardson

D Jonathan Swift

6. ____is written by Walt Whitman.

A Representative Men

B English Traits

C Nature

D Leaves of Grass

7. ____is not a novelist.

A Henry James

B Emily Dickinson

C William Dean Howells

D Mark Twain

8. ____is not one of the core branches of linguistics.

A Phonology

B Psycho-linguistics

C Syntax

D Semantics

9. ____ is the common factor of the three sounds:[p], [t], [k]

A voiceless

B spread

C voiced

D nasal

10. English consonants can be classified into stops, fricatives, nasals, etc, in terms of ____

A manner of articulation

B openness of mouth

C place of articulation

D voicing

按面积计算，美国继俄罗斯，加拿大，中国之后位居第四。

按人口计算，美国继中国，印度后，居第三。

答案ACCBB DBBAA

练习题：

1.The national epic of the Anglo-Saxons is ____.

A Robin Hood

B Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

C The Canterbury Tales

D Beowulf

2. ____was the most outstanding single romance on the Arthurian legend written in alliterative verse.