专业八级人文知识试题.doc

专八人文：英国文学部分精选习题
The Renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events, which one of the following is not such an event?
A. The rediscovery of ancient Rome and Greek culture.
B. England's domestic rest.
C. New discovery in geography and astrology.
D. The religious reformation and the economic expansion.
Which of the following is regarded as the most successful religious allegory in the English language.
A. The Pilgrim's Progress  B. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
C. The Life and Death of Mr. Badman  D. The Holy War
 It is           alone who, for the first time in English literature, presented to us a comprehensive realistic picture of the English society of his time and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life.
A. Geoffrey Chaucer B. Martin Luther C. William Langland D. John Gower
 All of the following four except           are the most eminent dramatists in the Renaissance England.
 A. Francis Bacon B. Christopher Marlowe C. William Shakespeare D. Ben Jonson
It is generally regarded that Keats's most important and mature poems are in the form of         .
 A. elegy B. ode C. epic D. sonnet
Daniel Defoe's novels mainly focus on           .
 A. the struggle of the unfortunate for mere existence
 B. the struggle of the shipwrecked persons for security
 C. the struggle of the pirates for wealth
 D. the desire of the criminals for property
In Beowulf,            fought against the monster Grendel and a five breathing dragon.
 A. the Anglo-Saxons B. Beowulf C. the Scandinavian D. the Winter Dragon
Francis Bacon is best known for his         which greatly influenced the development of this literary form.
 A. essays B. poems C. works D plays
Most of Thomas Hardy's novels are set in Wessex             .
 A. a crude region in England B. a fictional primitive region
 C. a remote rural area D. Hardy's hometown
We can perhaps describe the west wind in Shelley's poem "Ode to the West Wind" with all the following terms except               .
 A. swift B. proud C. tamed D. wild

 "Blindness", "partiality", "prejudice", and "absurdity" in the novel "Pride and Prejudice" are most likely the characteristics of            .
 A. Elizabeth B. Darcy C. Mr. Bennet D. Mrs. Bennet
The modern English novel came into being in           .
 A. the middle of the 17th century B. the 17th century
 C. the late 18th century D. the middle of the 18th century
Who is not the major figure of modernist movement?
 A. Eliot B. Joyce C. Charles Dickens D. Pound
Who is considered to be the best known English dramatist since Shakespeare?
 A. Oscar Wilde B. John Galsworthy C. W.B. Yeats D. George Bernard Shaw
Of the following poets, which is not regarded as "Lake Poets"?
 A. Samuel Taylor Coleridge B. Robert Southy C. William Words worth D. William Shakespeare
In the first part of Gulliver's Travels, Gulliver told his experience in           .
 A. Lilliput B. Brobdingnag C Houyhnhnm D. England
Which of the following cannot describe "Byronic hero"?
 A. proud B. mysterious C. noble origin D progressive
In the history of literature, Romanticism is generally regarded as     .
 A. the thought that designates a literary and philosophical theory which tends to see the individual as the very center of all life and all experience.
 B. the thought that designates man as a social animal
 C. the orientation that emphasizes those features which men have in common
 D. the modes of thinking
The term "metaphysical poetry" is commonly used to name the work of the 17th century writers who wrote under the influence of            .
 A. John Milton B. John Donne C. John Keats D. John Bunyan
"The Vanity Fair" is a well-known part in             .
 A. The Pilgrim's Progress B. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
 C. The Life and Death of Mr. Badman D. The Holy War
In Oliver Twist, Charles criticizes                    .
 A. money worshipping tendency B. dehumanizing of workhouse system
 C. hypocrisy of the upper society D. distortion of human heart
Which of the following plays by Shakespeare is history play?
 A. Julius Caesar B. The Merry Wives of Windsor C. Henry IV D. King Lear
Who is regarded as a "worshipper of nature".
 A. John Keats B. William Blake C. William Wordsworth D. Jane Austen
Which of the following writing is not the work by Charles Dickens?
 A. A Tale of Two Cities B. Hard Times C. Oliver Twist D. Sons and Lovers

The 18th century England is known as the             in the history.
 A. Romanticism B. Classicism C. Renaissance D. Enlightenment
专八人文：美国文学部分精选习题
In American literature, the eighteen century was the age of the Enlightenment.           was the dominant spirit.
A. Humanism B. Rationalism C. Revolution D. Evolution
Which statement about Franklin is not true?
A. He instructed his countrymen as a printer. B. He was a scientist.
C. He was a master of diplomacy. D. He was a Puritan.
Who is regarded as the first American prose epic.
A. Nature B. The Scarlet Letter C. Walden D. Moby-Dick
The Romanic Period of American literature started with the publication of Washington Irving's          and ended with Whiteman's Leaves of Grass.
A. The Sketch Book B. Tales of a Traveler C. The Alhambra D. A history of New York
In Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, "A" may stand for         .
A. Adultery B. Angel C. Amiable D. All the above
The period before the American Civil War is generally referred to as               .
A. the Naturalist Period B. the Modern Period C. the Romantic Period D. the Realistic Period
The Age of Realism is the literary history of the United States refers to the period from      to      .
A. 1861 – 1914 B. 1863 – 1918 C. 1865 – 1914 D. 1865 – 1918
Who is described by Mark Twain as a boy with "a sound heart and a deformed conscience?"
A. Tom Sawyer B. Huckleberry Finn C. Jim D. Tony
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
The impact of Darwin's evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the nineteenth-century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to yet another school of realism: American              .
A. modernism B. naturalism C. vernacularism D. local colorism
In 1900, London published his first collection of short stories, named              .
A. The son of the Wolf B. The Sea Wolf C. The Law of Life D. White Fang
In which of the following works, Hemingway presents his philosophy about life and death through the depiction of the bull-fight as a kind of microcosmic tragedy?
A. The Green Hills of Africa. B. The Snows of Kilimanjaro.
C. To Have and Have Not. D. Death in the Afternoon.
Which of the following figures does not belong to "The Lost Generation"?
A. Ezra Pound B. William Carlos Williams C. Robert Frost D. Theodore Dreiser
Who is a dramatist that holds the central position in American drama the modernistic period?
A. Sinclair Levis B. Eugene O'Neil C. Arthur Miller D. Tennessee Williams
The following writers were awarded Nobel Prize for literature except           .
A. William Faulkner B. F. Scott Fitzgerald C. John Steinbeck D. Ernest Hemingway
In 1954,            was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature for his "mastery of the art of modern narration".
A. T.S. Eliot B. Ernest Hemingway C. John Steinbeck D. William Faulkner
Who is the author of the work: "The Grapes of Wrath"?
A. John Steinbeck B. Eugene O'Neil C. F. Scott Fitzgerald D. Theodore Dreiser
In 1920 Sinclair Lewis published his memorable denunciation of American small-town provincialism in              .
A. Main Street B. An American Tragedy C. Winesburg, Ohio D. Sister Carrie
专八人文知识：语言学部分精选试题
Which of the following statements about language is NOT true?
A. Language is a system B. Language is symbolic
C. Animals also have language D. Language is arbitrary
Which of the following features is NOT one of the design features of language?
A. Symbolic B. Dual C. Productive D. Arbitrary
What is the most important function of language?
A. Interpersonal B. Phatic C. Informative D. Metalingual
Who put forward the distinction between Langue and Parole?
A. Saussure B. Chomsky C. Halliday D. Anonymous

According to Chomsky, which is the ideal user's internalized knowledge of his language?
A. competence B. parole C. performance D. langue
The function of the sentence "A nice day, isn't it?" is        .
A. informative B. phatic C. directive D. performative
Articulatory phonetics mainly studies              .
A. the physical properties of the sounds produced in speech
B. the perception of sounds
C. the combination of sounds
D. the production of sounds
The distinction between vowels and consonants lies in             .
A. the place of articulation B. the obstruction of airstream
C. the position of the tongue D. the shape of the lips
Which is the branch of linguistics which studies the characteristics of speech sounds and provides methods for their description, classification and transcription?
A. Phonetics B. Phonology C. Semantics D. Pragmatics
Which studies the sound systems in a certain language?
A. Phonetics B. Phonology C. Semantics D. Pragmatics
Minimal pairs are used to                  .
A. find the distinctive features of a language
B. find the phonemes of a language
C. compare two words
D. find the allophones of language
Usually, suprasegmental features include             ,length and pitch.
A. phoneme B. speech sounds C. syllables D. stress
Which is an indispensable part of a syllable?
A. Coda B. Onset C. Stem D. Peak
Which is the smallest unit of language in terms of relationship between expression and content?
A. Word B. Morpheme C. Allomorph D. Root
Which studies the internal structure of words, and the rules by which words are formed?
A. Morphology B. Syntax C. Phonology D. Semantics
Lexeme is                .
A. a physically definable unit
B. the common factor underlying a set of forms
C. a grammatical unit
D. an indefinable unit
Which of the following sounds does not belong to the allomorphs of the English plural morpheme ?
A. [s] B. [iz] C. [ai] D. [is]
All words contain a              .
A. root morpheme B. bound morpheme C. prefix D. suffix
The relationship between "fruit" and "apple" is            .
A. homonymy B. hyponymy C. polysemy D. synonymy
The part of the grammar that represents a speaker's knowledge of the structure of phrases and sentences is called           .
A. lexicon B. morphology C. syntax D. semantics
Which of the following items is not one of the grammatical categories of English pronouns?
A. gender B. number C. case D. voice
The pair of words "lend" and "borrow" are             .
A. gradable opposites B. converse opposites C. co-hyponyms D. synonyms
"Big" and "Small" are a pair of             opposites.
A. complementary B. gradable C. complete D. converse
According to C. Morris and R. Carnap, which is studies the relationship between symbols and their interpreters?
A. syntax B. semantics C. pragmatics D. sociolinguistics
There are           deixis in the sentence she has sold it here yesterday.
A. 3 B. 4 C. 5 D 6
In the following conversation:
- Beirut is in Peru, isn't it?
- And Rome is in Romania, I suppose.
The second person violates the            .
A. Quantity Maxim B. Quality Maxim C. Relation Maxim D. Manner Maxim
The maxim of requires that a participant's contribution be relevant to the        conversation.
A. quantity B. quality C. manner D. relation
专八人文知识考前模拟试题
１．Which one of the four is NOT correct?
　　A) English-speaking countries are UK, USA, Canada, Barbados, etc.
　　B) English-speaking countries are UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, etc.
　　C) English-speaking countries are USA, Canada, Australia, the Republic of Ireland, etc.
　　D) English-speaking countries USA, Canada, Australia, Egypt, etc.
２．The famous short story The Fall of the House of Usher was written by
　　A) Charles Dickens B) Edgar Allen Poe 
　　C) John Richardson (Canadian novelist) D) Henry Savery
３．Which one of the following Ivy League Schools is situated in Connecticut?
　　A) Yale University. B) Harvard. 
　　C) Princeton. D) Columbia.
４．The branch of linguistics which studies the forms of words is __ MORPHOLOGY..
A) phoneme B) morpheme 
C) semantics D) morphology
５．Who wrote a highly-acclaimed Novel Moby Dick?
A) William James. B) Herman Melville. 
C) Ernest Hemingway. D) Cooper.
６．What is the name of the Lake in northern Utah of the U.S.A.?
A) Lake Michigan. B) Lake Superior. 
C) Lake Erie. D) the Great Salt Lake.
７．Who wrote Pygmalion which later was transformed into the highly popular New York Broadway musical My Fair Lady in 1956?
A) Edgar Allen Poe. B) Charles Lamb. 
C) George Bernard Shaw. D) Alfred Tennyson.
８．Among the four pillars of English literature, who was NOT born and raised in Ireland?
A) Jonathan Swift. B) W'filiam Buffer Yeats.
C) James Joyce. D) Robert Browning.
９．Alaska lies in the of North America, stretching southward from the Arctic Ocean to the Pacific.
A) northwestern part B) southwestern part 
C) northeastern part D) southeastern part
１０．Who is a satirist and the first writer in America to win the Nobel Prize in literature.
A) Eugene O' Neill B) Sinclair Lewis 
C) TS. Eliot D) W'dliam Fanlkner
专八人文知识考前模拟试题2
The first capital of the young nation of the USA is           .
A) Boston B) Philadelphia C) New York D) Washington
Which one of the following American cities is the birthplace of jazz?
A) New Orleans. B) New York. C) Boston. D) Chicago.
Who wrote one of the most enduring classic poem Ode to the West Wind ?
A) Wifiliam Wordsworth. B) Alfred Tennyson. C) Percy Shelley. D) David Bum.
When was Elizabeth I came to the throne of England?
A) 1538. B) 1548. C.1568. D) 1558.

When was Oxford University founded?
A) 1167 in Oxford, B) 1267 in Oxford.
C) 1367 in Oxford. D) 1467 in Oxford.
Canada is often described as a huge ~ centered on the Hudson and James Bay.
A) plate B) saucer C) cup D) bowl
In the literature of sociolinguistics, refers to a group of institutionalized social situations typically con strained by a common set of behavioural rules.
A) domain B) distribution C) dissimilation D) discourse
            is a process in which part of the form is native and part is borrowed, but the meaning is fully borrowed.
A) loanshifting B) loanblending C) loan translation D) logical connection
What is the name of the woman poet who had her The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung up in America?
A) Anne Bradstreet. B) Maria Edgeworth. C) Jane Austen. D) Emily Dickinson.
Who wrote and published the philosophical work Essay Concerning Human Understanding