英语专八人文知识模拟真题汇总分享

英语专八人文知识03-真题汇总分享真题31. isnotanationallyobservedholidayofAmerica.[A]Christmas[B]EasterSunday[C]ThanksgivingDay[D]IndependenceDay32.TheuniversityofDublinwasnotfoundeduntil .[A]the19thcentury[B]the18thcentury[C]the17thcentury[D]the16thcentury33.The introducedold-agepensionsinNewZealandin1898.[A]LaborParty[B]DemocraticParty[C]LiberalParty[D]ConservativeParty34.Irishcultureexperiencedagoldenagefrom to .[A]theeighthcentury,theeleventhcentury [B]theseventhcentury,theninthcentury[C]thesixthcentury,theeighthcentury [D]thefifthcentury,theseventhcentury35.WhichofthefollowingwritingsisnottheworkbyCharlesDickens?[A]ATaleofTwoCities [B]HardTimes[C]OliverTwist [D]SonsandLovers36. isadramatistwhoholdsthecentralpositioninAmericandramathemodernisticperiod.[A]SinclairLewis[B]EugeneO'Neill[C]ArthurMiller[D]TennesseeWilliams37. isoftenacclaimedliteraryspokesmanoftheJazzAge.[A]ErnestHemingway [B]F.ScottFitzgerald[C]WilliamFaulkner[D]EzraPound38. isarelationshipinwhichawordofacertainclassdeterminestheformofothersintermsofcertaincategories.[A]Concord [B]Immediateconstituent[C]Syntagmaticrelations [D]Government39. studiesthesoundsystemsinacertainlanguage.[A]Phonetics[B]Phonology[C]Semantics[D]Pragmatics40.Alinguisticsituationinwhichtwostandardlanguagesareusedeitherbyanindividualorbyagroupofspeakersiscalled .[A]situationaldialect [B]slang[C]linguistictaboo[D]bilingualism真题31.ThefollowingareproductsimportedbyAustraliafromChinaEXCEPT .[A]food [B]textiles [C]steelproducts [D]electronics32.Scotsregard asthemostimportantfestivalinayear.[A]NearYear'sDay [B]ChristmasDay [C]NewYear'sEve [D]Easter33.TherepublicanmovementhasbeengatheringmomentuminAustraliasince becamePrimeMinisterin1992.[A]JohnHoward [B]BobHawke [C]MalcolmFraser [D]PaulKeating34. wasknownforhisfamousspeech"Ihaveadream".[A]JohnF.Kennedy [B]MartinLutherKing,Jr[C]AbrahamLincoln [D]ThomasJefferson35.Ofallthe18thcenturynovelists,______wasthefirsttosetout,bothintheoryandpractice,towritespecificallya"comicepicinprose",andthefirsttogivethemodernnovelitsstructureandstyle.[A]DanielDefoe [B]SamuelJohnson[C]OliverGoldsmith [D]HenryFeilding36.MarkTwain,oneofthegreatest19thcenturyAmericanwriters,iswellknownforhis .[A]internationaltheme [B]waste-landimagery[C]localcolor [D]symbolism37.Hemingway'swritingstyle,togetherwithhisthemeandthehero,isgreatlyandpermanentlyinfluencedbyhisexperiences .[A]inhischildhood [B]inthewar [C]inAmerica [D]inAfrica38.Englishconsonantscanbeclassifiedintostops,fricatives,nasals,ermsof .[A]mannerofarticulation [B]opennessofmouth[C]placeofarticulation [D]voicing39.Whichofthefollowingwordscancorrecttwoclausesinacoordinatesentence?[A]Through. [B]When. [C]But. [D]If.40. isthesmallestunitoflanguageintermsofrelationshipbetweenexpressionandcontent.[A]Word [B]Morpheme [C]Allomorph [D]Root31.isthecapitalofCanada.A)VancouverB)OttawaC)MontrealD)York32.U.S.presidentsnormallyservea(n)term.A)two-yearB)four-yearC)six-yearD)eight-year33.WhichofthefollowingcitiesisNOTlocatedintheNortheast,U.S.?A)Huston.B)Boston.C)Baltimore.D)Philadelphia.34.isthestatechurchinEngland.A)TheRomanCatholicChurchB)TheBaptistChurchC)TheProtestantChurchD)TheChurchofEngland35.ThenovelEmmaiswrittenby.A)MaryShelley.B)CharlotteBronte.C)ElizabethC.Gaskell.D)JaneAusten.36.WhichofthefollowingisNOTaromanticpoet?A)WilliamWordsworth.B)GeorgeElliot.C)GeorgeG.Byron.D)PercyB.Shelley.37.WilliamSidneyPorter,knownasO.Henry,ismostfamousfor.A)hispoems.B)hisplays.C)hisshortstories.D)hisnovels.38.Syntaxisthestudyof.A)languagefunctions.B)sentencestructures.C)textualorganization.D)wordformation.39.WhichofalefollowingisNOTadistinctivefeatureofhumanlanguage?A)Arbitrariness.B)productivity.C)Culturaltransmission.D)Finiteness.40.Thespeechacttheorywasfirstputforwardby.A)JohnSearle.B)JohnAustin.C)NoamChomsky.D)M.A,K.Halliday.31.ThePresidentsduringtheAmericanCivilWarwas.A.AndrewJackson B.AbrahamLincolnC.ThomasJefferson D.GeorgeWashington32.ThecapitalofNewZealandis.A.ChristchurchB.AucklandC.WellingtonD.Hamilton33.WhowerethenativesofAustraliabeforethearrivaloftheBritishsettlers？A.TheAboriginesB.TheMaoriC.TheIndiansD.TheEskimos34.ThePrimeMinisterinBritainisheadof.A.theShadowCabinetB.theParliamentC.theOppositionD.theCabinet35.Whichofthefollowingwritersisapoetofthe20thcentury？A.T.S.EliotB.D.H.LawrenceC.TheodoreDreiserD.JamesJoyce36.ThenovelForWhomtheBellTollsiswrittenby.A.ScottFitzgeraldB.WilliamFaulknerC.EugeneO’NeilD.ErnestHemingway37._____isdefinedasanexpressionofhumanemotionwhichiscondensedintofourteenlinesA.FreeverseB.SonnetC.OdeD.Epigram38.Whatessentiallydistinguishessemanticsandpragmaticsisthenotionof.A.referenceB.meaningC.antonymyD.context39.Thewords“kid，child，offspring”areexamplesof.A.dialectalsynonymsB.stylisticsynonymsC.emotivesynonymsD.collocationalsynonyms40.Thedistinctionbetweenparoleandlanguewasmadeby.A.HallidayB.ChomskyC.BloomfieldD.Saussure31.ThemajorityofthecurrentpopulationintheUKaredecedentsofallthefollowingtribesrespectivelyEXCEPT_____________.A.theAnglosB.theCeltsC.theJutesD.theSaxons32.TheHeadofStateofCanadaisrepresentedby.A.theMonarchB.thePresidentC.thePrimeMinisterD.theGovernor-general33.TheDeclarationofIndependencewaswrittenby____________.A.ThomasJeffersonB.GeorgeWashingtonC.AlexanderHamiltonD.JamesMadison34.TheoriginalinhabitantsofAustraliawere_______________.A.theRedIndiansB.theEskimosC.theAboriginesD.theMaoris35.WhichofthefollowingnovelswaswrittenbyEmilyBronte?A.OliverTwistB.MiddlemarchC.JaneEyreD.WutheringHeights36.WilliamButlerYeatswasa(n)______poetandplaywright.A.AmericanB.CanadianC.IrishD.Australian37.DeathofaSalesmanwaswrittenby_____________.A.ArthurMillerB.ErnestHemingwayC.RalphEllisonD.JamesBaldwin38._______referstothestudyoftheinternalstructureofwordsandtherulesofwordformation.A.PhonologyB.MorphologyC.SemanticsD.Sociolinguistics39.ThedistinctivefeaturesofaspeechvarietymaybeallthefollowingEXCEPT_________.A.lexicalB.syntacticC.phonologicalD.psycholinguistic40.Thewordtailoncereferredto“thetailofahorse”,butnowitisusedtomean“thetailofanyanimal.”Thisisanexampleof___________.A.wideningofmeaningB.narrowingofmeaningC.meaningshiftD.lossofmeaning31.ThelargestcityinCanadais___________.A.Vancouver.B.Montreal.C.TorontoD.Ottawa.32.AccordingtotheUnitedStatesConstitution,thelegislativepowerisinvestedin.A.theFederalGovernment.B.theSupremeCourt.C.theCabinet.D.theCongress.33.WhichofthefollowingistheoldestsportintheUnitedStates?A.Baseball.B.Tennis.C.Basketball.D.Americanfootball.34.TheheadoftheexecutivebranchinNewZealandis__________.A.thePresident.B.theGovernor-General.C.theBritishmonarchD.thePrimeMinister.35.TheCanterburyTales,acollectionofstoriestoldbyagroupofpilgrimsontheirwaytoCanterbury,isanimportantpoeticworkby.A.WilliamLangland.B.GeoffreyChaucer.C.WilliamShakespeare.D.AlfredTennyson.36.WhowroteTheAmerican?A.HermanMelville.B.NathanielHawthorne.C.HenryJames.D.TheodoreDreiser.37.Allofthefollowingarewell-knownfemalewritersin20th-centuryBritainEXCEPT________.A.GeorgeEliot.B.IrisJeanMurdoch.C.DorisLessing.D.MurielSpark.38.WhichofthefollowingisNOTadesignfeatureofhumanlanguage?A.Arbitrariness.B.Displacement.C.Duality.D.Diachronicity.39.Whattypeofsentenceis“Marklikesfiction,butTimisinterestedinpoetry.”?A.Asimplesentence.B.Acoordinatesentence.C.Acomplexsentence.D.Noneoftheabove.40.Thephenomenonthatwordshavingdifferentmeaningshavethesameformiscalled.A.hyponymy.B.synonymy.C.polysemy.D.homonymy.31.TheHeadofStateofNewZealandis__________.A.thegovernor-general.B.thePrimeMinister.C.thehighcommissioner.D.themonarchoftheUnitedKingdom.32.ThecapitalofScotlandis__________A.Glasgow.B.Edinburgh.C.Manchester.D.London.33.WhowrotetheDeclarationofIndependenceandlaterbecametheU.S.President?A.ThomasJefferson.B.GeorgeWashington.C.ThomasPaine.D.JohnAdams.34.WhichofthefollowingcitiesislocatedontheeasterncoastofAustralia?A.Perth.B.Adelaide.C.Sydney.D.Melbourne.35.OdetotheWestWindwaswrittenby__________A.WilliamBlake.B.WilliamWordsworth.C.SamuelTaylorColeridge.D.PercyB.Shelley.36.Whoamongthefollowingisapoetoffreeverse?A.RalphWaldoEmerson.B.WaltWhitman.C.HermanMelvilleD.TheodoreDreiser.37.ThenovelSonsandLoverswaswrittenby__________A.ThomasHardy.B.JohnGalsworthy.C.D.H.Lawrence.D.JamesJoyce.38.Thestudyofthementalprocessesoflanguagecomprehensionandproductionis__________A.corpuslinguistics.B.sociolinguistics.C.theoreticallinguistics.D.psycholinguistics.39.Aspeciallanguagevarietythatmixeslanguagesandisusedbyspeakersofdifferentlanguagesforpurposesoftradingiscalled__________A.dialect.B.idiolect.C.pidgin.D.register.40.Whenaspeakerexpresseshisintentionofspeaking,suchasaskingsomeonetoopenthewindow,heisperforming__________A.anillocutionaryact.B.aperlocutionaryact.C.alocutionaryact.D.noneoftheabove.31.WhichofthefollowingstatementsinINCORRECT?A.TheBritishconstitutionincludestheMagnaCartaof1215.B.TheBritishconstitutionincludesParliamentaryacts.C.TheBritishconstitutionincludesdecisionsmadebycourtsoflaw.D.TheBritishconstitutionincludesonesinglewrittenconstitution.32.ThefirstcityeverfoundedinCanadais.A.Quebec.B.Vancouver.C.Toronto.D.Montreal.33.WhendidtheAustralianFederationofficiallycomeintobeing?A.1770.B.1788.C.1900.D.1901.34.TheEmancipationProclamationtoendtheslaveryplantationsystemintheSouthoftheU.S.wasissuedby.A.AbrahamLincoln.B.ThomasPaine.C.GeorgeWashington.D.ThomasJefferson.35.________isbestknownforthetechniqueofdramaticmonologueinhispoems.A.WillBlakeB.W.B.YeatsC.RobertBrowningD.WilliamWordsworth36.TheFinancieriswrittenby.A.MarkTwain.B.HenryJames.C.WilliamFaulkner.D.TheodoreDreiser.37.Inliteratureastoryinverseorprosewithadoublemeaningisdefinedas.A.allegory.B.sonnet.C.blankverse.D.rhyme.38.________referstothelearninganddevelopmentofalanguage.A.LanguageacquisitionB.LanguagecomprehensionC.LanguageproductionD.Languageinstruction39.Theword“Motel”comesfrom“motor+hotel”.Thisisanexampleof________inmorphology.A.backformationB.conversionC.blendingD.acronym40.Languageisttoolofcommunication.Thesymbol“HighwayClosed”onahighwayserves.A.anexpressivefunction.B.aninformativefunction.C.aperformativefunction.D.apersuasivefunction.31.ThenorthernmostpartofGreatBritainis_________.A.NorthernIrelandB.ScotlandC.EnglandD.Wales32.Itisgenerallyagreedthat_________werethefirstEuropeanstoreachtheAustralianshores.A.theFrenchB.theGermanC.theBritishD.theDutch33.WhichcountryisknownastheLandofMapleLeaf?A.CanadaB.NewZealandC.GreatBritainD.TheUnitedStates34.Whowrotethefamouspamphlet,TheCommonSense,beforetheAmericanRevolution?A.ThomasJeffersonB.ThomasPaineC.JohnAdamsD.BenjaminFranklin35.Virginiawasanimportantfemale______inthe20thcenturyEngland.A.poetB.biographerC.playwrightD.novelist36.________referstoalongnarrativepoemthatrecordstheadventuresofaheroinanation’shistory.A.BalladB.RomanceC.EpicD.Elegy37.WhichofthefollowingbestexploresAmericanmythinthe20thcentury?A.TheGreatGatsbyB.TheSunAlsoRisesC.TheSoundandtheFuryD.BeyondtheHorizon38._________isdefinedasthestudyoftherelationshipbetweenlanguageandmind.A.SemanticsB.pragmaticsC.cognitivelinguisticsD.sociolinguistics39.AvowelisdifferentfromaconsonantinEnglishbecauseof________.A.absenceofobstructionB.presenceofobstructionC.mannerofarticulationD.placeofarticulation40.Thedefinition“theactofusing,orpromotingtheuseof,severallanguages,eitherbyanindividualspeakerorbyacommunityofspeakers”referto__________.A.PidginB.CreoleC.MultilingualismD.Bilingualism31.TheMaoripeoplearenativesof.A.Australia.B.Canada.C.Ireland.D.NewZealand.32.TheBritishmonarchistheHeadof.A.Parliament.B.State.C.Government.D.Cabinet.33.AmericanscelebrateIndependenceDayon.A.July4th.B.October11th.C.May31st.D.September6th.34.Canadaisboundedonthenorthby.A.thePacificOcean.B.theAtlanticOcean.C.theArcticOcean.D.theGreatLakes.35.WhoistheauthorofTheWasteLand?A.GeorgeBernardShaw.B.W.B.Yeats.C.DylanThomas.D.T.S.Eliot.36.WhichofthefollowingnovelistswroteTheSoundandtheFury?A.WilliamFaulkner.B.ErnestHemingway.C.ScottFitzgerald.D.JohnSteinbeck.37.“Thelettucewaslonelywithouttomatoesandcucumbersforcompany”isanexampleof.A.exaggeration.B.understatement.C.personification.D.synecdoche.38.InEnglishifawordbeginswitha[l]ora[r],thenthenextsoundmustbeavowel.Thisisa(n).A.assimilationrule.B.sequentialrule.C.deletionrule.D.grammarrule.39.Whichofthefollowingisanexampleofclipping?A.APEC.B.Motel.C.Xerox.D.Disco.40.Thetypeoflanguagewhichisselectedasappropriatetoaparticulartypeof”situationiscalled.A.register.B.dialect.C.slang.D.Variety31．ThefullofficialnameofAustraliais.A．TheRepublicofAustralia．B．TheCommonwealthofAustralia．C．TheFederationofAustralia．D．TheUnionofAustralia．32.CanadaiswellknownforallthefollowingEXCEPT.A．itsmineralresources．B．itsforestresources．C．itsfertileandarableland．D．itsheavyindustries．33．IntheUnitedStatescommunitycollegesoffer.A．two-yearprogrammes．B．four-yearprogrammes．C．postgraduatestudies．D．B．A．orB．S．degrees．34.In______，referendainScotlandandWalessetupaScottishparliamentandaWalesassembly．A．B．1946C．1997D.199035．Whichofthefollowingclustersofwordsisanexampleofalliteration?A．Aweakseat．B．Safeandsound．C．Knockandkick．D．Coatandboat．36．WhowroteMrs.Warren’sProfession?A．JohnGalsworthy．B．WilliamButlerYeats．C．T．S．Eliot．D．GeorgeBernardShaw．37．SisterCarriebyTheodoreDreiser