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专八2003-2015年人文知识真题及答案

2003年英语专八人文知识真题

31. is not a nationally observed holiday of America.

[A] Christmas [B] Easter Sunday [C] Thanksgiving Day [D] Independence Day

32. The university of Dublin was not founded until .

[A] the 19th century [B] the 18th century [C] the 17th century [D] the 16th century

33. The introduced old-age pensions in New Zealand in 1898.

[A] Labor Party [B] Democratic Party [C] Liberal Party [D] Conservative Party

34. Irish culture experienced a golden age from to .

[A] the eighth century, the eleventh century [B] the seventh century, the ninth century

[C] the sixth century, the eighth century [D] the ?fth century, the seventh century

35. Which of the following writings is not the work by Charles Dickens?

[A] A Tale of Two Cities [B] Hard Times

[C] Oliver Twist [D] Sons and Lovers

36. is a dramatist who holds the central position in American drama the modernistic period.

[A] Sinclair Lewis [B] Eugene O'Neill [C] Arthur Miller [D] Tennessee Williams

37. is often acclaimed literary spokesman of the Jazz Age.

[A] Ernest Hemingway [B] F. Scott Fitzgerald [C] William Faulkner [D] Ezra Pound

38. is a relationship in which a word of a certain class determines the form of others in terms of certain categories.

[A] Concord [B] Immediate constituent

[C] Syntagmatic relations [D] Government

39. studies the sound systems in a certain language.

[A] Phonetics [B] Phonology [C] Semantics [D] Pragmatics

40. A linguistic situation in which two standard languages are used either by an individual or by a group of speakers is called .

[A] situational dialect [B] slang [C] linguistic taboo [D] bilingualism

2004年英语专八人文知识真题

31. The following are products imported by Australia from China EXCEPT .

[A] food [B] textiles [C] steel products [D] electronics

32. Scots regard as the most important festival in a year.

[A] Near Year's Day [B] Christmas Day [C] New Year's Eve [D] Easter

33. The republican movement has been gathering momentum in Australia since became Prime Minister in 1992.

[A] John Howard [B] Bob Hawke [C] Malcolm Fraser [D] Paul Keating

34. was known for his famous speech "I have a dream".

[A] John F. Kennedy [B] Martin Luther King, Jr

[C] Abraham Lincoln [D] Thomas Jefferson

35. Of all the 18th century novelists, ______ was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a "comic epic in prose", and the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.

[A] Daniel Defoe [B] Samuel Johnson

[C] Oliver Goldsmith [D] Henry Feilding

36. Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his .

[A] international theme [B] waste-land imagery

[C] local color [D] symbolism

37. Hemingway's writing style, together with his theme and the hero, is greatly and permanently influenced by his experiences .

[A] in his childhood [B] in the war [C] in America [D] in Africa

38. English consonants can be classified into stops, fricatives, nasals, etc. in terms of .

[A] manner of articulation [B] openness of mouth

[C] place of articulation [D] voicing

39. Which of the following words can correct two clauses in a coordinate sentence?

[A] Through. [B] When. [C] But. [D] If.

40. is the smallest unit of language in terms of relationship between expression and content.

[A] Word [B] Morpheme [C] Allomorph [D] Root

2005年英语专八人文知识真题

31. is the capital of Canada.

[A] Vancouver [B] Ottawa [C] Montreal [D] York

32. U.S. presidents normally serve a (n) term.

[A] two-year [B] four-year [C] six-year [D] eight-year

33. Which of the following cities is NOT located in the Northeast, U.S.?

[A] Huston. [B] Boston. [C]Baltimore. [D] Philadelphia.

34. is the state church in England.

[A] The Roman Catholic Church [B] The Baptist Church

[C] The Protestant Church [D] The Church of England

35. The novel Emma is written by .

[A] Mary Shelley [B] Charlotte Bront? [C] Elizabeth C. Gaskell [D] Jane Austen

36. Which of the following is NOT a romantic poet?

[A] William Wordsworth. [B] George Elliot.

[C] George C. Byron. [D] Percy B. Shelley.

37. William Sidney Porter, known as O. Henry, is most famous for .

[A] his poems [B] his plays [C] his short stories [D] his novels

38. Syntax is the study of .

[A] language functions [B] sentence structures [C] textual organization [D] word formation

39. Which of the following is NOT a distinctive feature of human language?

[A] Arbitrariness. [B] Productivity.

[C] Cultural transmission. [D] Finiteness.

40. The speech act theory was first put forward by .

[A] John Searle [B] John Austin [C] Noam Chomsky [D] M.A.K. Halliday

参考答案：

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2006年英语专八人文知识真题

31. The President during the American Civil War was .

[A] Andrew Jackson [B] Abraham Lincoln [C] Thomas Jefferson [D] George Washington

32. The capital of New Zealand is .

[A] Christchurch [B] Auckland [C] Wellington [D] Hamilton

33. Who were the natives of Australia before the arrival of the British settlers?

[A] The Aborigines. [B] The Maori. [C] The Indians. [D] The Eskimos.

34. The Prime Minister in Britain is head of .

[A] the Shadow Cabinet [B] the Parliament [C] the Opposition [D] the Cabinet

35. Which of the following writers is a poet of the 20th century?

[A] T. S. Eliot. [B] D.H. Lawrence. [C] Theodore Dreiser. [D] James Joyce.

36. The novel For Whom the Bell Tolls is written by .

[A] Scott Fitzgerald [B] William Faulkner [C] Eugene O'Neill [D] Ernest Hemingway

37. is defined as an expression of human emotion which is condensed into fourteen lines.

[A] Free verse [B] Sonnet [C] Ode [D] Epigram

38. What essentially distinguishes semantics and pragmatics is the notion of .

[A] reference [B] meaning [C] antonymy [D] context

39. The words "kid, child, offspring" are examples of .

[A] dialectal synonyms [B] stylistic synonyms

[C] emotive synonyms [D] collocational synonyms

40. The distinction between parole and langue was made by .

[A] Halliday [B] Chomsky [C] Bloomfield [D] Saussure

参考答案BCADA DBDBD

2007年英语专八人文知识真题

31. The majority of the current population in the UK are decedents of all the following tribes respectivelyEXCEPT .

[A] the Anglos [B] the Celts [C] the Jutes [D] the Saxons

32. The Head of State of Canada is represented by .

[A] the Monarch [B] the President [C] the Prime Minister [D] the Governor-general

33. The Declaration of Independence was written by .

[A] Thomas Jefferson [B] George Washington

[C] Alexander Hamilton [D] James Madison

34. The original inhabitants of Australia were .

[A] the Red Indians [B] the Eskimos [C] the Aborigines [D] the Maoris

35. Which of the following novels was written by Emily Bront??

[A] Oliver Twist. [B] Middlemarch. [C] Jane Eyre. [D] Wuthering Heights.

36. William Butler Yeats was a(n) poet and playwright.

[A] American [B] Canadian [C] Irish [D] Australian

37. Death of a Salesman was written by .

[A] Arthur Miller [B] Ernest Hemingway

[C] Ralph Ellis on [D] James Baldwin

38. refers to the study of the internal structure of words and the rules of word formation.

[A] Phonology[B] Morphology[C] Semantics[D] Sociolinguistics

39. The distinctive features of a speech variety may be all the following EXCEPT .

[A] lexical[B] syntactic[C] phonological [D] psycholinguistic

40. The word "tail" once referred to "the tail of a horse", but now it is used to mean "the tail of any animal." This is an example of .

[A] widening of meaning [B] narrowing of meaning

[C] meaning shift [D] loss of meaning

参考答案CDACD CABDA

2008年英语专八人文知识真题

31. The largest city in Canada is .

A. Vancouver

B. Montreal

C. Toronto

D. Ottawa

32. According to the United States Constitution, the legislative power is invested in .

A. the Federal Government

B. the Supreme Court

C. the Cabinet

D. the Conress

33. Which of the following is the oldest sport in the United States?

A. Baseball.

B. Tennis.

C. Basketball.

D. American football.

34. The head of the executive branch in New Zealand is .

A. the President

B. the Governor-General

C. the British monarch

D. the Prime Minister

35. The Caterbury Tales, a collection of stories told by a group of pilgrims on their way to Canterbury, is an important poetic work by .

A. Willian Langland

B. Geoffrey

C. William Shakespeare

D. Alfred Tennyson

36. Who wrote The American?

A. Herman Melville.

B. Nathaniel Hawthorne.

C. Henry James.

D. Theodore Dreiser.

37. All of the following are well-know female writers in 20th-century Britain EXCEPT .

A. George Eliot

B. Iris Jean Murdoch

C. Doris Lessing

D. Muriel Spark

38. Which of the following is NOT a design feature of human language?

A. Arbitrariness.

B. Displacement.

C. Duality.

D.Diachronicity.

39. What type of sentence is "Mark likes fiction, but Tim is interested in poetry"?

A simple sentence. B. A coordinate sentence. C. A complex sentence. D. None of the above.

40. The phenomenon that words having different meanings have the same form is called .

A. hyponymy

B. synonymy

C. Polysemy

D.homonymy

参考答案BCADBBDACD

2009年英语专八人文知识真题

31. The Head of State of New Zealand is .

[A] the governor-general [B] the Prime Minister

[C] the high commissioner [D] the monarch of the United Kingdom.

32. The capital of Scotland is .

[A] Glasgow [B] Edinburgh [C] Manchester [D] London

33. Who wrote the Declaration of Independence and later became the U.S. President?

[A] Thomas Jefferson. [B] George Washington. [C] Thomas Paine. [D] John Adams.

34. Which of the following cities is located on the eastern coast of Australia?

[A] Perth. [B] Adelaide. [C] Sydney. [D] Melbourne.

35. Ode to the West Wind was written by .

[A] William Blake [B] William Wordsworth

[C] Samuel Taylor Coleridge [D] Percy B. Shelley

36. Who among the following is a poet of free verse?

[A] Ralph Waldo Emerson. [B] Walt Whitman.

[C] Herman Melville. [D] Theodore Dreiser.

37. The novel Sons and Lovers was written by .

[A] Thomas Hardy [B] John Galsworthy [C] D.H. Lawrence [D] James Joyce

38. The study of the mental processes of language comprehension and production is .

[A] corpus linguistics [B] sociolinguistics

[C] theoretical linguistics [D] psycholinguistics

39. A special language variety that mixes languages and is used by speakers of different languages for purposes of trading is called .

[A] dialect [B] idiolect [C] pidgin [D] register

40. When a speaker expresses his intention of speaking, such as asking someone to open the window, he is performing .

[A] an illocutionary act [B] a perlocutionary act [C] a locutionary act [D] none of the above

答案

31、D the monarch of the United Kingdom 32、B Edinburgh. 33、AThomas Jefferson. 34、

C Sydney 35、

D Percy B. Shelley36、B Walt Whitman. 37、C D.H. Lawrence. 38、D psycholinguistics.

39、C pidgin. 40、A an illocutionary act.

2010年英语专八人文知识真题

31. Which of the following is INCORRECT?

A. the British Constitution includes the Magna Carta of 1215

B. the British Constitution includes Parliamentary acts

C. the British Constitution includes decisions made by courts of law

答案D：The British Constitution includes one single written constitution

32. The first city ever founded in Canada is

A. Quebec

B. Vancouver

C. Toronto

D. Montreal

答案A：Quebec

33. When did the Australian Federation officially come into being?

A. B. 1788C. 1900D. 1901

答案D：1901

34. The Emancipation Proclamation to end the plantation slavery in the south of US was issued by

A. Abraham Lincoln

B. Thomas Paine

C. George Washington

D. Thomas Jefferson

答案A：Abraham Lincoln

35.Who was best known for the technique of dramatic monologue in his poems?

A. Will Blake

B. W.B.Yeats

C. Robert Browning

D. William Wordsworth

答案C：Robert Browning

36. The Financier was written by

A. Mark Twain

B. Henry James

答案D：Theodore Dreiser

37. In literature a story in verse or prose with a double meaning is defined as

A. allegory

B. sonnet

C. blank verse

D. rhyme

答案A：Allegory

38.____ refers to the learning and development of a language

A. language acquisition

B. language comprehension

C. language production

D. language introduction

答案A：language acquisition

39. The word “motel”comes from “motor –hotel”. This is an example of “…”in morphology.

A. backformation

B. conversion

C. blending

D. acronym

答案C：blending

https://www.wendangku.net/doc/9510947393.html,nguage is tool of communication, the symbol “highway closed”serves

A. B.C. a performative function D. a persuasive function

答案B：informative function

2011年英语专八人文知识真题

31. The northernmost part of Great Britain is _______.

A. Northern Ireland

B. Wales

C. England

D. Scotland

TIP：选D。英国最北端是苏格兰。

32. It is generally agreed that _______ were the first Europeans to reach Australia's shores.

A. the French

B. the Germans

C. the British

D. the Dutch

TIP：选D。1606年，荷兰航海家Willem Janszoon在约克角西岸登陆澳洲。1770年，英国人库克船长登上澳洲大陆并宣布它为英国领土。

33. Which country is known as the Land of Maple Leaf?

A. Canada.

B. New Zealand.

C. Great Britain.

D. The United States of America.

TIP：选A。加拿大被誉为“枫叶之国”。

34. Who wrote the famous pamphlet, The Common Sense, before the American Revolution?

A. Thomas Jefferson.

B. Thomas Paine.

C. John Adams.

D. Benjamin Franklin.

TIP：选B。《常识》是托马斯?潘恩在美国革命之前撰写的。

35. Virginia Woolf was an important female ________ in the 20th-century England.

A. poet

B. biographer

C. playwright

D. novelist

TIP：选D。弗吉尼亚?伍尔芙是英国著名小说家，第二次世界大战期间，她是伦敦文学界的核心人物。

36. ______ refers to a long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero in a nation's history.

A. Ballad

B. Romance

C. Epic

D. Elegy

TIP：选C。epic是“史诗、叙事诗”的意思。

37. Which of the following best explores American myth in the 20th century?

A. The Great Gatsby.

B. The Sun Also Rises.

C. The Sound and the Fury.

D. Beyond the Horizon.

TIP：选A。《天边外》是尤金?奥尼尔的著名戏剧作品，《太阳照常升起》是海明威的代表作，《喧哗与骚动》则是福克纳的代表作。《了不起的盖茨比》的作者是菲茨杰拉德的作品，反映了美国20世纪20年代到30年代的社会现实，对美国神话进行了另类诠释和解读。

38. _______ is defined as the study of the relationship between language and mind.

A. Semantics

B. Pragmatics

C. Cognitive linguistics

D. Sociolinguistics

TIP：选C。认知语言学认为，语言的创建、学习及运用，基本上都必须能够通过人类的认知而加以解释，因为认知能力是人类知识的根本。

39. A vowel is different from a consonant in English because of ________.

A. absence of obstruction

B. presence of obstruction

C. manner of articulation

D. place of articulation

TIP：选A。辅音主要是从肺部呼出的气流在通过口腔或鼻腔时遇到阻碍而发出的音，元音的发音与之最大的区别就是不受阻碍，不产生摩擦。

40. The definition "the act of using or promoting the use of several languages, either by an individual speaker or by a community of speakers" refers to _________.

A. Pidgin

B. Creole

C. Multilingualism

D. Bilingualism

TIP：选C。Multilingualism的意思是“多语现象、多语制”。

2012年英语专八人文知识真题

31. The Maori people are natives of

A. Australia.

B. Canada.

C. Ireland.

D. New Zealand.

32. The British monarch is the Head of

A. Parliament.

B. State.

C. Government.

D. Cabinet.

33. Americans celebrate Independence Day on

A. July 4th.

B. October 11th.

C. May 31st.

D. September 6th.

34. Canada is bounded on the north by

A. the Pacific Ocean.

B. the Atlantic Ocean.

C. the Arctic Ocean.

D. the Great Lakes.

35. Who is the author of The Waste Lana?

A. George Bernard Shaw.

B. W.B. Yeats.

C. Dylan Thomas.

D. T.S. Eliot.

36. Which of the following novelists wrote The Sound and the Fury?

A. William Faulkner.

B. Ernest Hemingway.

C. Scott Fitzgerald.

D. John Steinbeck.

37. "The lettuce was lonely without tomatoes and cucumbers for company" is an example of

A. exaggeration.

B. understatement.

C. personification.

D. synecdoche.

38. In English ifa word begins with a [l] or a [r], then the next sound must be a vowel. This is a (n)

A. assimilation rule.

B. sequential rule.

C.deletion rule.

D. grammar rule.

39. Which of the following is an example of clipping?

A.APEC.

B.Motel.

C.Xerox.

D.Disco.

40. The type of language which is selected as appropriate to a particular type of" situation is called

A. register.

B. dialect.

C. slang.

D. variety

参考答案

31. D. New Zealand 32. B. state 33. A. July 4th34. C. the Arctic Ocean 35. D. T.S.Eliot 36. A. William Faulkner 37. C. personification 38. B. sequential rule 39. D. Disco 40. A. register

Keys: 31. 澳大利亚的全称是：the commonwealth of Austrilia 32. 加拿大以什么著称，除了什么以外（矿产、森林、肥沃的土地）。答案选the heavy industries. 33. 美国社区大学一般提供two-year制课程34. 1997年苏格兰、威尔斯全民公决各自有了自己的议会35. 哪一个是头韵法，答案：

safe and sound 36 谁写的Mrs. Warren's Profession，答案是：George Bernard Shaw 37 Sister Carrie是神马东东，答案：novel 38 下面哪一个斜体部分为曲折语素，答案goes里面的es 39 听其音，知其意是神马东东，答案：拟音Onomatopoeia 40 “关上课本，认真听我讲”起的啥作用，答案：directive

2014

31. Which of the following is the French-speaking city in Canada?

A. Vancouver

B. Ottawa

C. Montreal

D. Toronto

32. Which of the following are natives of New Zealand?

A. The Maoris

B. The Aboriginals

C. The Red Indians

D. The Eskimos

33. The established or national church in England is

A. the Roman Catholic Church

B. the United Reformed Church

C. the Anglican Church

D. the Methodist Church

34. The 13 former British colonies in North America declared independence from Great Britain in

A. 1774

B. 1775

C. 1776

D. 1777

35. “Grace under pressure”is an outstanding virtue of ____ heroes.

A. Scott Fitzgerald’s

B. Ernest Hemingway’s

C. Eugene O’Neill’s

D. William Faulkner’s

36. Widowers’House was written by

A. William Butler Yeats

B. George Bernard Shaw

C. John Galsworthy

D. T. S. Eliot

37. Who wrote The Canterbury Tales?

A. William Shakespeare

B. William Blake

C. Geoffrey Chaucer

D. John Donne

38. Which of the following pairs of words are homophones?

A. wind (v.) / wind (n.)

B. suspect (v.) / suspect (n.)

C. convict (v.) / convict (n.)

D. bare (adj.) / bear (v.)

39. Which of the following sentences has the “S+V+O”structure?

A. He died a hero.

B. I went to London.

C. Mary enjoyed parties.

D. She became angry.

40. Which of the following CAN NOT be used as an adverbial?

A. The lion’s share

B. Heart and soul.

C. Null and void.

D. Hammer and tongs.

2015年英语专八人文知识真题

31. Which party is in power now in the UK?

[A]The Conservative Party.[B]The Labour Party.[C]The Liberal Democrats.

[D]The Scottish National Party.

32. Which of the following lakes does Canada share with the United States?

[A]Lake Winnipeg.[B]The Great Slave Lake.[C]The Great Bear Lake.[D]The five Great Lakes.

33. U. S. senators serve for ____ years after they are elected.

[A]four[B]six[C]three[D]two

34. Who were the natives of Australia before the arrival of the British settlers?

[A]The Eskimos.[B]The Maori.[C]The Indians.[D]The Aborigines.

35. ____ is best known for the technique of dramatic monologue in his poems.

[A]Robert Browning[B]W. B. Yeats[C]William Blake[D]William Wordsworth

36. Which of the following is a contemporary British poet?

[A]Ted Hughes.[B]William Wordsworth.[C]E. E. Cummings.[D]Carl Sandburg.

37. Who was the author of Moby-Dick?

[A]Nathaniel Hawthorne.[B]Ralph Waldo Emerson.[C]Herman Melville.[D]Washington Irving.

38. The words "tennis, badminton, golf, basketball and football" constitute a ____ field.

[A]semantic [B]connotative[C]conceptual[D]collocative

39. A: Do you like ice cream? B: Yes, I do.This is an example of ____.

[A]reference[B]substitution[C]conjunction[D]ellipsis

40. Which of the following is a voiceless consonant?

[A][ j ] [B][ w ][C][ p ][D][ l ]

专八2003-人文知识真题及答案精编版

2003年英语专八人文知识真题 31. is not a nationally observed holiday of America. [A] Christmas [B] Easter Sunday [C] Thanksgiving Day [D] Independence Day 32. The university of Dublin was not founded until . [A] the 19th century [B] the 18th century [C] the 17th century [D] the 16th century 33. The introduced old-age pensions in New Zealand in 1898. [A] Labor Party [B] Democratic Party [C] Liberal Party [D] Conservative Party 34. Irish culture experienced a golden age from to . [A] the eighth century, the eleventh century [B] the seventh century, the ninth century [C] the sixth century, the eighth century [D] the ?fth century, the seventh century 35. Which of the following writings is not the work by Charles Dickens? [A] A Tale of Two Cities [B] Hard Times [C] Oliver Twist [D] Sons and Lovers 36. is a dramatist who holds the central position in American drama the modernistic period. [A] Sinclair Lewis [B] Eugene O'Neill [C] Arthur Miller [D] Tennessee Williams 37. is often acclaimed literary spokesman of the Jazz Age. [A] Ernest Hemingway [B] F. Scott Fitzgerald [C] William Faulkner [D] Ezra Pound 38. is a relationship in which a word of a certain class determines the form of others in terms of certain categories. [A] Concord [B] Immediate constituent [C] Syntagmatic relations [D] Government 39. studies the sound systems in a certain language. [A] Phonetics [B] Phonology [C] Semantics [D] Pragmatics 40. A linguistic situation in which two standard languages are used either by an individual or by a group of speakers is called . [A] situational dialect [B] slang [C] linguistic taboo [D] bilingualism 2004年英语专八人文知识真题 31. The following are products imported by Australia from China EXCEPT . [A] food [B] textiles [C] steel products [D] electronics 32. Scots regard as the most important festival in a year. [A] Near Year's Day [B] Christmas Day [C] New Year's Eve [D] Easter 33. The republican movement has been gathering momentum in Australia since became Prime Minister in 1992. [A] John Howard [B] Bob Hawke [C] Malcolm Fraser [D] Paul Keating 34. was known for his famous speech "I have a dream". [A] John F. Kennedy [B] Martin Luther King, Jr [C] Abraham Lincoln [D] Thomas Jefferson 35. Of all the 18th century novelists, ______ was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a "comic epic in prose", and the first to give the modern novel its structure and style. [A] Daniel Defoe [B] Samuel Johnson [C] Oliver Goldsmith [D] Henry Feilding 36. Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his .

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