专八人文知识(练习题)

专八人文知识(练习题)
篇一：★英语专八人文知识题与答案
英语专业八级人文知识
试题(1)
美国概况练习题：
1. The traditional dividing line in America between “east” and “west” is_____.
2. The earliest part in America to be found and taken over by early settlers is ____.
3. The largest racial group in the whole population of U.S.A is____.
4. Before 2000, the largest minority group in the United States is____.
has the world’s oldest written constitution and political party.
6. The economic problem caused by the depression in 1929 was eventually solved by____.
years.
institutions.
9. The three main levels of courts of the federal judicial system in America are____________.
10. _____ (which state ) is not governed by the mon law.
练习题答案及题解:
1. The Mississippi River, 密西西比河是美国传统的东方和西方的分界线。

2. The Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain，最早被早期定居者发现和占领的地方是大西洋及其沿岸平原。

3. Non-Hispanics white，非西班牙裔的白人是美国最大的种族群体。

4. African Americans， 2000年以前非裔美国人是美国最大的少数民族群体。

2000年以后，拉丁裔美国人的人数超过了非裔美国人的人数，成为美国第一大少数民族群体。

5. America，美国拥有世界上最古老的宪法和政党。

6. World War II，第二次世界大战的爆发帮助美国走出了经济困境。

7. Six years，美国的小学要花费大约六年的时间。

8. Public，大部分美国大学生都在公立学校就读。

9. 美国的联邦法院系统包括：the United States District Courts; the United States Courts of Appeal ; the United States Supreme Court.
10 .Louisiana，路易斯安娜州不受共同法的约束。

英语专业八级人文知识(2)
美国概况练习题：
1. Of the fifty states of America, _____states now have the death penalty as punishment.
2. The four major regions of the United Sates
are________________________________.
3. ______ region’s culture character was shaped largely by Puritan spirit.
4. ______is the largest state in terms of size and population in America.
5.＂Hollywood＂is often used as a synonym for_____.
6. The most important and largest river in the United States of America is_____.
7. The north-eastern part of the United
States ――New England enjoys a _____climate.
8. To the west of mainland American lies the _____ Ocean.
9. Detroit, a U.S. city bordering Lake Erie, is famous for its_____.
10. The natives of the continent of the America are the_____.
练习题答案及题解:
1． 38, 美国现有38个州惩罚罪犯采用死刑。

2．Northeast, South, Midwest and West, 美国的主要四大部分不包括北部。

3． The New England Region, 美国的新英格兰地区，也就是东北部地区深受清教思想的影响。

4．California，加利福尼亚州是美国最大的州，拥有人口也最多。

5．American films，好莱坞是美国著名的电影制造地。

6． the Mississippi River，美国最长的河流是密西西比河，也是美国最重要的一条河流。

被美国人视为“众河之父”，沿河流域也是美国的主要农作物产区。

7．typical continental，美国东北部的新英格兰地区是典型的大陆性气候。

冬天寒冷，夏天炎热。

8．Pacific Ocean，美国东临大西洋，西濒太平洋，北接加拿大，南靠墨西哥及墨西哥湾。

9．automobile industry，底特律是美国著名的汽车城。

10．Indians，美国的本土居民是当地的印第安人。

英语专业八级人文知识(3)
美国概况练习题：
1．_____ is the largest city and the chief port of the United States.
A．Washington D.C
B．Los AngelesC． San FranciscoD．New York City
2． _____ enjoys the worst social and economic conditions.
A． BlacksB ．HispanicsC． Indians D． Asian Americans
3．Washington D.C. is named after___________.
A． the U.S. President George Washington
B ．Christopher Columbus
C ．both George Washington and Christopher Columbus
D ．none of them
4 ．American and British English are two_____ of the English language.
A． varieties B． elementsC． parts D． form
5． The first American president to be elected from the Republican Party was ______.
A．Thomas Jefferson B． James Mooe C． James Madison D．Abraham Lincoln
6．Of the fifty states, the smallest state in area
is_____.
A． Rhode IslandB ．VirginiaC． TexasD ．Montana
7． The national flag of the United States is known as_____.
A． the Star-Spangled BannerB ．Uncle SamC ．Hot DogD ．Union Jack
8． The number of the Representatives from each American state depends on the _____.
A．contribution a state has made to the
nationB． population
C． sizeD． none of the above
9．The term “Father of Waters” is used to refer to _____.
A． the Amazon River B． the Mississippi River
C． the Nile River D． the Hudson River
10. The statue of liberty was given to American people by_____ as a gift in 1884.
A． France B． Spain C ．Italy D ．Britain
练习题答案及题解:
1．D, 纽约是美国最大的城市同时也是最重要的经济中心和最主要的港口。

2．A, 黑人在美国的经济和社会地位都最为低下。

3．C, 首都命名为华盛顿是为了纪念美国的第一任总统乔治?华盛顿，而联邦直辖区命名为哥伦比亚特区是为了纪念第一位从欧洲横渡大西洋到达西半球的探险家克里斯多拂?哥伦布。

4． A, 美国英语和英国英语是英语语言的两种变体。

5． D, 美国历史上的第一位共和党总统是亚伯拉罕?林肯。

6． A, 美国国土面积最小的是罗得岛。

7 ．A, 美国的国旗是星条旗。

8． B, 美国每个州派往众议院的代表人数应与本州人口成比例。

9 ．B, 美国的“众河之父”指的是密西西比河。

10． A, 美国的自由女神像是法国人赠予的礼物。

英语专业八级人文知识(4)
英国概况练习题：
1. Britain was the first country to be industrialized because of the following factors except _____.
A. Britain was well placed geographically to participate in European and world trade.
B. Britain had many rivers, which were useful for transport.
C. British engineers had sound training and the inventors were respected.
D. British government was increasingly interested in overseas and colonies after the 17th century.
2. The United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy. The _____ has very little power.
A. queen
B. monarch
C. prime minister
D. king
3.
Which party has always had strong links with the
trade unions and received financial support from them?
A. the Labor Party
B. the Conservative Party
C. the Liberal Party
D. the Social Democratic Party
4.
On accepting ____, the age of constitutional monarchy, of a monarchy with powers limited by Parliament,began.
A. Constitutional Law
B. The Declaration of Independence
C. Civil Law
D. Bill of Rights
5.
Females were allowed to vote in national elections
until ____.
A. 1918
B. 1916
C. 1920
D. 1896
6.
The British North America Act of 1867 established
____ as a domain.
A. Australia
B. Canada
C. New Zealand
D. India
7.
During World War II, as a war leader, _____ received massive popular support and led his country to final victory in 1945.
A. Harold Wilson
B. Edward Heath
C. Franklin Roosevelt
D. Winston Churchill
8.
The Falkland Islands war was between Britain and
_____.
A. France
B. New Zealand
C. Argentina
D. Australia
9.
In Britain, a _____ is held when a Member of Parliament dies, retires or resigns.
A. civic election
B. by-election
C. popular election
D. general election
10.
In the United Kingdom, ministers are appointed by the Queen on the remendation of _____.
A. the Lord Chancellor
B. the Monarch
C. the Prime Minister
D. the King
练习题答案及题解:
1. D, 英国之所以能成为世界上最早开始工业化的国家,原因有很多。

但英国是从17世纪以后逐步开始对海外贸易和开拓海外殖民地产生浓厚兴趣的。

2. B, 英国是君主立宪制国家，国王或女王（君主）几乎没什么实质性的权力。

3. A, 保守党和自由党是英国最早成立的两个党派。

大致来说，保守党是中上层阶级的党，它得到大公司财政上的支持；而工党，主要得到工会的支持，它的支持者主要是中产阶级和知识分子。

4. D, 《权利法案》的签署，标志着英国进入了君主立宪制时代，一个君主几乎没有什么实质性权力并受制于议会的时代。

5. A, 直到1918年妇女才在全国大选中享有选举权。

6. B, 《1867年英国北美法案》将加拿大纳为它的自治领。

7. D, 在第二次世界大战中，当时的英国首相丘吉尔作为战争统帅受到了英国人民的广泛拥戴，并带领英国人民赢得了战争的最后胜利。

8. C, 福克兰群岛战役是发生在英国和阿根廷这两个国家之间。

位于大西洋南部的福克兰群岛从1892年起就是英国的海外殖民地，1982年阿根廷开始控制这些岛屿，但是英国最终打败了阿根廷，并重新占领了这些岛屿。

9. B, 英国的下院议会成员中有人去世、退休或辞职时，就要进行补缺选举。

10. C, 在英国，部长们是由首相推荐，女王加以任命的。

英语专业八级人文知识（5）
英国概况练习题：
1. How many members are there in the House of mons?
A. 650
B. 524
C. 72
D. 651
2.
Who didn’t use to be the British Prime Minister?
A. Margaret Thatcher
B. Winston Churchill
C. Horatio Nelson
D. John Major
3.
By tradition, the leader of the majority party is appointed _____ by the Sovereign in the United Kingdom.
A. Prime Minister
B. Member of Parliament
C. Lord of appeal
D. Speaker of the House
4.
The Tories were the forerunners of _____, which still bears this nickname today.
A. the Labour Party
B. the Conservative Party
C. the Liberal Party
D. the Social Democratic Party
5.
In the United Kingdom, the party which wins the ____ number of seats in the House of mons bees the official Opposition.
A. largest
B. second largest
C. third largest
D. fourth largest
6. The term “British disease” is now often used to characterize Britain’s _____ decline.
A. political
B. educational
C. military
D. economic
7. The 1980s was remembered as the decade of _____.
A. globalization
B. nationalization
C. privatization
D. petition
8. Today, in Britain, ______ is called a “sick” industry.
A. coal mining
B. iron and steel
C. textiles
D. shipbuilding
9. The first steam engine was devised by Thomas Newer at the end of the 17th century, and the Scottish inventor ____ modified and improved the design in 1765.
A. Abraham Darby
B. James Watt
C. John Kay
D. Richard Arkwrightthe
10. _____ created the industrial working class, the proletariat, and it later led to trade unionism.
A. The Chartist Movement
B. The Industrial Revolution
C. The French Revolution
D. The Glorious Revolution
练习题答案及题解:
1. D, 下议院共有651名议员。

2. C, 撒切尔夫人，丘吉尔和梅杰都曾经做过英国首相；而纳尔逊（1758-1805），英国海军统帅，因作战负伤，右眼失明，失去右臂。

后任地中海舰队司令，在特法尔加角海战中大败西班牙联合舰队，本人受重伤阵亡，号称 Viscount Nelson。

3. A, 在英国，按照传统，多数党的领导人由君主任命为首相，首相从本党内部挑选一些领导人担任各部部长职位。

4. B, 托利党是英国保守党的前身。

5. B, 在英国，在下议院中赢得第二席位的政党为反对党，它也有它自己的领导和影子内阁（shadow cabi）。

6. D, 现在“英国病”这一术语经常用来指英国经济上的衰退。

7. C, 正如20世纪40年代被看作是国有化的时代一样，20世纪80年代被看作是私有化的时代。

包括英国石油、航空、钢铁、电讯在内的几乎40% 的国有公司实现了私有化。

8. A, 英国煤矿业被称为生病工业。

英国的煤产量在一战前达到顶点，如今的英国的煤矿业衰退，从而
篇二：专业八级人文知识练习与答案详解31
【练习】
1. “The Graveyard Poets” got the name because ___.
A they chose to live near graveyards
B they often wrote about death and melancholy
C they always wrote about dead people
D they often use “graveyard” as the title
2. It is generally understood that the recurrent theme in many of Thomas Hardy’s novel is ___.
A man against nature
B love and marriage
C social criticism
D fate and destiny
3. The Romantic Period in English literature began with the publication of ___.
A William Blake’s Songs of Innocence
B Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
C Wordsworth’s and Coleridge’s Lyrica l Ballads
D a piece of land
4. It is generally regarded that Keats’ most important and mature poems are in the form of ___.
A ode
B elegy
C epic
D son
5. G.B. Shaw’s play Mrs. Warren’s Profession is a realistic exposure of the ___ in the English society.
A slum landlordism
B inequality between men and women
C political corruption
D economic exploitation of women
6. The Preface to Shakespeare and Lives of the Poets are the works of critic ___.
A G.B. Shaw
B Samuel Johnson
C Ben Johnson
D E.M. Foster
7. The Ring and the Book is a masterpiece of ___.
A Alfred Tennyson
B Robert Browning
C Thomas Hardy
D Ralph Waldo Emerson
8. Matthew Arnold is the writer of ___.
A Dover Beach
B My last Duchess
C Break, Break, Break
D The Eagle
9. The writer of Heart of Darkness is also the one of ___.
A Time of Machine
B Jim
C Lord Jim
D A Passage to India
10. Of Human Bondage is a novel by ___.
A Herbert George Wells
B Arnold Bent
C William Somerset Maugham
D John Galsworthy
1. 选B
“墓畔派”是指18世纪那些描写死亡的哀挽的诗人。

代表作有托马斯.格雷《墓园挽歌》（Elegy
Written in a Country Churchyard），托马斯.巴奈尔的《死亡之夜》（Night Piece on Death），爱德华. 扬《夜思》（Night Thoughts）和罗伯特.布莱尔的《坟墓》（The Grave）。

2. 选D
在哈代（Thomas Hardy）的作品中，他那悲剧色彩的哲学观告诉我们，人生的一切都是命运安排，是不可抗拒的。

人在命运的面前束手无策，无论人们怎样努力，都很难逃脱命运的折磨和戏弄。

3. 选C
威廉.华兹华斯（William Wordsworth），于1798同柯勒律治（Samuel Tayor Coleridge）合作出版了著名的《抒情歌谣集》（Lyrical Ballads），该诗第二版的“序”被认为是英国浪漫主义的宣言。

4. 选A
济慈的代表作品有《夜莺颂》（Ode to a Nightingale），《希腊古瓮颂》（Ode on a Grecian Urn），《忧郁颂》（Ode on Melancholy），《秋颂》（To Autumn）等。

“颂”被认为是济慈最具有代表性和最为成功的诗歌形式。

5. 选D
萧伯纳的剧作《华伦夫人的职业》（Mrs. War ren’s Profession）塑造了一个在经济重压下普通妇女的形象，该剧揭露了一个令人愤怒的事实：在资本主义社会，娼妓业也成了一种剥削方式。

6. 选B
塞缪尔.约翰逊18世纪英国人文主义文学批评的巨匠，《莎士比亚戏剧集序言》（The Preface to Shakespeare），和《诗人传》（Lives of the Poets）是他对文学批评做出的饿突出贡献。

7. 选B
《指环与书》（The Ring and the Boo）是罗伯特.勃郎宁（Robert Browning）的诗作。

8. 选A
《多佛海滩》（Dover Beach）是阿诺德（Matthew Arnold）诗歌中的名篇之一，反映了19世纪西方社会中的宗教信仰在新知识的冲击下普遍沦丧的时代风貌。

9. 选C
《黑暗的心》（Heart of Darkness）和《吉姆老爷》（Lord Jim）都是约瑟夫.康德拉的小说，《吉姆》（Jim）是同时期另一位作家迪亚德.吉卜林的作品。

10.选C
威廉.萨默塞特.毛姆（William Somerset Maugham）的创作深受法国自然主义的影响，他的长篇小说《人性的枷锁》（Of Human Bondage）展现了主人公摆脱精神枷锁的过程。

篇三：专业八级人文知识练习与答案详解38
1. Harriet Beecher Stowe is most famous for her ___ that spoke for blacks.
A Voice of Freedom
B Uncle Tom’s cabin
C Clotel
D The Garies and Their Friends
2. The first novel published by the blacks in ___ Clotel.
A Harriet Beecher Stowe
B Harriet Wilson
C Williams Wells Brown
D John Brown
3. Most of Emily Dickinson’s poems were published
___.
A when she was young
B after her failed love affair
C in her old age
D after her death
4. Palph Waldo Emerson, the American Transcendentalist, argued for the following ideas except ___.
A man’s dependence on himself for spiritual perfection
B Faith in Christianity
C direct intuition of a spiritual God in nature
D the importance of an independent American culture
5. In 1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson made a speech entitled ___ at Harvard, which was hailed by Oliver Wendell Holmes as “Our intellectual Declaration of Independence”.
A “Nature”
B “Self-Reliance”
C “Divinity School Address”
D “The American Scholar”
6. In 1838, Ralph Waldo Emerson made a speech entitled ___ at Harvard, which expressed his disapproval to the faith in church and caused the protest by church.
A “Nature”
B “Self-Reliance”
C “Divinity School Address”
D “The American Scholar”
7. ___ is Mark Twain’s master work, the one book form which as Ernest Hemingway noted, “all modern American literature es”.
A The Gilded Age
B The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
C The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
D The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
8. Which of the following is NOT the fiction written by Mark Twain?
A Innocent Abroad
B The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
C The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
D The Golden Bowl
9. Mark Twain is the pseudonym of ___.
A Samuel Langhorne Clemens
B Hey James
C William Dean Howells
D Stephen Crane
10. The Wings of the Dove was written by ___ who also wrote ___.
A Mark Twain? Tom Sawyer
B Hawthorne? The Scarlet Letter
C Walt Whitman? Song of Myself
D Hey James? A Lady’s Portrait
1. 选B
斯托夫人（Harriet Beecher Stowe）是废奴文学的杰出代表，她的《汤姆大叔的小屋》（Unc le Tom’s cabin）被林肯总统称为“发动了一场大战的小说”。

2. 选C
威廉.布朗于1853年出版的《克罗特尔》被认为是美国黑人发表的第一部小说。

3. 选D
埃米莉.狄金森（Emily Dickinson）的诗歌远远超出了她所在的时代局限，虽然她留给后人1775首诗歌，但其中只有很少的一部分是在他生前发表的。

4. 选B
拉尔夫.华尔多.爱默生（Ralph Waldo Emerson）主张打破神学统治，摈弃以身为中心的请教主义，强调人再宇宙万物中的地位，人能超越感觉获得知识，人有能力凭直觉直接认识真理。

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5. 选D
1837年，拉尔夫.华尔多.爱默生（Ralph Waldo Emerson）在哈佛大学发表了著名的《美国
学者》（The American Scholar）的演讲，指出真正的“美国学者”应当是“思维者”，即具有独立思想的人，而不应该盲从任何约束，讲演引起了轰动。

6. 选C
1837年，拉尔夫.华尔多.爱默生（Ralph Waldo Emerson）在哈佛大学发表了震动人心的《神学院毕业班演说》（Divinity School Address），将批评的矛头直指因循守旧的教会，再获得革命者欢呼的同时，遭到了教会人士的强烈反对和抗议，此后将近30年时间，哈佛大学再也没有邀请他们这位著名的校友回母校演讲。

7. 选D
海明威（Ernest Hemingway）曾给予马克.吐温极高的评价，他断言“一切的当代美国文学都来自于马克.吐温的一本书，即《哈克贝里.费恩》（The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn）??它是所有书中最好的书，它是所有美国作品文学作品的源头，它
之前没有作品可以和它相比，它之后也没有作品可以和它媲美”。

8. 选D
《金碗》（The Golden Bowl）是亨利.詹姆斯（Hey James）的小说。

《傻子国外旅行记》（Innocent Abroad）是马克.吐温的幽默游记。

《卡拉维拉县驰名的跳蛙》(The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County)是马克.吐温发表的第一篇幽默小说。

《汤姆.索亚历险记》（The Adventures of Tom Sawyer）则是马克.吐温一部儿童文学小说。

9. 选A
马克.吐温（Mark Twain）是萨繆尔.郎荷恩.克莱门斯（Samuel Langhorne Clemens）的笔名。

10.选D
《鸽翼》（The Wings of the Dove），《一位女士的画像》（A Lady’s Portrait）都是亨利.詹姆斯（Hey James）的代表作。