2023年专八人文知识真题及答案.doc

 2023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
2023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 .
　　[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
2023年英语专八人文知识真题
　　　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
参照答案：
BBADA BCBDB
2023年英语专八人文知识真题
　　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
　 参照答案　　BCADA DBDBD
2023年英语专八人文知识真题
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
　　参照答案 CDACD CABDA
2023年英语专八人文知识真题
　　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 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
　　参照答案　　BCADBBDACD
2023年英语专八人文知识真题
　　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
答案
　　31、D the monarch of the United Kingdom 32、B Edinburgh. 33、AThomas Jefferson. 34、C Sydney 35、D Percy B. Shelley36、B Walt Whitman. 37、C D.H. Lawrence. 38、D psycholinguistics. 39、C pidgin. 40、A an illocutionary act.

2023年英语专八人文知识真题
　　31. Which of the following is INCORRECT?
　　A. the British Constitution includes the Magna Carta of 1215
　　B. the British Constitution includes Parliamentary acts
　　C. the British Constitution includes decisions made by courts of law
　　答案D：The British Constitution includes one single written constitution
　　32. The first city ever founded in Canada is
　　A. Quebec B. Vancouver C. Toronto D. Montreal
　　答案A：Quebec
　　33. When did the Australian Federation officially come into being?
　　A. B. 1788C. 1900D. 1901
　　答案D：1901
　　34. The Emancipation Proclamation to end the plantation slavery in the south of US was issued by
　　A. Abraham Lincoln B. Thomas Paine C. George Washington D. Thomas Jefferson
　　答案A：Abraham Lincoln
　　35.Who was best known for the technique of dramatic monologue in his poems?
　　A. Will Blake B. W.B.Yeats C. Robert Browning D. William Wordsworth
　　答案C：Robert Browning
　　36. The Financier was written by
　　A. Mark Twain B. Henry James C.
　　答案D：Theodore Dreiser
　　37. In literature a story in verse or prose with a double meaning is defined as
　　A. allegory B. sonnet C. blank verse D. rhyme
　　答案A：Allegory
　　38.____ refers to the learning and development of a language
　　A. language acquisition B. language comprehension C. language production D. language introduction
　　答案A：language acquisition
　　39. The word “motel” comes from “motor – hotel”. This is an example of “…” in morphology.
　　A. backformation B. conversion C. blending D. acronym
　　答案C：blending
　　40.Language is tool of communication, the symbol “highway closed” serves
　　A. B.C. a performative function D. a persuasive function
　　答案B： informative function
2023年英语专八人文知识真题
　31. The northernmost part of Great Britain is _______.
　　A. Northern Ireland B. Wales C. England D. Scotland
　　　　TIP：选D。英国最北端是苏格兰。
　32. It is generally agreed that _______ were the first Europeans to reach Australia's shores.
　　A. the French B. the Germans C. the British D. the Dutch
TIP：选D。1623年，荷兰航海家Willem Janszoon在约克角西岸登陆澳洲。1770年，英国人库克船长登上澳洲大陆并宣布它为英国领土。
　　33. Which country is known as the Land of Maple Leaf?
　　A. Canada. B. New Zealand. C. Great Britain. D. The United States of America.　
　　TIP：选A。加拿大被誉为“枫叶之国”。
　　34. Who wrote the famous pamphlet, The Common Sense, before the American Revolution?
　　A. Thomas Jefferson. B. Thomas Paine. C. John Adams. D. Benjamin Franklin.
　　TIP：选B。《常识》是托马斯•潘恩在美国革命之前撰写旳。
　　35. Virginia Woolf was an important female ________ in the 20th-century England.
　　A. poet B. biographer C. playwright D. novelist
　　TIP：选D。弗吉尼亚•伍尔芙是英国著名小说家，第二次世界大战期间，她是伦敦文学界旳关键人物。
　　36. ______ refers to a long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero in a nation's history.
　　A. Ballad B. Romance C. Epic D. Elegy
　　TIP：选C。epic是“史诗、叙事诗”旳意思。
　　37. Which of the following best explores American myth in the 20th century?
　　A. The Great Gatsby. B. The Sun Also Rises. C. The Sound and the Fury.
　　D. Beyond the Horizon.
　TIP：选A《天边外》是尤金•奥尼尔旳著名戏剧作品，《太阳照常升起》是海明威旳代表作，《喧哗与骚动》则是福克纳旳代表作。《了不起旳盖茨比》旳作者是菲茨杰拉德旳作品，反应了美国20世纪23年代到30年代旳社会现实，对美国神话进行了另类诠释和解读。 38. _______ is defined as the study of the relationship between language and mind.
　　A. Semantics B. Pragmatics 　C. Cognitive linguistics D. Sociolinguistics
　　TIP：选C。认知语言学认为，语言旳创立、学习及运用，基本上都必须可以通过人类旳认知而加以解释，由于认知能力是人类知识旳主线。
　　39. A vowel is different from a consonant in English because of ________.
　　A. absence of obstruction B. presence of obstruction
　　C. manner of articulation D. place of articulation
　　TIP：选A。辅音重要是从肺部呼出旳气流在通过口腔或鼻腔时碰到阻碍而发出旳音，元音旳发音与之最大旳区别就是不受阻碍，不产生摩擦。
　　40. The definition "the act of using or promoting the use of several languages, either by an individual speaker or by a community of speakers" refers to _________.
　　A. Pidgin B. Creole C. Multilingualism D. Bilingualism
　　TIP：选C。Multilingualism旳意思是“多语现象、多语制”。
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