专八人文知识03-09真题.doc

专八人文知识
2009年真题

31. The Head of State of New Zealand is .
[A] the governor-general [B] the Prime Minister
[C] the high commissioner [D] the monarch of the United Kingdom.
32. The capital of Scotland is .
[A] Glasgow [B] Edinburgh [C] Manchester [D] London
33. Who wrote the Declaration of Independence and later became the U.S. President?
[A] Thomas Jefferson. [B] George Washington. [C] Thomas Paine. [D] John Adams.
34. Which of the following cities is located on the eastern coast of Australia?
[A] Perth. [B] Adelaide. [C] Sydney. [D] Melbourne.
35. Ode to the West Wind was written by .
[A] William Blake [B] William Wordsworth
[C] Samuel Taylor Coleridge [D] Percy B. Shelley
36. Who among the following is a poet of free verse?
[A] Ralph Waldo Emerson. [B] Walt Whitman.
[C] Herman Melville. [D] Theodore Dreiser.
37. The novel Sons and Lovers was written by .
[A] Thomas Hardy [B] John Galsworthy [C] D.H. Lawrence [D] James Joyce
38. The study of the mental processes of language comprehension and production is .
[A] corpus linguistics [B] sociolinguistics
[C] theoretical linguistics [D] psycholinguistics
39. A special language variety that mixes languages and is used by speakers of different languages for purposes of trading is called .
[A] dialect [B] idiolect [C] pidgin [D] register
40. When a speaker expresses his intention of speaking, such as asking someone to open the window, he is performing .
[A] an illocutionary act [B] a perlocutionary act [C] a locutionary act [D] none of the above

2008年真题
31. The largest city in Canada is .
A. Vancouver B. Montreal C. Toronto D. Ottawa
32. According to the United States Constitution, the legislative power is invested in .
A. the Federal Government B. the Supreme Court
C. the Cabinet D. the Conress
33. Which of the following is the oldest sport in the United States?
A. Baseball. B. Tennis. C. Basketball. D. American football.
34. The head of the executive branch in New Zealand is .
A. the President B. the Governor-General
C. the British monarch D. the Prime Minister
35. The Caterbury Tales, a collection of stories told by a group of pilgrims on their way to Canterbury, is an important poetic work by .
A. Willian Langland B. Geoffrey C. William Shakespeare D. Alfred Tennyson
36. Who wrote The American?
A. Herman Melville. B. Nathaniel Hawthorne. C. Henry James. D. Theodore Dreiser.
37. All of the following are well-know female writers in 20th-century Britain EXCEPT .
A. George Eliot B. Iris Jean Murdoch C. Doris Lessing D. Muriel Spark
38. Which of the following is NOT a design feature of human language?
A. Arbitrariness. B. Displacement. C. Duality. D.Diachronicity.
39. What type of sentence is "Mark likes fiction, but Tim is interested in poetry"?
A. A simple sentence. B. A coordinate sentence. C. A complex sentence. D. None of the above.
40. The phenomenon that words having different meanings have the same form is called .
A. hyponymy B. synonymy C. Polysemy D.homonymy

2007年真题
31. The majority of the current population in the UK are decedents of all the following tribes respectively
EXCEPT .
[A] the Anglos [B] the Celts [C] the Jutes [D] the Saxons
32. The Head of State of Canada is represented by .
[A] the Monarch [B] the President [C] the Prime Minister [D] the Governor-general
33. The Declaration of Independence was written by .
[A] Thomas Jefferson [B] George Washington
[C] Alexander Hamilton [D] James Madison
34. The original inhabitants of Australia were .
[A] the Red Indians [B] the Eskimos [C] the Aborigines [D] the Maoris
35. Which of the following novels was written by Emily Brontë?
[A] Oliver Twist. [B] Middlemarch. [C] Jane Eyre. [D] Wuthering Heights.
36. William Butler Yeats was a(n) poet and playwright.
[A] American [B] Canadian [C] Irish [D] Australian
37. Death of a Salesman was written by .
[A] Arthur Miller [B] Ernest Hemingway
[C] Ralph Ellis on [D] James Baldwin
38. refers to the study of the internal structure of words and the rules of word formation.
[A] Phonology [B] Morphology [C] Semantics [D] Sociolinguistics
39. The distinctive features of a speech variety may be all the following EXCEPT .
[A] lexical [B] syntactic [C] phonological [D] psycholinguistic
40. The word "tail" once referred to "the tail of a horse", but now it is used to mean "the tail of any animal." This is an example of .
[A] widening of meaning [B] narrowing of meaning
[C] meaning shift [D] loss of meaning

2006年真题
31. The President during the American Civil War was .
[A] Andrew Jackson [B] Abraham Lincoln [C] Thomas Jefferson [D] George Washington
32. The capital of New Zealand is .
[A] Christchurch [B] Auckland [C] Wellington [D] Hamilton
33. Who were the natives of Australia before the arrival of the British settlers?
[A] The Aborigines. [B] The Maori. [C] The Indians. [D] The Eskimos.
34. The Prime Minister in Britain is head of .
[A] the Shadow Cabinet [B] the Parliament [C] the Opposition [D] the Cabinet
35. Which of the following writers is a poet of the 20th century?
[A] T. S. Eliot. [B] D.H. Lawrence. [C] Theodore Dreiser. [D] James Joyce.
36. The novel For Whom the Bell Tolls is written by .
[A] Scott Fitzgerald [B] William Faulkner [C] Eugene O'Neill [D] Ernest Hemingway
37. is defined as an expression of human emotion which is condensed into fourteen lines.
[A] Free verse [B] Sonnet [C] Ode [D] Epigram
38. What essentially distinguishes semantics and pragmatics is the notion of .
[A] reference [B] meaning [C] antonymy [D] context
39. The words "kid, child, offspring" are examples of .
[A] dialectal synonyms [B] stylistic synonyms
[C] emotive synonyms [D] collocational synonyms
40. The distinction between parole and langue was made by .
[A] Halliday [B] Chomsky [C] Bloomfield [D] Saussure

2005年真题

31. is the capital of Canada.
[A] Vancouver [B] Ottawa [C] Montreal [D] York
32. U.S. presidents normally serve a (n) term.
[A] two-year [B] four-year [C] six-year [D] eight-year
33. Which of the following cities is NOT located in the Northeast, U.S.?
[A] Huston. [B] Boston. [C]Baltimore. [D] Philadelphia.
34. is the state church in England.
[A] The Roman Catholic Church [B] The Baptist Church
[C] The Protestant Church [D] The Church of England
35. The novel Emma is written by .
[A] Mary Shelley [B] Charlotte Brontë [C] Elizabeth C. Gaskell [D] Jane Austen
36. Which of the following is NOT a romantic poet?
[A] William Wordsworth. [B] George Elliot.
[C] George C. Byron. [D] Percy B. Shelley.
37. William Sidney Porter, known as O. Henry, is most famous for .
[A] his poems [B] his plays [C] his short stories [D] his novels
38. Syntax is the study of .
[A] language functions [B] sentence structures [C] textual organization [D] word formation
39. Which of the following is NOT a distinctive feature of human language?
[A] Arbitrariness. [B] Productivity.
[C] Cultural transmission. [D] Finiteness.
40. The speech act theory was first put forward by .
[A] John Searle [B] John Austin [C] Noam Chomsky [D] M.A.K. Halliday

2004年真题
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 .
[A] international theme [B] waste-land imagery
[C] local color [D] symbolism
37. Hemingway's writing style, together with his theme and the hero, is greatly and permanently influenced by his experiences .
[A] in his childhood [B] in the war [C] in America [D] in Africa
38. English consonants can be classified into stops, fricatives, nasals, etc. in terms of .
[A] manner of articulation [B] openness of mouth
[C] place of articulation [D] voicing
39. Which of the following words can correct two clauses in a coordinate sentence?
[A] Through. [B] When. [C] But. [D] If.
40. is the smallest unit of language in terms of relationship between expression and content.
[A] Word [B] Morpheme [C] Allomorph [D] Root

2003年真题
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