1、专业英语八级(人文知识)模拟试卷 1及答案与解析 一、 PART III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (10 MIN) Directions: There are ten multiple-choice questions in this section. Choose the best answer to each question. 1 _delivered his world-famous speech Gettysburg Address during the Civil War. ( A) Cromwell ( B) Lincoln ( C) Churchill ( D) N
2、ixon 2 After the Norman Conquest the official language in England was_. ( A) Anglo-Saxon ( B) Spanish ( C) Latin ( D) French 3 After the Glorious Revolution_was established in Britain. ( A) Feudalism and Aristocracy ( B) Constitutional Monarchy ( C) Absolute Anarchy ( D) Laissez Faire 4 _proposed th
3、e New Deal. ( A) Roosevelt ( B) Wilson ( C) Nixon ( D) Kennedy 5 Captain Ahab is the most fascinating hero in_. ( A) The Old Man and the Sea ( B) Moby Dick ( C) Leaves of Grass ( D) Robinson Crusoe 6 _authored The Wrath of Grapes. ( A) Steinbeck ( B) Fitzgerald ( C) Hemingway ( D) Faulkner 7 Robert
4、Browning is often associated with_. ( A) stream of consciousness ( B) dramatic monologue ( C) heroic couplet ( D) multiple points of view 8 _analysis is a process of grammatical analysis according to which a syntactic construction can be analyzed into its basic units. ( A) TG ( B) IC ( C) LAD ( D) S
5、T 9 The founder of Behaviorism is_. ( A) Chomsky ( B) Saussure ( C) Bloomfield ( D) Labov 10 _is a word which is the reflection of more than one objects or concepts. ( A) Monosemy ( B) Polysemy ( C) Antonymy ( D) Synonymy 11 The Pilgrims are often associated with a festival named_. ( A) Easter ( B)
6、Christmas ( C) Thanksgiving Day ( D) Resurrection 12 The revolutionary leader of the English Civil War was_. ( A) Milton ( B) King Charles I ( C) Cromwell ( D) Henry VIII 13 The “Gunpowder Plot“ is associated with a man called_. ( A) John Milton ( B) Oliver Cromwell ( C) Guy Fawkes ( D) John Bunyan
7、14 The Mississippi River is called_. ( A) Father of Waters ( B) Mother of Waters ( C) Father of Life ( D) Mother of Life 15 _is called the father of English poetry. ( A) Shakespeare ( B) Spenser ( C) Keats ( D) Chaucer 16 _is acclaimed as “the poets poet“. ( A) Shakespeare ( B) Spenser ( C) Keats (
8、D) Chaucer 17 Iceberg Principle is associated with_. ( A) Faulkner ( B) Pound ( C) Hemingway ( D) Poe 18 _studies the meaning of language. ( A) Morphology ( B) Semantics ( C) Syntax ( D) Etymology 19 Speech Act Theory was first proposed by_. ( A) John Searle ( B) Norm Chomsky ( C) De Saussure ( D) J
9、ohn Austin 20 A: Do you think that our boss is a kind man? B: It is fine weather, isnt it? The above dialogue violates the principle of_of CP (Cooperative Principle). ( A) manner ( B) relation ( C) quality ( D) quantity 21 _is regarded by American as “the Father of the Country“. ( A) Jefferson ( B)
10、Franklin ( C) Adams ( D) Washington 22 _is often associated with the American War of Independence. ( A) New York ( B) James Town ( C) Philadelphia ( D) Chicago 23 _is considered to be the very beginning of the American War of Independence. ( A) Lexington Gunshot ( B) Boston Tea Party ( C) The Stamp
11、Act ( D) The Gunpowder Plot 24 _is Britains established Church. ( A) Roman Catholic Church ( B) Protestant Church ( C) Orthodox Eastern Church ( D) The Church of England 25 The quotation “Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested“ must come from the
12、work by_. ( A) Bacon ( B) Lamb ( C) Pope ( D) Emerson 26 The hero who has fallen a victim to his own ambition must be_. ( A) Hamlet ( B) Othello ( C) King Lear ( D) Macbeth 27 The avenger in the novel The Scarlet Letter is_. ( A) Dimmesdale ( B) Chillingworth ( C) Gatsby ( D) Captain Ahab 28 _refers
13、 to the extensive sound changes affecting vowels between 1400 and 1600. ( A) Meaning Shift ( B) Grimms Law ( C) Sound Change ( D) Great Vowel Shift 29 The following languages belong to Indo-European Language Family EXCEPT ( A) English ( B) French ( C) Japanese ( D) Russian 30 _is a figure of speech
14、in which such word as like or as is omitted. ( A) Pun ( B) Hyperbole ( C) Metaphor ( D) Anology 31 Darwins_theory contributed to the decay of Victorianism. ( A) revolutionary ( B) evolutionary ( C) reactionary ( D) progressive 32 _presides over the meeting in the House of Commons and sees that parli
15、amentary procedure is followed. ( A) Prime Minister ( B) The Speaker ( C) The Lord Chancellor ( D) The Queen 33 Wellington is the capital of_. ( A) Canada ( B) New Zealand ( C) Australia ( D) Austria 34 _is the largest city in Canada. ( A) Ottawa ( B) Toronto ( C) Vancouver ( D) Montreal 35 Carrie M
16、eeber appears in_. ( A) Sister Carrie ( B) The Scarlet Letter ( C) The Rainbow ( D) Tess 36 D.H. Lawrence employs _ in his masterpiece The Sons and Lovers. ( A) Stream of Consciousness ( B) Oedipus Complex ( C) Existentialism ( D) Dramatic Monologue 37 _._ is typical of Joseph Hellers Catch-2 ( A) I
17、rony ( B) Pun ( C) Black humor ( D) Monologue 38 _was invented by Dr. Zamenhof. ( A) TG grammar ( B) Esperanto ( C) Grimms Law ( D) CP 39 The phenomenon in which two languages are used by a community means_. ( A) pidgin ( B) creole ( C) bilingualism ( D) slang 40 The notion Signified vs. Signified i
18、s_contribution. ( A) Chomskys ( B) Saussures ( C) Bloomfields ( D) Hallidays 41 _does not belong to New England. ( A) Maine ( B) Vermont ( C) New York ( D) Rhode Island 专业英语八级(人文知识)模拟试卷 1答案与解析 一、 PART III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (10 MIN) Directions: There are ten multiple-choice questions in this section.
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