专业英语八级-人文知识(二)
(总分30,考试时间90分钟)
Exercise One
There are ten multiple-choice questions in this section. Choose the best answer to each question. Mark your answers on your answer sheet.
1. ______ is a satirist and the first writer in America to win the Nobel Prize in literature.
A. Eugene O'Neill B. Sinclair Lewis
C. T.S. Eliot D. William Faulkner
2. 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
3. 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.
4. Among the four pillars of English literature, who was NOT born and raised in Ireland?
A. Jonathan Swift.
B. William Butler Yeats.
C. James Joyce.
D. Robert Browning.
5. Which one of the following Ivy League Schools is situated in Connecticut?
A. Yale University. B. Harvard.
C. Princeton. D. Columbia.
6. 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.
7. 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
8. Who wrote a highly-acclaimed Novel Moby Dick?
A. William James. B. Herman Melville.
C. Ernest Hemingway. D. Cooper.
9. 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.
10. The branch of linguistics which studies the forms of words is ______ MORPHOLOGY.
A. phoneme B. morpheme
C. semantics D. morphology
Exercise Two
There are ten multiple-choice questions in this section. Choose the best answer to each question. Markyour answers on your answer sheet.
1. Who wrote and published the philosophical work Essay Concerning Human Understanding?
A. John Milton. B. John Locke.
C. Richard Steele. D. Joseph Addison.
2. In the literature of sociolinguistics, ______ refers to a group of institutionalized social situations typically constrained by a common set of behavioural rules.
A. domain B. distribution
C. dissimilation D. discourse
3. Who wrote one of the most enduring classic poem Ode to the West Wind?
A. William Wordsworth.
B. Alfred Tennyson.
C. Percy B. Shelley.
D. David Burn.
4. Which one of the following American cities is the birthplace of jazz?
A. New Orleans. B. New York.
steeleC. Boston. D. Chicago.
5. When did Elizabeth I come to the throne of England?
A. 1538. B. 1548.
C. 1568. D. 1558.
6. When was Oxford University founded?
A. 1167 in Oxford. B. 1267 in Oxford.
C. 1367 in Oxford. D. 1467 in Oxford.
7. The first capital of the young nation of the USA is ______.
A. Boston B. Philadelphia
C. New York D. Washington
8. ______ 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
9. What is the name of the woman poet who had her The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung up in America?
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