1、专业英语八级（人文知识）模拟试卷 53（无答案）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 Alexander Pope is a representative figure of neo-classicism, famous for his literary criticism,_and his poetry.（A）criticism on S
2、hakespeare（B） translation of Iliad and Odyssey（C） literary innovations（D）political influences2 _is the author of Catch-22, a masterpiece of black humor and irony.（A）John Barth（B） Kurt Vonnegut（C） Joseph Heller（D）James Jones3 The Victorian Age witnessed the flourish of English literature, mostly seen
3、 in_.（A）plays（B） novels（C） poetry（D）prose4 The word flu which comes from influenza is created through_.（A）blending（B） acronym（C） derivation（D）abbreviation5 Which of the following is NOT related to Noam Chomsky?（A）Deep structure（B） Language acquisition device（C） Transformational grammar（D）Textual met
4、afunction6 When a pidgin language is adopted by a community as its primary language and learned by children as a mother tongue, it is called_.（A）Creole（B） dialect（C） lingua franca（D）slang7 Britain was the first country to industrialize because of the following factors EXCEPT（A）Britain was well place
5、d geographically to participate in European and world trade.（B） Britain had large supplies of coal and oil, which was favorable for its industrial development.（C） British engineers had sound training and the inventors were respected.（D）Britain had a stable political environment with a parliament com
6、posed largely of capitalistic landowners and some merchants.8 In America, the three most influential newspapers are the following EXCEPT_.（A）New York Times（B） Times（C） Washington Post（D）Los Angeles Times9 Which of the following country is NOT located in the Northern Hemisphere?（A）Australia.（B） Brita
7、in.（C） Ireland.（D）Canada.10 The two official languages in Canada are_.（A）English and Spanish（B） English and Russian（C） English and French（D）English and German11 English Renaissance Period was an age of_.（A）drama（B） poetry（C） prose（D）novels12 _is the essence of the English Renaissance.（A）Chivalry（B）
8、Humanism（C） Heroism（D）Pessimism13 _is NOT an American-Jewish novelist.（A）James Langston Hughes（B） Saul Bellow（C） Isaac Bashevis Singer（D）Bernard Malamud14 Which of the following is NOT a fricative in English?（A）z（B） k（C） f（D）h15 The word bird once referred to “young bird“, but now it is used to mean
9、 “any kind of bird“. This is an example of_.（A）widening of meaning（B） narrowing of meaning（C） meaning shift（D）loss of meaning16 Which of the following is NOT a derivation?（A）lengthen（B） foolish（C） runaway（D）earthward17 _lie(s)between the boundary of Canada and the U. S. and serve(s)as the boundary b
10、etween the two countries.（A）The Mississippi River（B） The Great Lakes（C） The Rocky Mountains（D）The Grand Canyon18 In Britain,_has the ultimate authority of legislation.（A）the Monarch（B） the Cabinet（C） the House of Lords（D）the House of Commons19 The mother river in Canada is_.（A）St. Lawrence（B） River
11、Columbia（C） River Shannon（D）the Murray20 _is the smallest state in Australia and is also called “the Apple Isle and the Holiday Isle“ for its beautiful scenery.（A）Queensland（B） Victoria（C） New South Wales（D）Tasmania21 King Lear is one of Shakespeares_.（A）comedies（B） tragedies（C） histories（D）dramatic
12、 romances22 Song of Myself is the first poem of_collection of poems, Leaves of Grass.（A）Henry Wadsworth Longfellow（B） Walt Whitman（C） Samuel Taylor Coleridge（D）John Keats23 _is a 19th century American novelist.（A）Emily Dickinson（B） Henry David Thoreau（C） Edgar Allan Poe（D）Ernest Hemingway24 Which of the following is an abbreviation?（A）smog（B） WTO（C） bike（D）edit25 The study of relations between linguistic features and the social class of speakers is called（A）pragmatics（B） psycholinguistics（C） sociolinguistics（D）semantics
