专八2003-2015年人文知识真题及答案

2003年英语专八人文知识真题

31. is not a nationally observed holiday of America.

[A] Christmas [B] Easter Sunday [C] Thanksgiving Day [D] Independence Day

32. The university of Dublin was not founded until .

[A] the 19th century [B] the 18th century [C] the 17th century [D] the 16th century

33. The introduced old-age pensions in New Zealand in 1898.

[A] Labor Party [B] Democratic Party [C] Liberal Party [D] Conservative Party

34. Irish culture experienced a golden age from to .

[A] the eighth century, the eleventh century [B] the seventh century, the ninth century

[C] the sixth century, the eighth century [D] the fifth century, the seventh century

35. Which of the following writings is not the work by Charles Dickens?

[A] A Tale of Two Cities [B] Hard Times

[C] Oliver Twist [D] Sons and Lovers

36. is a dramatist who holds the central position in American drama the modernistic period.

[A] Sinclair Lewis [B] Eugene O'Neill [C] Arthur Miller [D] Tennessee Williams

37. is often acclaimed literary spokesman of the Jazz Age.

[A] Ernest Hemingway [B] F. Scott Fitzgerald [C] William Faulkner [D] Ezra Pound

38. is a relationship in which a word of a certain class determines the form of others in terms of certain categories.

[A] Concord [B] Immediate constituent

[C] Syntagmatic relations [D] Government

39. studies the sound systems in a certain language.

[A] Phonetics [B] Phonology [C] Semantics [D] Pragmatics

40. A linguistic situation in which two standard languages are used either by an individual or by a group of speakers is called .

[A] situational dialect [B] slang [C] linguistic taboo [D] bilingualism

2004年英语专八人文知识真题

31. The following are products imported by Australia from China EXCEPT .

[A] food [B] textiles [C] steel products [D] electronics

32. Scots regard as the most important festival in a year.

[A] Near Year's Day [B] Christmas Day [C] New Year's Eve [D] Easter

33. The republican movement has been gathering momentum in Australia since became Prime Minister in 1992.

[A] John Howard [B] Bob Hawke [C] Malcolm Fraser [D] Paul Keating

34. was known for his famous speech "I have a dream".

[A] John F. Kennedy [B] Martin Luther King, Jr

[C] Abraham Lincoln [D] Thomas Jefferson

35. Of all the 18th century novelists, ______ was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a "comic epic in prose", and the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.

[A] Daniel Defoe [B] Samuel Johnson

[C] Oliver Goldsmith [D] Henry Feilding

36. Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his .