专业八级人文知识题2006—2012年真题及答案

12006年英语专八人文知识真题答案31.ThePresidentsduringtheAmericanCivilWarwas.A.AndrewJacksonB.AbrahamLincolnC.ThomasJeffersonD.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.ThenovelForWhomtheBellTollsiswrittenbyA.ScottFitzgeraldB.WilliamFaulknerC.EugeneO'NeilD.ErnestHemingway37._____isdefinedasanexpressionofhumanemotionwhichiscondensedintofourteenlinesA.FreeverseB.SonnetC.OdeD.Epigram38.WhatessentiallydistinguishessemanticsandpragmaticsisthenotionofA.referenceB.meaningC.antonymyD.context39.Thewordskid,child,offspringareexamplesofA.dialectalsynonymsB.stylisticsynonymsC.emotivesynonymsD.collocationalsynonyms40.ThedistinctionbetweenparoleandlanguewasmadebyA.HollidayB.ChomskyC.BloomfieldD.Saussure2007年英语专八人文知识真题及答案31.ThemajorityofthecurrentpopulationintheUKaredecedentsofallthefollowingtribesrespectivelyEXCEPTA.theAnglosB.theCeltsC.theJutes√D.theSaxons32.TheHeadofStateofCanadaisrepresentedbyA.theMonarchB.thePresidentC.thePrimeMinisterD.theGovernor-general√33.TheDeclarationofIndependencewaswrittenbyA.ThomasJefferson√B.GeorgeWashingtonC.AlexanderHamiltonD.JamesMadison34.TheoriginalinhabitantsofAustraliawereA.theRedIndians2B.theEskimosC.theAborigines√D.theMaoris35.WhichofthefollowingnovelswaswrittenbyEmilyBronte?A.OliverTwistB.MiddlemarchC.JaneEyreD.WutheringHeights√36.WilliamButlerYeatswasa(n)______poetandplaywright.A.AmericanB.CanadianC.Irish√D.Australian37.DeathofaSalesmanwaswrittenbyA.ArthurMiller√B.ErnestHemingwayC.RalphEllisonD.JamesBaldwin38._______referstothestudyoftheinternalstructureofwordsandtherulesofwordformation.A.PhonologyB.Morphology√C.SemanticsD.Sociolinguistics39.ThedistinctivefeaturesofaspeechvarietymaybeallthefollowingEXCEPTA.lexicalB.syntacticC.phonologicalD.psycholinguistic√40.Thewordtailoncereferredto“thetailofahorse”,butnowitisusedtomean“thetailofanyanimal.”ThisisanexampleofA.wideningofmeaning√B.narrowingofmeaningC.meaningshiftD.lossofmeaning2008年英语专业八级考试人文知识测试及答案31.ThelargestcityinCanadaisA.Vancouver.B.Montreal.C.TorontoD.Ottawa.32.AccordingtotheUnitedStatesConstitution,thelegislativepowerisinvestedinA.theFederalGovernment.B.theSupremeCourt.C.theCabinet.D.theCongress.33.WhichofthefollowingistheoldestsportintheUnitedStates?3A.Baseball.B.Tennis.C.Basketball.D.Americanfootball.34.TheheadoftheexecutivebranchinNewZealandisA.thePresident.B.theGovernor-General.C.theBritishmonarch,D.thePrimeMinister.35.TheCanterburyTales,acollectionofstoriestoldbyagroupofpilgrimsontheirwaytoCanterbury,isanimportantpoeticworkbyA.WilliamLangland.B.GeoffreyChaucer.C.WilliamShakespeare.D.AlfredTennyson.36.WhowroteTheAmerican?A.HermanMelville.B.NathanielHawthorne.C.HenryJames.D.TheodoreDreiser.37.Allofthefollowingarewell-knownfemalewritersin20th-centuryBritainEXCEPTA.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.ThephenomenonthatwordshavingdifferentmeaningshavethesameformiscalledA.hyponymy.B.synonymy.C.polysemy.D.homonymy.31选C加拿大最大的城市是TORONTO32选D立法权是国会THE33选A棒球：一切都始于棒球美国的体育文化脱胎于棒球,一直以来,棒球就一直是文人们的最爱。作为最古老的美式运动,棒球的形态一直保存完整,历史学家们视之为宝物34新西兰的最高长官是Bgovernorgeneral总督35选BTHECANTERBURYTALES是GEORFFERYCHAUCER写的36选CTHEAMERICAN是谁写的HenrryJames437选A不是20世纪英国女作家那题选A其他都是20世纪著名的女性作家乔治.艾略特(GeorgeEliot)原名玛丽·安·埃文斯MaryAnnEvans，1819年11月22日-1880年12月22日，英国小说家，与狄更斯和萨克雷齐名。其主要作品有《弗洛斯河上的磨坊》TheMillontheFloss，《米德尔马契》等。38选D历时性(diachronicity)这个不是语言学的特性39选B并列句but连接的两个分句40选Dhomonymy指的是语汇中一对对或是一组组的单词，虽然意思不同，但是发音相同，或拼写相同，又或者是发音和拼写都相同。这些一对对一组组的单词我们称之为homonym(同形同音异义词、同形异义词、同音异义词)。2009专八人文知识测试及答案31.TheHeadofStateofNewZealandisA.thegovernor-general.B.thePrimeMinister.C.thehighcommissioner.D.themonarchoftheUnitedKingdom.32.ThecapitalofScotlandisA.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.OdetotheWestWindwaswrittenbyA.WilliamBlake.B.WilliamWordsworth.C.SamuelTaylorColeridge.D.PercyB.Shelley.36.Whoamongthefollowingisapoetoffreeverse?A.RalphWaldoEmerson.B.WaltWhitman.C.HermanMelvilleD.TheodoreDreiser.37.ThenovelSonsandLoverswaswrittenbyA.ThomasHardy.B.JohnGalsworthy.C.D.H.Lawrence.5D.JamesJoyce.38.ThestudyofthementalprocessesoflanguagecomprehensionandproductionisA.corpuslinguistics.B.sociolinguistics.C.theoreticallinguistics.D.psycholinguistics.39.Aspeciallanguagevarietythatmixeslanguagesandisusedbyspeakersofd