1、专业英语八级（人文知识）模拟试卷 80（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 The highest mountain in Britain is _（A）Scafell.（B） Ben Nevis.（C） Snowdonia.（D）Belfast.2 In Britain,the Conservative Party and th
2、e Labor Party are the major political powers. In general election,_tend to be more inclined to support the Conservative Party.（A）the older and women（B） the young and men（C） university students（D）farmers3 _, located at the southern end of Lake Michigan, is the second largest city in the U. S.（A）New Y
3、ork（B） Washington D.C.（C） Chicago（D）Philadelphia4 Australia has always been a continent with few people mainly because _（A）Australia is too far away from Europe.（B） most of the continent is hot and dry.（C） Australia is separated from the rest of the world by seas.（D）Australia is the least mountainou
4、s and most level of the worlds continents.5 Which of the following historical events does NOT directly help to stimulate the rising of the Renaissance Movement?（A）The rediscovery of ancient Greek and Roman culture.（B） The new discoveries in geography and astrology.（C） The Glorious Revolution.（D）The
5、religious reformation and the economic expansion.6 After The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Twain gives a literary independence to Toms buddy Huck in a book entitled _（A）Life on the Mississippi.（B） The Gilded Age.（C） The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.（D）A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court.7 Dr. F
6、austus is a play based on the German legend of a magician aspiring for_ and finally meeting his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the Devil.（A）treasure（B） immortality（C） political power（D）knowledge8 The word “intolerable“ consists of_morphemes.（A）1（B） 2（C） 3（D）49 Which of the following s
7、entences is possible to arouse ambiguity?（A）Smoking cigarettes can be nauseating.（B） Tony is a dirty street fighter.（C） Fish and chip is delicious.（D）The man is too heavy to move.10 In_ , linguists probe into the possibility of combining linguistic theories and language teaching.（A）lexicology（B） pra
8、gmatics（C） pedagogy（D）applied linguistics11 The Romans leaded by_came with 10,000 soldiers and landed on the shore of Kent in 55 BC.（A）Claudius（B） Hadrian（C） Caesar（D）Plautius12 The largest lake in Britain is _（A）Lough Neagh.（B） Windermere Water.（C） Coniston Water.（D）Lake District.13 The largest and
9、 smallest states of the United States are _（A）Alaska and Rhode Island.（B） Texas and Maine.（C） Texas and Rhode Island.（D）Alaska and Maine.14 What is the Republic of Ireland called in Irish?（A）Irea.（B） Aire.（C） Eare.（D）Eire.15 Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his pro
10、duction of _（A）Piers Plowman.（B） Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.（C） Poems on London.（D）The Canterbury Tales.16 “If winter comes,can spring be far behind?“ is an epigrammatic line by _（A）John Keats.（B） William Blake.（C） Percy Shelley.（D）William Wordsworth.17 Walt Whitman was a pioneering figure of A
11、merican poetry. His innovation, first of all, lies in his use of_poetry without a fixed regular rhyme scheme.（A）blank verse（B） heroic couplet（C） free verse（D）iambic pentameter18 The pair of words “buy“ and “sell“ are _（A）gradable opposites.（B） relational opposites.（C） complementary opposites.（D）cont
12、radictory opposites.19 It is taken as a great contribution made by_that languages in the world are classified into different language families according to their genetic relations.（A）modern linguists（B） traditional grammarians（C） sociolinguists（D）historical linguists20 The basic components of a sentence include（A）a noun and a verb.（B） a subject and a predicate.（C） a noun and a predicate.（D）a subject and a verb.
