专八人文知识(练习题+答案详解)

专八人文知识（练习题

+

答案详解）

专八人文知识练习（

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1. Morphology is a study of ___1___

A. the internal structure of words and the rules that govern their formation

B. the uses of different types of utterances in different contexts

C. the differences between sounds used in human languages and sounds in nature

D. the rules that pertain to all languages throughout the world

of the following does NOT belong to “open class words”?___2___

A. Nouns

B. Adjectives

C. Conjunctions

D. Adverbs

3. What is the minimal unit of meaning?___3___

A. Phoneme

B. Morpheme

C. Allophone

D. Allomorph

4. Which of the following is NOT a free morpheme?___4___

A. bed

B. tress

C. dance

D. children

5. Which of the following is NOT a compound word?___5___

A. Rainbow

B. Inaction

C. Icy-cold

D. Unpleasant

6. ___6___ are bound morphemes because they can not be used as separate words.

A. Roots

B. Stems

C. Affixes

D. Compounds

mainly deals with ___7___

A. how a language changes through time

B. how words are combined to form sentences and the rules that govern the formation of sentences.

C. how the human work when they use language

D. how a language varies through geographical space

tic categories contain the type of ___8___

A. meaning that words express

B. affixes that the words take

C. structures in which the words can occur

D. all of the above

of the following is NOT the concern of a word category? ___9___

A. A

word category can be determined by meaning, inflection and distribution

B. T

o determine a word’s category by its meaning only is often not reliable.

C. A

word category can be embodied directly from its meaning.

D.

Distribution is more reliable than the meaning to determine a word’s category.

10. What elements does a phrase contain? ___10___

A. Head, determine and complement.

B. Head, specifier and complement.

C. Head, specifier and complementizer.

D. Head, determiner and complementizer.

参考答案：

ACBDD

CBDCB

专八人文知识练习（

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1. Where is Belfast?

A. In Ireland.

B. In Wales

C. In Northern Ireland.

D. In Scotland.

2. The capital of New Zealand is_____

A. Canberra.

B. Ottawa.

C. Wellington.

D. Washington.

3. Which of the following is NOT a U.K. newspaper?

A. The Guardian.

B. Christian Science Monitor.

C. The Daily Telegraph.

D. The Times.

4. The community college is a kind of_____ college popular in_____ to satisfy the needs of both

the individual and the society.

A. five-year; U.K.

B. four-year; U.K.

C. three-year; U.S.

D. two-year; U.S.

5. James Joyce was

a famous____ whose

masterpiece

Ulysses

has

been

highly

eulogized

in

the

Western literary world as one of the greatest works in the 20th century.

A. Essayist.

B. Novelist.

C. Poet.

D. Playwright.

6. George Gordon Byron was famous for the following works except____

A.

Child Harold’s Pilgrimage.

B. Queen Mab.

C. Hours of Idleness.

D. Don Juan.

7.

Which of the following is Nathaniel Hawthorne’s most noteworthy novel in the world?

A. Gone with the Wind. B. For Whom the Bell Tolls. C. American Tragedy. D. The Scarlet Letter

study of the rules whereby words or other elements of sentence structure are combined to

form grammatical sentences is______.

A. syntax

B. semantics

C. morphology

D. sociolinguistics

like “Xerox” and ”Kodak” a

re formed by____

A. back-formation

B. blending

C. coinage

D. acronym

of the following is NOT an approach for English language to enrich its vocabulary in

the past several centuries?

A. Borrowing

B. Upgradation

C. Narrowing

D. Widening

参考答案：

CCBDB

BDACB

专八人文知识练习（

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1 _____is the largest city and the chief port of the United States.

A

Washington D.C.

B Los Angeles

C San Francisco

D New Y

ork City

2 _____ enjoys the worst social and economic conditions.

A

Blacks

B Hispanics

C Indians

D Asian Americans

3 Washington D.C. is named after___________.

A

the U.S. President George Washington

B Christopher Columbus

C both George Washington and Christopher Columbus

D none of them

4 American and British English are two_____ of the English language.

A

varieties

B elements

C parts

D form

5 The first American president to be elected from the Republican Party was______.

A

Thomas Jefferson B James Monroe C James Madison D Abraham Lincoln

6 Of the fifty states, the smallest state in area is_____.

A

Rhode Island

B Virginia

C Texas

D Montana

7 The national flag of the United States is known as_____.

A

the Star-Spangled Banner

B Uncle Sam

C Hot Dog

D Union Jack

8 The number of the Representatives from each American state depends on the _____.

A

contribution a state has made to the nation

B population

C size

D none of the above

9 The tern “Father of Waters” is used to refer to _____.

A

the Amazon River B the Mississippi River C the Nile River D the Hudson River

10 The statue of liberty was given to American people by_____ as a gift in 1884.

A

France B Spain C Italy D Britain

答案详解：

1 D,

纽约是美国最大的城市同时也是最重要的经济中心和最主 要的港口。

2 A,

黑人在美国的经济和社会地位都最为低下。

3 C,

首都命名为华盛顿是为了纪 念美国的第一任总统乔治

?

华盛顿，而联邦直辖区命名为哥

伦比亚特区是为了纪念第一位从欧洲横渡大西洋到达西半球的探险家克里斯多拂

?

哥伦布。

4 A,

美国英语和英国英语是英语语言的两种变体。

5 D,

美国历史上的第一位共和党 总统是亚伯拉罕

?

林肯。

6 A,

美国国土面积最小的是罗得岛。

7 A,

美国的国旗是星条旗。

8 B,

美国每个州派往众议院的代表人数应与本州人口成比例。

9 B,

美国的

“

众河之父

”

指的是密西西比河。

10 A,

美国的自由女神像是法国人赠予的礼物。

专八人文知识练习（

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1. _____is a folk legend brought to England by

Anglo-Saxons from their continental homes, it is a

long poem of over 3000 lines and the national epic of the English people.

A

Beowulf

B sir Gawain

C the Canterbury tale

D king Arthur and his knights

2. The father of English poetry, the author of Troilus and Criseyde is also the one of ____.

A

Romeo and Juliet

B the faerie queen

C Tamburlainc

D the Canterbury tales

3. The group of Shakespeare plays known as

A

merchant of V

enice, as you like it

B the tempest, pericles, the winter's tale

C Romeo and Juliet, antonym and Cleopatra

tempest, pericles, the winter's tale,Cymbeline

4. Which of the following are regarded as Shakespeare's four great tragedies?

A

Romeo and Juliet, hamlet, Othello, King Lear

B Romeo and Juliet, hamlet, Othello, Macbeth

C hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth

D Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Macbeth, Timon of Athens

5. Which of the following is not the work of Francis bacon?

A

advancement of learning

B new instrument

C songs of innocence

D essays

6.

At

the

beginning

of

17th century

appeared

a school

of

poets

called

metaphysics

by

Samuel

Johnson, ____is the founder of metaphysical poetry.

A

Ben Johnson

B john Milton

C john Bunyan

D john Donne

7. Daniel Defoe is a famous____.

A

poet

B novelist

C playwright

D essayist

8.

A

Henry fielding's tom jones

B john Bunyan' the pilgrim's progress

C Richard brinsley Sheridan's the school for scandal

D Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe

9. Guiiliver' travel was written by____.

A

Daniel Defoe

B Charles dickens

C Jonathan swift

D Joseph Addison

10. William Wordsworth is generally known as a ____poet.

A

romantic

B realistic

C naturalistic

D neo-classic

答案详解

:

1.

A.

Beowulf

是

Anglo-Sax on

时代留下的重要的古英语文学作品

,

它被认为是英国的民族史

诗

.sir Gawain and the green knight, king Arthur and his knights of the round table

是中古英语时

期的浪漫传奇< /p>

.the Canterbury tale

是英国大诗人乔叟的一部诗体短篇小说集

.

2. D.

乔叟被誉为英国诗歌之父

, Troilus and Criseyde

是他的重要作品之一

.

3.

D.

1608-1612

被认为是莎翁的浪漫剧创作时期

,

包括四部浪漫剧和解剧

the

tempest,

pericles, the winter's tale, Cymbeline. merchant of V

enice, as you like it, twelfth night, the merry

wives of Windsor

为莎翁的喜剧

,Romeo and Juliet, antonym and Cleopatra

为悲剧

.

4. C.

莎翁最杰出的四大悲剧为

hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth.

5. C. songs of innocence

是英国

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