专八2003-2015年人文知识真题及答案

2003年英语专八人文知识真题31.isnotanationallyobservedholidayofAmerica.[A]Christmas[B]EasterSunday[C]ThanksgivingDay[D]IndependenceDay32.TheuniversityofDublinwasnotfoundeduntil.[A]the19thcentury[B]the18thcentury[C]the17thcentury[D]the16thcentury33.Theintroducedold-agepensionsinNewZealandin1898.[A]LaborParty[B]DemocraticParty[C]LiberalParty[D]ConservativeParty34.Irishcultureexperiencedagoldenagefromto.[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]bilingualism2004年英语专八人文知识真题31.ThefollowingareproductsimportedbyAustraliafromChinaEXCEPT.[A]food[B]textiles[C]steelproducts[D]electronics32.Scotsregardasthemostimportantfestivalinayear.[A]NearYear'sDay[B]ChristmasDay[C]NewYear'sEve[D]Easter33.TherepublicanmovementhasbeengatheringmomentuminAustraliasincebecamePrimeMinisterin1992.[A]JohnHoward[B]BobHawke[C]MalcolmFraser[D]PaulKeating34.wasknownforhisfamousspeechIhaveadream.[A]JohnF.Kennedy[B]MartinLutherKing,Jr[C]AbrahamLincoln[D]ThomasJefferson35.Ofallthe18thcenturynovelists,______wasthefirsttosetout,bothintheoryandpractice,towritespecificallyacomicepicinprose,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,etc.intermsof.[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]Root2005年英语专八人文知识真题31.isthecapitalofCanada.[A]Vancouver[B]Ottawa[C]Montreal[D]York32.U.S.presidentsnormallyservea(n)term.[A]two-year[B]four-year[C]six-year[D]eight-year33.WhichofthefollowingcitiesisNOTlocatedintheNortheast,U.S.?[A]Huston.[B]Boston.[C]Baltimore.[D]Philadelphia.34.isthestatechurchinEngland.[A]TheRomanCatholicChurch[B]TheBaptistChurch[C]TheProtestantChurch[D]TheChurchofEngland35.ThenovelEmmaiswrittenby.[A]MaryShelley[B]CharlotteBrontë[C]ElizabethC.Gaskell[D]JaneAusten36.WhichofthefollowingisNOTaromanticpoet?[A]WilliamWordsworth.[B]GeorgeElliot.[C]GeorgeC.Byron.[D]PercyB.Shelley.37.WilliamSidneyPorter,knownasO.Henry,ismostfamousfor.[A]hispoems[B]hisplays[C]hisshortstories[D]hisnovels38.Syntaxisthestudyof.[A]languagefunctions[B]sentencestructures[C]textualorganization[D]wordformation39.WhichofthefollowingisNOTadistinctivefeatureofhumanlanguage?[A]Arbitrariness.[B]Productivity.[C]Culturaltransmission.[D]Finiteness.40.Thespeechacttheorywasfirstputforwardby.[A]JohnSearle[B]JohnAustin[C]NoamChomsky[D]M.A.K.Halliday参考答案：BBADABCBDB2006年英语专八人文知识真题31.ThePresidentduringtheAmericanCivilWarwas.[A]AndrewJackson[B]AbrahamLincoln[C]ThomasJefferson[D]GeorgeWashington32.ThecapitalofNewZealandis.[A]Christchurch[B]Auckland[C]Wellington[D]Hamilton33.WhowerethenativesofAustraliabeforethearrivaloftheBritishsettlers?[A]TheAborigines.[B]TheMaori.[C]TheIndians.[D]TheEskimos.34.ThePrimeMinisterinBritainisheadof.[A]theShadowCabinet[B]theParliament[C]theOpposition[D]theCabinet35.Whichofthefollowingwritersisapoetofthe20thcentury?[A]T.S.Eliot.[B]D.H.Lawrence.[C]TheodoreDreiser.[D]JamesJoyce.36.ThenovelForWhomtheBellTollsiswrittenby.[A]ScottFitzgerald[B]WilliamFaulkner[C]EugeneO'Neill[D]ErnestHemingway37.isdefinedasanexpressionofhumanemotionwhichiscondensedintofourteenlines.[A]Freeverse[B]Sonnet[C]Ode[D]Epigram38.Whatessentiallydistinguishessemanticsandpragmaticsisthenotionof.[A]reference[B]meaning[C]antonymy[D]context39.Thewordskid,child,offspringareexamplesof.[A]dialectalsynonyms[B]stylisticsynonyms[C]emotivesynonyms[D]collocationalsynonyms40.Thedistinctionbetweenparoleandlanguewasmadeby.[A]Halliday[B]Chomsky[C]Bloomfield[D]Saussure参考答案BCADADBDBD2007年英语专八人文知识真题31.ThemajorityofthecurrentpopulationintheUKaredecedentsofallthefollowingtribesrespectivelyE