2008-2012年英语专八人文部分真题及答案(部分有解析)

2012

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.

31: new Zealand 32: state 33: July 4th 34: the Arctic Ocean 35: T.S.Eliot 36: William Faulkner 37: personification 38: sequential rule 39: Disco 40: register

2011

31. The northernmost part of Great Britain is _______.

A. Northern Ireland

B. Wales

C. England

D. Scotland

参考答案：D

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

参考答案：D

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.

参考答案：A

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.

参考答案：B

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

参考答案：D

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

参考答案：C

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.

参考答案：A

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

参考答案：C

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

参考答案：A

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

参考答案：C

TIP：选C。Multilingualism的意思是“多语现象、多语制”。

2010

31. Which of the following statements in 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.

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.

33. When did the Australian Federation officially come into being?

A. 1770.

B. 1788.

C. 1900.

D. 1901.