专八人文知识练习题6

11. In which novel can “Yahoo” be found?

答案：Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels

12. The Victorian age was largely an age of ____, eminently represented by Dickens and Thackeray．

答案：critical realism

13. Mark Twain shaped the world‟s view of American and made a combination of ____ and serious literature．

答案：American folk humor

14. Who was the first American to achieve an international literary reputation after the Revolutionary War?

答案：Washington Irving．

15. Paradise Lost is a masterpiece by ____．

答案：John Milton

16. I have a Dream is addressed by ____．

答案：Martin Luther King

17. Which of the following is a poem by Emily Dickinson?

A. Song of Myself

B. The Raven．

C. A Red Red Rose

D. Because I Could Not Stop for Death

答案：D. Because I Could Not Stop for Death

18. Eugene O‟Neill is an American ____．

答案：playwright

19. The Romantic Age in England came to an end with the death of ____．

答案：Walter Scott

20. In the works of aestheticism, the theory of “art for art‟s sake” is advocated by ____．

答案：0scar Wilde

21. Whose works are characterized by stream-of-consciousness?

答案：James Joyce

22. The most famous work by Chaucer is ____．

答案：The Canterbury Tales

23. The period from 1865-1914 has been referred to as the ____ in the literary history of the United States．

答案：Age of Realism

24. “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”is an epigrammatic line by ____．

答案：P．B．Shelley

25. Which of the following is NOT Shakespeare‟s tragedy?

A. The Merchant of Venice．

B. King Lear

C. Hamlet

D. Othello

26. Leaves of Grass is written by ____．

答案：Walt Whitman

27. William Mak epeace Thackeray‟s most famous work is ____．

答案：Vanity Fair

28. Dover Beach is written by ____．

答案：Matthew Arnold

29. The period of Old English Literature refers to ____．

答案：449-1066

30. Moby Dick is the most important work by ____．

答案：Herman Melville

31. O. Henry earned his fame mainly for his ____．

答案：short stories

32. The typical feature of Robert Browning‟s poetry is the ____．

答案：dramatic monologue

33. ____ is the most famous novel of Francis Scott Fitzgerald?

答案：The Great Gatsby

34. Morte d‟ Arthur is a famous work by ____．

答案：Thomas Malory

1. Which of the following statements about language is NOT true?

A. Language is a system．

B. Language is symbolic．

C. Animals also have languages．

D. Language is arbitrary．

答案：C. Animals also have languages．

2．Which of the following choices is NOT a constituent?

A. I like the song．

B. I

C. song

D. 1ike

答案：A. I like the song.

3. Of the following sound combinations, only is ____ permissible．

A. kibl

B. bkil

C. ilkb

D. ilbk

答案：A. kibl

4. The relation between the determiner ……this” and the noun “man” in the phrase ……this man‟‟ is ____．

答案：concord

5. The sentence that has an NP and a VP is mostly shown in a ____ formula “S→*NP+VP”．

答案：1inear

6. “Big” and “small” are a pair of ____ opposites．

答案：gradable

7. Which of the following phrases is exocentric?

A. women and men

B. on the table

C. a clever boy

D. an ugly man

答案：B. on the table

8. Arbitrariness of language was first discussed by ____．

答案：Saussure

9. Which pair of words is NOT a minimal pair?

A. cat/bat

B. put/but

C. jig/pig

D. sit/bit

答案：B. put/but

10. Which function is the major role of language?

答案：Informative

11. If two sounds are in complementary distribution, they are ____of the same phoneme．