1、专业英语八级(人文知识)练习试卷 6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 Which one of the four is NOT correct? ( A) English-speaking countries are UK, USA, Canada, Barbados, etc. ( B) English-speak
2、ing 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. 2 The famous short story The Fall of the House of Usher was written by _. ( A) Char
3、les Dickens ( B) Edgar Allen Poe ( C) John Richardson (Canadian novelist) ( D) Henry Savery 3 Which one of the following Ivy League Schools is situated in Connecticut? ( A) Yale University. ( B) Harvard. ( C) Princeton. ( D) Columbia. 4 The branch of linguistics which studies the forms of words is _
4、 MORPHOLOGY. ( A) phoneme ( B) morpheme ( C) semantics ( D) morphology 5 Who wrote a highly-acclaimed Novel Moby Dick? ( A) William James. ( B) Herman Melville. ( C) Ernest Hemingway. ( D) Cooper. 6 What is the name of the Lake in northern Utah of the U.S.A.? ( A) Lake Michigan. ( B) Lake Superior.
5、( C) Lake Erie. ( D) the Great Salt Lake. 7 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. 8 Among the four pillars of English literature,
6、 who was NOT born and raised in Ireland? ( A) Jonathan Swift. ( B) William Butler Yeats. ( C) James Joyce. ( D) Robert Browning. 9 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 (
7、D) southeastern part 10 _ is a satirist and the first writer in America to win the Nobel Prize in literature. ( A) Eugene ONeill ( B) Sinclair Lewis ( C) T.S. Eliot ( D) William Faulkner 专业英语八级(人文知识)练习试卷 6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】 D 【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】 A 【知识模块】 人文知识 4 【正确答案】 D 【知识模块】 人文知识 5 【正确答案】 B 【知识模块】 人文知识 6 【正确答案】 D 【知识模块】 人文知识 7 【正确答案】 C 【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】 A 【知识模块】 人文知识 10 【正确答案】 B 【知识模块】 人文知识