专八人文知识测试题16套含答案.doc

Test 1

1.In Britain, where does the Changing of the Guard take place?

a)Buckingham Palace.

b)Downing Street.

c)Victoria and Albert Museum.

d)The Tower of London.

2.What is a double-decker?

a) A bus.b) A chocolate bar.

c) A taxi. d) A two-storey building.

3.Of all the symbols, ________, which are considered to represent

fertility and new life, are those most frequently associated with Easter.

a)the pumpkin and the turkey

b)the lamb and the beef

c)the spring peas and the potatoes

d)the egg and the rabbit

4.The first landing by Europeans in Australia was in 1606, but

what is their nationality?

a) Dutch. b) French.

c) Spanish. d) British.

5.Middle English was used by the poet _______.

a) Hardy b) Chaucer

c) Shakespeare d) Milton

6.“A Tale of Two Cities” w as written by ______.

a) William Shakespeare b) Goeffrey Chaucer

c) Charles Dickens d) Thomas Jefferson

7.Emily Dickinson wrote many short poems on various aspects of

life. Which of the following is NOT a usual subject of her poetic expression?

a) Religion and immortality. b) Life and Death.

c) Love and marriage. d) War and peace.

8.What three components, generally, make up a system of a

typical language?

a)Phonology, syntax, semantics.

b)Semiosis, syntax, frames.

c)Frames, semantics, utterances.

d)Sign, sign, signs.

9.Of the following word-formation processes, _______ is the

most productive.

a) clipping b) blending

c) initialism d) derivation

10.“The pen is mightier than the sword.” is an example of ______.

a) metonymy b) transferred epithet

c) oxymoron d) metaphor

c) dialect d) narrative

Test 2

1.What is the affectionate name given to the clock tower of the

Houses of Parliament, Westminster?

a) Big Ben. b) Big Ken.

c) Big Bill. d) Big Bob.

2.Which of these sports did not originate in UK?

a) Cricket. b) Snooker.

c) Football (Soccer). d) Golf.

3.Which town has been nicknamed ‘Tinseltown’ by the

Americans?

a) New Orleans. b) Reno.

c) Hollywood. d) Las Vegas.

4.What is the other official language in Canada besides English

and what is Canada’s capital?

a) French. Ottawa. b) Spanish, Ottawa.

c) Spanish, Toronto. d) French, Toronto.

5.Which English poet wrote of Adam and Eve’s expulsion from

the Garden of Eden in Paradise Lost?

a) John Donne. b) John Milton.

c) Sir Philip Sidney. d) Edmund Spenser.

6._______ died of tuberculosis at the age of 26, but not before

leaving an impressive body of poems, including “To Autumn”

and “Ode on Melancholy”.

a) John Keats b) Lord Byron

c) Samuel Taylor Coleridge d) Percy Bysshe Shelley

7.Walt Whitman was a pioneering figure of American poetry. His

innovation first of all lies in his use of ______, poetry without a

fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.

a) Blank verse b) Heroic couplet

c) Free verse d) Iambic pentameter

8.Of the following words, ______ is an initialism.

a) VOA b) NATO

c) BASIC d) UNESCO

9.Which of the following words is NOT formed through clipping?

a) Dorm. b) Motel.

c) Gent. d) Zoo.

10.A regional variety of a language that has variations in

pronunciation, vocabulary or meaning is called _______.

a) accent b) slang