1、专业英语八级(人文知识)模拟试卷 2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 _is the key conception in Christianity in which the three aspects of the same God are united as one. ( A) Resurrection ( B)
2、Ascension ( C) Trinity ( D) Holy Spirit 2 The first president in the U.S. history who resigned because of a scandal is_. ( A) Wilson ( B) Nixon ( C) Jackson ( D) Kennedy 3 A traditional food enjoyed by Americans during Thanksgiving Day is_. ( A) steamed bun ( B) roast turkey ( C) roast duck ( D) fri
3、ed fish 4 Thoreaus_is full of eco-wisdom. ( A) Nature ( B) Self-Reliance ( C) Walden ( D) Moby Dick 5 _takes London as the setting in most of his novels. ( A) Dickens ( B) Hardy ( C) Thackeray ( D) Defoe 6 _is the penname of William Sidney Porter, a famous short-story writer. ( A) Mark Twain ( B) O.
4、 Henry ( C) Henry James ( D) Stephen Crane 7 _is not a way of word-formation. ( A) Derivation ( B) Conversion ( C) Blending ( D) Imitation 8 The smallest linguistic unit that can be used independently is_. ( A) morpheme ( B) phoneme ( C) minimal pair ( D) word 9 “Daddy“ and “Father“ are_synonyms. (
5、A) dialectal ( B) stylistic ( C) emotive ( D) semantically different 10 _does not belong to The Great Lakes. ( A) Lake Superior ( B) Lake Michigan ( C) Lake Huron ( D) Walden Pond 11 _control most of the wealth and the politics of the United States of America. ( A) The WASPS ( B) The Blacks ( C) The
6、 Indians ( D) The Hispanics 12 The sentence “.government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth“ comes from_. ( A) the Emancipation Proclamation ( B) The Declaration of Independence ( C) Gettysburg Address ( D) I Have a Dream 13 _is called the “backbone of Engl
7、and“. ( A) The Rockies ( B) The Pennines ( C) The Appalachians ( D) The Grand Canyon 14 _does not belong to “Lake Poets“. ( A) Blake ( B) Wordsworth ( C) Southey ( D) Coleridge 15 _is considered as the founder of American drama. ( A) Miller ( B) ONeill ( C) Williams ( D) Faulkner 16 If America had a
8、 national poet in the 20th century, it is certainly_. ( A) Frost ( B) Pound ( C) Poe ( D) Whitman 17 The relationship between “flower“ and “rose“ is_. ( A) antonymy ( B) synonymy ( C) hyponymy ( D) polysemy 18 _is a voiced bilabial stop. ( A) /m/ ( B) /p/ ( C) /b/ ( D) /v/ 19 _proposed the idea of t
9、he surface structure and the deep structure. ( A) Bloomfield ( B) Halliday ( C) Saussure ( D) Chomsky 20 The British Parliament consists of_. ( A) the House Lord and the House of Commons ( B) the House and the Senate ( C) the Queen and the Hosue of Lords ( D) the Sovereign, the House of Lords and th
10、e House of Commons 21 The Tower of London, a historical sight, located in the center of London, was built by_. ( A) King Harold ( B) Henry VIII ( C) Oliver Cromwell ( D) William the Conqueror 22 The nickname(s) of the U.S.A.is_. ( A) Uncle Sam ( B) Brother Jonathan ( C) Yankee ( D) All of the above
11、23 In area, the United States is the_ largest country in the world. ( A) 2nd ( B) 3rd ( C) 4th ( D) 5th 24 The Old Man and the Sea is written by_. ( A) Jack London ( B) Charles Dickens ( C) Samuel Coleridge ( D) Ernest Hemingway 25 In which novel can “Yahoo“ be found? ( A) John Bunyans Pilgrims Prog
12、ress. ( B) Edmund Spencers The Faerie Queen. ( C) Jonathan Swifts Gullivers Travels. ( D) Henry Fieldings Tom Jones. 26 The Catcher in the Rye is written by_. ( A) J.D.Salinger ( B) Jack London ( C) Mark Twain ( D) Saul Bellow 27 The branch of linguistics that studies how context influences the way
13、speakers interpret sentences is called_. ( A) pragmatics ( B) semantics ( C) sociolinguistics ( D) psycholinguistics 28 Which of the following words can connect two clauses in a coordinate sentence? ( A) Through. ( B) When. ( C) But. ( D) If. 29 The word “Kidult“ comes from “kid“ and “adult“. This i
14、s an example of_. ( A) blending ( B) derivation ( C) conversion ( D) compound 30 _forms a natural boundary between Mexico and the United States. ( A) The Rio Grande River ( B) The Mississippi River ( C) The Colorado River ( D) The Gulf of Mexico 31 The American President during the Second World War
15、was_. ( A) Andrew Jackson ( B) Abraham Lincoln ( C) Thomas Jefferson ( D) Franklin D.Roosevelt 32 The emblem of the Democratic Party is_. ( A) elephant ( B) donkey ( C) bear ( D) bull 33 Richard Nixon resigned in 1974 because of_. ( A) the Great Depression ( B) the Black Power Movement ( C) the Wate
16、rgate Scandal ( D) the Isolation Policy 34 _was considered to be the greatest dramatist in the 18th century. ( A) Henry Fielding ( B) John Milton ( C) Oliver Goldsmith ( D) Richard B.Sheridan 35 The novel starts with “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good f
17、ortune must be in want of a wife.“ The novel is Jane Austens ( A) Emma ( B) Persuasion ( C) Sense and Sensibility ( D) Pride and Prejudice 36 The sentence “Shall I compare thee to a summers day?“ is the beginning line of one of Shakespeares_. ( A) comedies ( B) tragedies ( C) sonnets ( D) essays 37
18、“Alive“ and “dead“ form a pair of_. ( A) converse antonymy ( B) complementary antonymy ( C) gradable antonymy ( D) marked antonymy 38 If one lexical item has more than one meaning, then we call it_. ( A) homonymy ( B) hyponymy ( C) synonymy ( D) polysemy 39 TPP is_. ( A) an abbreviation ( B) an acro
19、nym ( C) a blending ( D) a derivation 专业英语八级(人文知识)模拟试卷 2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 【正确答案】 C 【知识模块】 人文知识 2 【正确答案】 B 【知识模块】 人文知识 3 【正确答案】 B 【知识模块】 人文知识 4 【正确答案】 C 【知识模块】 人文
20、知识 5 【正确答案】 A 【知识模块】 人文知识 6 【正确答案】 B 【知识模块】 人文知识 7 【正确答案】 D 【知识模块】 人文知识 8 【正确答案】 D 【知识模块】 人文知识 9 【正确答案】 B 【知识模块】 人文知识 10 【正确答案】 D 【知识模块】 人文知识 11 【正确答案】 A 【知识模块】 人文知识 12 【正确答案】 C 【知识模块】 人文知识 13 【正确答案】 B 【知识模块】 人文知识 14 【正确答案】 A 【知识模块】 人文知识 15 【正确答案】 B 【知识模块】 人文知识 16 【正确答案】 A 【知识模块】 人文知识 17 【正确答案】 C 【知
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