05-14专八人文知识真题

05-13年专八考试人文知识

2005年

31. is the capital of Canada.

A) Vancouver B) Ottawa C) Montreal D) York

32. U.S. presidents normally serve a(n) term.

A) two-year B) four-year C) six-year D) eight-year

33. Which of the following cities is NOT located in the Northeast, U.S.?

A) Huston. B) Boston. C) Baltimore. D) Philadelphia.

34. is the state church in England.

A) The Roman Catholic Church B) The Baptist Church

C) The Protestant Church D) The Church of England

35. The novel Emma is written by .

A) Mary Shelley. B) Charlotte Bronte. C) Elizabeth C. Gaskell. D) Jane Austen.

36. Which of the following is NOT a romantic poet?

A) William Wordsworth. B) George Elliot.

C) George G. Byron. D) Percy B. Shelley.

37. William Sidney Porter, known as O. Henry, is most famous for .

A) his poems. B) his plays. C) his short stories. D) his novels.

38. Syntax is the study of .

A) language functions. B) sentence structures.

C) textual organization. D) word formation.

39. Which of ale following is NOT a distinctive feature of human language?

A) Arbitrariness. B) productivity. C) Cultural transmission. D) Finiteness.

40. The speech act theory was first put forward by .

A) John Searle. B) John Austin. C) Noam Chomsky. D) M.A,K. Halliday.

答案及解析：

31. [答案]B. 31题问哪一个城市是加拿大的首都。根据英美等国概况教材，我们知道渥太华是其首都，该城位于安大略省东南部。

32. [答案]B. 32题问的美国总统一任几年，大家都知道一任四年，一般情况可竞选连任一次。

33. [答案]A. 33题问哪一座城市不是位于美国东北部，答案是A. Huston(休斯顿)，该城位于北纬43°36′西经116°46′，所以选择A是理想的答案。

34. [答案]D. 34题问英国的国教。根据英国历史，我们知道从英王亨利八世时代起，为脱离罗马教皇(Pope)的统治，改以Anglican Church(也称the Church of England)为英国国教。这4题是史、地、文化或宗教等基本概况部分。

35. [答案]D. 35题问小说Emma为何人所作？该书为浪漫主义时期女作家Jane Austen所作。

36. [答案]B. 36题问哪一位不是浪漫派诗人？George Elliot．是维多利亚时期的一位小说家，不是诗人，其他几位都是著名的浪漫派诗人。

37. [答案]C. 37题问短篇小说家William Sidney Porter，笔名O-Henry，在哪方面最闻名于世？当然是其短篇小说，而且小说的结束常常出乎读者的意料之外。

38. [答案]B. 38题问句法学研究的内容是什么？当然是B(即句子结构了)。

39. [答案]D. 39题问下面四个选项中，哪一个不是人类语言的主要特征？除

Finiteness(有限性)外，其它几项在语言学概述部分都提到了，因此答案应选D.

40. [答案]B. 40题问言语行为是哪位语言学家首先提出来的？根据语言学著作的介绍，John Austinl969年首先提出了“言语行为”理论，其他人如John Searle (1969年提出)等，不管是提出或是进一步阐述该理论，都是在John Austin之后，对比不应有什么怀疑。答案应该选B.

2006年

31. The Presidents during the American Civil War was .

A. Andrew Jackson

B. Abraham Lincoln

C. Thomas Jefferson

D. George Washington

32. The capital of New Zealand is .

A. Christchurch

B. Auckland

C. Wellington

D. Hamilton

33.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

34.The Prime Minister in Britain is head of .

A. the Shadow Cabinet

B. the Parliament

C. the Opposition

D. the Cabinet

35.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

36. The novel For Whom the Bell Tolls is written by .

A. Scott Fitzgerald

B. William Faulkner

C. Eugene O’Neil

D. Ernest Hemingway

37._____ is defined as an expression of human emotion which is condensed into fourteen lines

A. Free verse

B. Sonnet

C. Ode

D. Epigram

38. What essentially distinguishes semantics and pragmatics is the notion of .

A. reference

B. meaning

C. antonymy

D. context

39.The words “kid，child，offspring” are examples of .

A. dialectal synonyms

B. stylistic synonyms

C. emotive synonyms

D. collocational synonyms

40. The distinction between parole and langue was made by .

A. Halliday

B. Chomsky

C. Bloomfield

D. Saussure

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2007年

31. 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. the Jutes

D. the Saxons

32. The Head of State of Canada is represented by .

A. the Monarch

B. the President

C. the Prime Minister

D. the Governor-general

33. The Declaration of Independence was written by____________.