05-14专八人文知识真题

105-13年专八考试人文知识2005年31.isthecapitalofCanada.A)VancouverB)OttawaC)MontrealD)York32.U.S.presidentsnormallyservea(n)term.A)two-yearB)four-yearC)six-yearD)eight-year33.WhichofthefollowingcitiesisNOTlocatedintheNortheast,U.S.?A)Huston.B)Boston.C)Baltimore.D)Philadelphia.34.isthestatechurchinEngland.A)TheRomanCatholicChurchB)TheBaptistChurchC)TheProtestantChurchD)TheChurchofEngland35.ThenovelEmmaiswrittenby.A)MaryShelley.B)CharlotteBronte.C)ElizabethC.Gaskell.D)JaneAusten.36.WhichofthefollowingisNOTaromanticpoet?A)WilliamWordsworth.B)GeorgeElliot.C)GeorgeG.Byron.D)PercyB.Shelley.37.WilliamSidneyPorter,knownasO.Henry,ismostfamousfor.A)hispoems.B)hisplays.C)hisshortstories.D)hisnovels.38.Syntaxisthestudyof.A)languagefunctions.B)sentencestructures.C)textualorganization.D)wordformation.39.WhichofalefollowingisNOTadistinctivefeatureofhumanlanguage?A)Arbitrariness.B)productivity.C)Culturaltransmission.D)Finiteness.40.Thespeechacttheorywasfirstputforwardby.A)JohnSearle.B)JohnAustin.C)NoamChomsky.D)M.A,K.Halliday.答案及解析：31.[答案]B.31题问哪一个城市是加拿大的首都。根据英美等国概况教材，我们知道渥太华是其首都，该城位于安大略省东南部。32.[答案]B.32题问的美国总统一任几年，大家都知道一任四年，一般情况可竞选连任一次。33.[答案]A.33题问哪一座城市不是位于美国东北部，答案是A.Huston(休斯顿)，该城位于北纬43°36′西经116°46′，所以选择A是理想的答案。34.[答案]D.34题问英国的国教。根据英国历史，我们知道从英王亨利八世时代起，为脱离罗马教皇(Pope)的统治，改以AnglicanChurch(也称theChurchofEngland)为英国国教。这4题是史、地、文化或宗教等基本概况部分。35.[答案]D.35题问小说Emma为何人所作？该书为浪漫主义时期女作家JaneAusten所作。36.[答案]B.36题问哪一位不是浪漫派诗人？GeorgeElliot．是维多利亚时期的一位小说家，不是诗人，其他几位都是著名的浪漫派诗人。37.[答案]C.37题问短篇小说家WilliamSidneyPorter，笔名O-Henry，在哪方面最闻名于世？当然是其短篇小说，而且小说的结束常常出乎读者的意料之外。38.[答案]B.38题问句法学研究的内容是什么？当然是B(即句子结构了)。39.[答案]D.39题问下面四个选项中，哪一个不是人类语言的主要特征？除2Finiteness(有限性)外，其它几项在语言学概述部分都提到了，因此答案应选D.40.[答案]B.40题问言语行为是哪位语言学家首先提出来的？根据语言学著作的介绍，JohnAustinl969年首先提出了“言语行为”理论，其他人如JohnSearle(1969年提出)等，不管是提出或是进一步阐述该理论，都是在JohnAustin之后，对比不应有什么怀疑。答案应该选B.2006年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.ThenovelForWhomtheBellTollsiswrittenby.A.ScottFitzgeraldB.WilliamFaulknerC.EugeneO’NeilD.ErnestHemingway37._____isdefinedasanexpressionofhumanemotionwhichiscondensedintofourteenlinesA.FreeverseB.SonnetC.OdeD.Epigram38.Whatessentiallydistinguishessemanticsandpragmaticsisthenotionof.A.referenceB.meaningC.antonymyD.context39.Thewords“kid，child，offspring”areexamplesof.A.dialectalsynonymsB.stylisticsynonymsC.emotivesynonymsD.collocationalsynonyms40.Thedistinctionbetweenparoleandlanguewasmadeby.A.HallidayB.ChomskyC.BloomfieldD.Saussure31－35BCADA36－40DBDBD2007年31.ThemajorityofthecurrentpopulationintheUKaredecedentsofallthefollowingtribesrespectivelyEXCEPT_____________.A.theAnglosB.theCeltsC.theJutesD.theSaxons32.TheHeadofStateofCanadaisrepresentedby.A.theMonarchB.thePresidentC.thePrimeMinisterD.theGovernor-general33.TheDeclarationofIndependencewaswrittenby____________.3A.ThomasJeffersonB.GeorgeWashingtonC.AlexanderHamiltonD.JamesMadison34.TheoriginalinhabitantsofAustraliawere_______________.A.theRedIndiansB.theEskimosC.theAboriginesD.theMaoris35.WhichofthefollowingnovelswaswrittenbyEmilyBronte?A.OliverTwistB.MiddlemarchC.JaneEyreD.WutheringHeights36.WilliamButlerYeatswasa(n)______poetandplaywright.A.AmericanB.CanadianC.IrishD.Australian37.DeathofaSalesmanwaswrittenby_____________.A.ArthurMillerB.ErnestHemingwayC.RalphEllisonD.JamesBaldwin38._______referstothestudyoftheinternalstructureofwordsandtherulesofwordformation.A.PhonologyB.MorphologyC.SemanticsD.Sociolinguistics39.ThedistinctivefeaturesofaspeechvarietymaybeallthefollowingEXCEPT_________.A.lexicalB.syntacticC.phonologicalD.psycholinguistic40.Thewordtailoncereferredto“thetailofahorse”,butnowitisusedtomean“thetailofanyanimal.”Thisisanexampleof___________.A.wideningofmeaningB.narrowingofmeaningC.meaningshiftD.lossofmeaning31~35CDACD36~40CABDA2008年31.ThelargestcityinCanadais___________.A.Vancouver.B.Montreal.C.TorontoD.Ottawa.32.AccordingtotheUnitedStatesConstitution,thelegislativepowerisinvestedin.A.theFederalGovernment.B.theSupremeCourt.C.theCabinet.D.theCongress.33.WhichofthefollowingistheoldestsportintheUnitedStates?A.Baseball.B.Tennis.C.Basketball.D.Americanfootball.34.TheheadoftheexecutivebranchinNewZealandis__________.A.thePresident.B.theGovernor-General.C.theBritishmonarchD.thePrimeMinister.35.TheCanterburyTales,acollectionofstoriestoldbyagroupofpilgrimsontheirwaytoCanterbury,isanimportantpoeticworkby.A.WilliamLangland.B.GeoffreyChaucer.C.WilliamShakespeare.D.AlfredTennyson.36.WhowroteTheAmerican?A.HermanMelville.B.NathanielHawthorne.4C.HenryJames.D.TheodoreDreiser.37.Allofthefollowingarewell-knownfemalewritersin20th-centuryBritainEXCEPT________.A.GeorgeEliot.B.IrisJeanMurdoch.C.DorisL