英语专业八级备考辅导人文知识模拟练习题

英语专业八级备考辅导人文知识模拟练习题(12)，专八人文知识从命题来看并不是很难。

大多都是英语专业本科阶段应该了解的常识性问题，但涉及的范围很宽泛，备考时面对英美文学﹑文化﹑及语言学众多资料无从下手，这就要求考生对每一章的基本概念都要清楚，善于高度提炼，把书看薄。

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 Lyrical 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 sonnet
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 Bennett
C William Somerset Maugham
D John Galsworthy
参考答案：
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. Warren’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。

英语专业八级备考辅导人文知识模拟练习题(11)，专八人文知识从命题来看并不是很难。

大多都是英语专业本科阶段应该了解的常识性问题，但涉及的范围很宽泛，备考时面对英美文学﹑文化﹑及语言学众多资料无从下手，这就要求考生对每一章的基本概念都要清楚，善于高度提炼，把书看薄。

1、“Pamela”by Samuel Richardson is written in forms of ____.
A diary
B letter
C autobiography
D reminiscences
2、“Clarissa harlowe” by Samuel Richardson is written in forms of ____.
A diary
B letter
C autobiography
D reminiscences
3、The adventure of Roderick random is written by___.
A Samuel Richardson
B Tobias smolett
C Lawrence sterne
D henry fielding
4、The life and opinions of Tristan shandy is written by___.
A Samuel Richardson
B Tobias smolett
C Lawrence sterne
D henry fielding
5、____ named his own realistic novels as “comic epic in prose”.
A Henry fielding
B Charles dickens
C jack London
D Tobias smolett
6、“Lyrical ballads” were written by___ and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
A Robert burns
B Robert southey
C William wordsworth
D percy bysshe shelley
7、George Gordon byron was most famous for_____.
A don juan
B ode to the west wind
C kubla khan
D ode to a nightingale
8、George Gordon byron created a “Byronic hero” firstly in his____.
A Prometheus unbound
B childe herald’s pilgrimage
C kubla khan
D ode on a Grecian urn
9、Prometheus unbound was written by___ who also wrote____.
A George Gordon byron …childe herald’s pilgrimage
B percy bysshe shelley..ode to a nightingale
C George Gordon byron …ode to west wind
D percy bysshe shelley…ode to west wind
10、John keats is the author of____.
A ode to a skylark and ode to a nightingale
B ode on a Grecian urn and ode to west wind
C ode on a Grecian urn and ode to a nightingale
D ode to west wind and ode to a nightingale
参考答案：
1 B Samuel Richardson用书信体创作了Pamela 和Clarisse harlowe。

2 B Samuel Richardson用书信体创作了Pamela 和Clarisse harlowe。

3 B Tobias smolett 是十八世纪中叶颇具特色的小说家，他写的蓝登传继承了欧洲流浪汉小说的传统。

4 C Lawrence sterne打破传统小说的叙事模式，被称为世界文学中最典型的小说。

5 A Henry fielding将自己作品命为“喜剧性的散文体史诗”。

6 C William wordsworth同Samuel Taylor Coleridge合作出版了著名的《抒情歌谣集》。

7 A 唐璜是拜伦的代表作。

8 B 拜伦的长诗中有许多拜伦式英雄。

childe herald’s pilgrimage中也有。

9 D 雪莱的代表作有西风颂，云雀颂，云彩和解放了的普罗米修斯。

10 C 济慈代表作有夜莺颂和希腊古瓮颂
1、In Britain, ___ has the ultimate authority of legislation.
A the Queen
B the House of Commons
C the House of Lords
D the Prime Minister
2、The three largest cities in Canada do NOT include.
A Toronto
B Quebec
C Ottawa
D Vancouver
3、Aboriginal culture in Australia is said to be more than ___ years old.
A 20,000
B 30,000
C 40,000
D 50,000
4、 It is known that Irish landscape in featured by ___.
A bogs
B mountains
C grassland
D rivers
5、The following plays are comedies by Shakespeare EXCEPT ___.
A A Midsummer Night’s Dream
B As You Like It
C The Merchant of Venice
D Romeo and Juliet
6、“The novel is structured around the discovery of the hero’s origin.”Probably this refers to the novel ___.
A Wuthering Heights
B The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
C David Copperfield
D Gulliver’s Travels
7、___ was considered to be the greatest dramatist in the 18th century.
A Henry Fielding
B Laurence Sterne
C Oliver Goldsmith
D Richard B. Sheridan
8、The branch of linguistics that studies how context influences the way speakers interpret sentences is called ___.
A pragmatics
B semantics
C sociolinguistics
D psycholinguistics
9、Which of the following words can connect two clauses in a coordinate sentence?
A Through
B When
C But
D If
10、Which of the following is NOT considered part of semantic change?
A Semantic broadening
B Compounding
C Semantic narrowing
D Semantic shift
参考答案：
1. 选B.在英国，下院拥有最高立法权.本题术语发展现状类问题.
2. 选C.加拿大三大城市不包括渥太华.本题术语发展现状类问题.
3. 选C.据说澳大利亚的土著文化拥有四千多年的历史.本题属于文化传统类问题.
4. 选A.众所周知，爱尔兰地貌特点是沼泽地.本题属于地理类问题.
5. 选D.除了《罗密欧与朱丽叶》之外，其他下列戏剧皆为莎士比亚的喜剧作品.本题属于英国文学类问题.
6. 选B.“小说结构是围绕主人公的身世发现来安排的”这句话可能是指小说《弃儿汤姆.琼斯的来历》.本题属于英国文学类问题.
7. 选D.理查德.B.谢立丹被认为是18世纪最伟大的剧作家.本题属于英国文学类问题.
8. 选A.这道题检查考生是否知晓语用学的含义.
9. 选C.这套题检查考生对别列举的了解.
10.选B.这道题检查考生对语义变化内容的了解.
1、The leading ___ state in the United States is Wisconsin.
A wheat
B rice
C dairy
D maize
2、The city of ___, which was formerly known as Port Jackson, is the place of the earliest colonial settlement in Australia.
A Melbourne
B Sydney
C Perth
D Darwin
3、According to statistics, ___ employer in Australia is the manufacturing industry.
A the fourth largest
B the third largest
C the second largest
D the largest
4、The most important economic activity in Canada is ___.
A mining
B fishing
C farming
D manufacturing
5、 Wordsworth’s poetry, divided by the subjects, falls into two major groups: one about ___ and the other about ___..
A nature, human life
B society, human nature
C human life, social system
D universe, human spirit
6、The reading of the first chapter of the novel Pride and Prejudice has led the reader to the understanding of Mrs. Bennet as a woman of ___.
A simple character and mean understanding
B intricate character and short temper
C simple character and good education
D intricate character and outstanding talent
7、As a romantic poet, William Wordsworth advocated the following EXCEPT ___.
A the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings
B the use of colloquialism spoken by the masses
C elegant wordings and inflated figures of speech
D the humble and rustic life as subject matter
8、The study of language acquisition is generally known as ___.
A theoretical linguistics
B psycholinguistics
C applied linguistics
D historical linguistics
9、The history of English is usually divided into ___ major periods.
A three
B four
C five
D two
10、The morpheme “scope” in the common word “telescope” is a(n) ___.
A bound morpheme
B bound form
C inflectional morpheme
D free morpheme
答案详解：
1. 选C。

威斯康辛是美国乳品加工业大州。

本题属于发展现状类问题。

2. 选B。

曾冠名为杰克逊港的悉尼是澳大利亚最早殖民居住地所在。

本题属于历史类问题。

3. 选B。

据统计，澳大利亚第三大类雇主也为生产制造业。

本题属于发展现状类问题。

4. 选D。

在加拿大，最重要的经济活动是生产制造。

本题属于发展现状类问题。

5. 选A。

华兹华斯的诗歌按主题可分为两大类：一类是关于大自然的;另一类是关于人类生活的。

本题属于英国文学类问题。

6. 选A。

读完小说《傲慢与偏见》的第一章节，读者就会明白贝内特夫人是一个性格简理解力差的女人。

本题属于英国文学类问题。

7. 选C。

车了不主张使用华丽辞藻和夸张比喻之外，浪漫派诗人威廉.华兹华斯赞同下列诸观点。

8. 选C。

这道题考查考生对二语习得研究范畴的了解。

9. 选A。

英语语言的发展历史一般分为三个阶段：古英语阶段、中世纪英语阶段和现代英语阶段。

10.选D。

这道题考查考生对自由语素的理解。

1 What country is known as the Land of Maple Leaf?
A United States of America
B United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
C New Zealand
D Canada
2 The national anthem of Canada is ____
A Canada The Beautiful
B O Canada
C God Defend Canada
D Advance Canada Fair
3 The capital city of Canada is ____
A Montreal
B Toronto
C Albert
D Ottawa
4 According to the Official Language of Act of Canada, there are two official language in this country: they are____
A English and Spanish
B English and Portuguese
C English and French
D English and Celtic
5Canada is a world ____producer of nickel, zinc, and asbestos……
A primary
B second
C third
D fourth
6 The highest peak in Canada is ____, which is the Yukon Territory of northwest Canada.
A. Mount Lawrence
B. Mount Superior
C. Mount Logan
D Mount Huron
7 St. Lawrence and River Columbia are shared by both ____
A. America and Mexico
B. America and Canada
C. America and Cuba
D. America and Brazil
8 Apart from Paris, France, Montreal is regarded as the largest____city in the world, known as “Paris the Second”.
A. Spanish-speaking
B. Portuguese-speaking
C. German-speaking
D. French-speaking
9____, the third largest city in Canada, is well known as Ice-Free Harbor.
A. Montreal
B. Quebec
C. Toronto
D. Vancouver
10.Canada is the world’s ____country in terms of land area.
A. largest
B. second largest
C. third largest
D. fourth largest
答案详解：
1.D 加拿大国树为枫树，期国徽和国旗上都有枫叶的图案，因此长期以来枫叶被视作加拿大的象征。

2.B 加拿大国歌是《啊!加拿大》。

3.D加拿大首都是渥太华，位于安大略省东南部与魁北克省交界处，是加拿大的经济政治中心，同时也是加拿大的文化中心。

4.C 1867年的《不列颠北美法案》将英法两种语言定为加拿大联邦政府和魁北克省社会公共机构的官方语言。

1968年的《官方语言法案》规定英语和法语均为加拿大官方语言。

5.A 加拿大是世界锌和石棉的第一大生产国，钾碱产量居世界第二，黄金产量居第三，铜产量位居第四。

6.C 加拿大最高峰为洛根峰，海拔6050米。

7.B 美加边境有两条国际河流，一条是哥伦比亚河，另一条是圣劳伦斯河。

8.D 蒙特利尔的法裔加拿大占全市人口的三分之二，是除了法国巴黎以外世界上最大的法语城市，素有“小巴黎”之称。

9.D温哥华总人口190万，是加拿大第三大城市和工商业中心，也是不列颠哥伦比亚区的最大城市、加拿大西海岸主要港口和横贯加拿大全景铁路线的终点。

它还是一个天然良港，终年不结冰。

10.B 加拿大位于美国以北，是世界上仅次于俄国的第二大国家。

1. In area, the United States is the ____ largest country in the world.
A 2nd
B 3rd
C 4th
D 5th
2.The 50th state in America is ____
A Alaska
B Texas
C Hawaii
D Rhode Island
3. Mauna Loa, the world’s largest active volcano, is located in ____
A Hawaii
B Alaska
C Texas
D Perth
4. Richard Nixon resigned in 1974 because of ____.
A the Great Depression
B the Black Power Movement
C the Watergate Scandal
D the Isolation policy
5.All the following universities are located in New England EXCEPT____
A Yale
B Harvard
C MIT
D Berkeley
6.The United States has less than 6% of the world’s population; yet it produces about ____ of the total world output.
A 20%
B 25%
C 30%
D 35%
7.What forms a natural boundary between Mexico and the United States?
A The Rio Grande River
B The southern Rocky Mountains
C The Colorado River
D The Gulf of California
8. The US formally entered the Second World War in ____
A 1937
B 1939
C1941
D 1943
9. The Presidents during the American Civil War was .
A Andrew Jackson
B Abraham Lincoln
C Thomas Jefferson
D George Washington
10 The emblem of the Democratic Party is ____.
A elephant
B donkey
C bear
D bull
答案详解：
1.C 按领土面积计算：美国是继俄罗斯，加拿大，中国之后的第四名。

2.C 1959年，Alasica和Hawaii分别为第四十九个和第五十个加入美国的州。

3.A Mauna Loa(摩纳罗亚山)是世界上最大的活火山。

位于美国Hawaii(夏威夷)。

4.C 尼克松总统辞职是由于轰动一时的丑闻“水门事件”。

水门事件指美国共和党政府在1972年总统竞选运动中的非法活动暴露后的政治丑闻。

5.D Berkeley(伯克利)，是加利福尼亚大学分院，位于美国加利福尼亚西部。

而新英格兰地区包括美国的六个州，由北至南分别为：缅因州、新罕布夏州、佛蒙特州、麻萨诸塞州、罗德岛、康乃狄克州。

6.B 美国人口低于世界人口总值的6%，但是美国经济生产总值占世界25%，是高度工业化国家。

7.A The Rio Grand River(格兰德河)形成了美国与墨西哥的自然分界线。

8.C 1941年的珍珠港事件把美国带入了第二次世界战争，与苏联，英国共同对战法西斯。

9.B Abraham Lincoln是美国第十六届总统，带领美国人走过美国内战，解放奴隶，但是在战争结束不到一周被暗杀。

10.B 19世纪70年代，在美国的《哈泼斯周刊》上，曾先后出现了政治漫画家托马斯·纳斯特的两幅画，分别以长耳朵的驴和长鼻子的象比拟美国民主党和共和党。

后来，纳斯特又在一幅画中同时画进了象和驴，比喻当时的两党竞选。

自那以后，驴和象就逐渐成为美国两大党的象征，两党也分别以驴、象作为党徽的标记。

2011年英语专业八级人文知识模拟练习题(6)，Jonathan Swift的Gulliver's Travels （《格列弗游记》）中yahoo暗指人类，集人类丑陋面于一身，服务于动物的一类生物。

1.The Old Man and the Sea is one of the great works by ____
A Jack London
B Charles Dickens
C Samuel Coleridge
D Ernest Hemingway
2.In which novel can "Yahoo" be found?
A John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress
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B Edmund Spencer's The Faerie Queen
C Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels
D Henry Fielding's Tom Jones
3.The Catcher in the Rye is written by ____
A J.D. Salinger
B Jack London
C Flannery O'Connor
D Saul Bellow
4.The image of the famous "henpecked husband" is created by____
A Washington Irving
B Fennimore Cooper
C Edith Wharton
D William Dean Howells
5.The literary spokesman of the Jazz is often thought to be ____
A O'Neil
B Pound
C Robert Frost
D Scott Fitzgerald
6.____ is the most important person of the transcendental club.
A Hawthorn
B Whitman
C Emerson
D Hemingway
7. The main theme of Emily Dickinson is the following except____
A fridendship
B love and marriage
C life and death
D war and peace
8.Robert Frost is a famous ____
A novelist
B playwright
C poet
D literary critic
9.Dover Beach is written by ____
A Robert Browning
B Alfred Tennyson
C Mathew Arnold
D Dylan Thomas
10.The period from 1865-1914 has been referred to as the ____ in the literary history of the United States.
A Age of Realism
B Age of Clasicalism
C Age of Romanticism
D Age of Renaissance
答案详解：
1.D 《老人与海》是海明威的作品。

2.C Jonathan Swift的Gulliver's Travels(《格列弗游记》)中yahoo暗指人类，集人类丑陋面于一身，服务于动物的一类生物。

3.A The Catcher in the Rye(《麦田里的守望者》)是J.D. Salinger(J.D. 赛琳格)的名著。

4.A henpecked husband 是指“怕老婆的男人”，改典型形象出自Washington Irving 的Rip Van Winkle。

5.D 二十世纪出现Jazz Age，这一代的年轻人物欲膨胀，沉迷酒色。

Scott Fitzgerald 的 Great Gatsby《了不起的盖茨比》根据时代特征，对深深讽刺了所谓的美国梦。

6.C Emerson是超验主义的重要代表，所著Nature《论自然》代表了他的哲学观。

7.D Emily Dickinson(1709-1784)，美国女诗人，终生未嫁。

主要诗歌包括：I Could Not Sto for Death还有，I'm Nobody. Who Are You?
诗歌主题为：爱情，自然，友谊，死亡与不朽。

8.C Robert Frost是十九世纪的美国诗人，后因父亲过世已经英国，在新英格兰享有很高名望。

主要作品有：The Road Not Taken，Mending Wall。

9.C Dover Beach(《多弗的海滩》)是Mathew Arnold 的作品。

10.A 1865-1914，也就是美国内战结束之后，第一次世界大战爆发之前。

这个时候涌现的作家，比如Mark Twain刻画出美国经济政治发展引发的社会现实问题，包括“Gold Rush”。