1、专业英语八级(人文知识)模拟试卷 52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 The word holiday originally meant holy day; but now the word signifies any day on which we dont have to work. This is an ex
2、ample of_. ( A) meaning shift ( B) widening of meaning ( C) narrowing of meaning ( D) loss of meaning 2 The national day of the United States of America falls on_. ( A) July 4th ( B) June 4th ( C) July 14th ( D) June 14th 3 In Britain,_is the first Labour Party leader who won the third consecutive g
3、eneral election, though he resigned in the mid of the third term. ( A) Tony Blair ( B) Gordon Brown ( C) Clement Attlee ( D) James MacDonald 4 In Australia, who becomes leader of the official opposition? ( A) The leader of the majority party which won the second largest number of seats. ( B) The lea
4、der of the other two joint majority parties which didnt win a majority of seats. ( C) The leader of the largest minority party. ( D) The leader of the joint-minority-party. 5 The national day of New Zealand is_, to honor the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840. ( A) January 26th ( B) February 6th ( C) March
5、7th ( D) April 5th 6 _is NOT a comedy. ( A) A Midsummer Nights Dream ( B) The Merchant of Venice ( C) Romeo and Juliet ( D) As You Like It 7 _is NOT a black novelist. ( A) James Baldwin ( B) Toni Morrison ( C) John Steinbeck ( D) Richard Wright 8 Eugene ONeills The Long Days Journey Into Night, Tenn
6、essee Williams_and Arthur Millers Death of a Salesman are the three greatest American plays. ( A) The Glass Menagerie ( B) The Streetcar Named Desire ( C) The Hairy Ape ( D) All My Sons 9 The design features of human language include the following EXCEPT_. ( A) duality ( B) displacement ( C) parole
7、( D) arbitrariness 10 The affix in the word speaking is a(n)_. ( A) derivational suffix ( B) inflectional suffix ( C) root ( D) free morpheme 11 The style of “See ya, buddy!“ is_. ( A) formal ( B) consultative ( C) frozen ( D) intimate 12 Of all the states of America,_is the smallest of the country
8、while Alaska is the largest one. ( A) Maine ( B) Utah ( C) Rhode Island ( D) Kansas 13 Which of the following is NOT an exponent of English Renaissance? ( A) Ben Johnson. ( B) Christopher Marlowe. ( C) William Shakespeare. ( D) William Caxton. 14 Gettysburg Address is a speech by_, the President who
9、 led the North to win the Civil War. ( A) Andrew Jackson ( B) Abraham Lincoln ( C) Thomas Jefferson ( D) Woodrow Wilson 15 In which year did Canada become a country? ( A) 1780. ( B) 1838. ( C) 1867. ( D) 1871. 16 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard is a representative_poem written by Thomas Gray.
10、( A) metaphysical ( B) modernist ( C) sentimentalist ( D) romanticist 17 Martin Eden is the semi-autobiographical novel by_. ( A) Upton Sinclair ( B) Stephen Crane ( C) Frank Norris ( D) Jack London 18 _is a 20th century poet. ( A) John Donne ( B) Alfred Tennyson ( C) Emily Dickinson ( D) Robert Fro
11、st 19 Which of the following is NOT a plosive in English? ( A) b ( B) t ( C) k ( D) v 20 What type of sentence is “The question of whether war is inevitable is one which has concerned many great writers.“? ( A) A simple sentence. ( B) A coordinate sentence. ( C) A complex sentence. ( D) None of the
12、above. 21 The sense relationship between lend and borrow is_. ( A) complementary antonymy ( B) gradable antonymy ( C) converse antonymy ( D) none of the above 22 Among all the states in Australia,_is the oldest state. ( A) Victoria ( B) Queensland ( C) New South Wales ( D) Tasmania 23 In the United
13、States, the presiding officer of the House of Representative, the Speaker, is_. ( A) elected by the members of the House of Representative ( B) appointed by the President ( C) appointed by the Vice President ( D) elected by the members of the Congress 24 Between 1945 and 1951, the_government established an extensive health and welfare system and the “Welfare State“ had begun. ( A) Labour ( B) Liberal ( C) Republican ( D) Conservative 25 Kiwi is the national_of New Zealand. ( A) plant ( B) flower ( C) bird ( D) tree 专业英语八级(人文知识)模拟试卷 52答案与解析