1、专业英语八级（人文知识）模拟试卷 78（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 During the British Civil War, the supporters of the king were called _（A）Cavaliers.（B） merchants.（C） Roundheads.（D）Scots.2 In th
2、e late 17th century, the most famous writers were _（A）John Bunyan and John Milton.（B） John Bunyan and John Donne.（C） John Donne and John Milton.（D）John Donne and Francis Bacon.3 The Renaissance began in_in the early 14th century.（A）Britain（B） Italy（C） France（D）Greece4 British English is spoken in _（
3、A）Great Britain.（B） Australia.（C） New Zealand.（D）A, B, and C5 Raising ones open hand with palm down to ones throat means “_“ in English culture.（A）Shame on you.（B） Im full.（C） Kill yourself.（D）Youre shorter than I.6 _River flows through New York State and into New York City.（A）The Mississippi（B） The
4、 Rio Grand（C） The Ohio（D）The Hudson7 Which group of words belongs to the close class?（A）Adjectives.（B） Adverbs.（C） Prepositions.（D）Nouns.8 Speech act theory is an important theory in the_study of language.（A）semantic（B） pragmatic（C） phonetic（D）morphological9 John Firth, Malinowski and Halliday are t
5、he representatives of _ School, known as Functional Linguistics.（A）Prague School（B） Copenhagen School（C） London School（D）Behaviorism School10 The novel Pride and Prejudice was written by the famous woman writer _（A）Charlotte Bronte.（B） Emily Bronte.（C） Jane Austen.（D）Jane Eyre.11 The Wars of Roses w
6、as ended by_who destroyed the forces of the two sides of the wars, and the feudal basis of society was completely broken.（A）Henry II（B） Henry VII（C） Henry VIII（D）Henry IV12 A cold dish of raw vegetables with a dressing is called _（A）hamburger.（B） sandwich.（C） salad.（D）pudding.13 The first known sett
7、lers of Britain were _（A）the Jutes.（B） the Celts.（C） the Saxons.（D）the Iberians.14 Ireland is called the Emerald Isle for its rich green countryside, but politically it is divided into two parts: _（A）Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland.（B） Southern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.（C） the Repub
8、lic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.（D）Northern Ireland and Britain.15 Hawthorne generally concerned himself with such issues as_in his fictions.（A）the evil in mans heart（B） the material pursuit（C） the racial conflict（D）the social inequality16 All his novels reveal that, as time went on, Mark Twain
9、became increasingly _（A）prolific.（B） artistic.（C） optimistic.（D）pessimistic.17 The English Renaissance period was an age of _（A）poetry and drama.（B） drama and novel.（C） novel and poetry.（D）romance and poetry.18 Most embedded clauses require an introductory word called a subordinator, such as “that,
10、until, before,_ , “ and so on.（A）so（B） if（C） for（D）but19 The most obvious and rapid change in the development of a language takes place in the area of _（A）pronunciation.（B） vocabulary.（C） grammar.（D）speech.20 “Lead(metal)“ and “ lead(dogs head)“ are spelt in the same way, but pronounced differently. This kind of sense relation is called _（A）polysemy.（B） antonymy.（C） homonymy.（D）hyponymy.
