专八人文知识真题2005-2013

英语专业八级考试历年全真试题（人文知识部分） （2005） PART Ⅲ GENERAL KNOWLEDGE（10 MIN） There are ten multiple-choice questions in this section. Choose the best answer to each question. Mark your answers on your coloured answer sheet. 31. ______ is the capital city of Canada.A. Vancouver B. Ottawa √ C. Montreal D. York32. U.S. presidents normally serves a (an) _________term.A. two-year B. four-year √ C. six-year D. eight-year33. 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 Bronte. C. Elizabeth C. Gaskell. D. Jane Austen. √36. Which of following is NOT a romantic poet?A. William Wordsworth. B. George Elliot. √ C. George G. Byron. D. Percy B. Shelley.37. William Sidney Porter, known as O. Henry, is most famous forA. his poems. B. his plays. C. his short stories. √ D. his novels38. 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. 任意性B. Productivity. 丰富性C. Cultural transmission. 文化传播性D. Finiteness. 局限性 ？注：design feature: features that define our human languages, such as arbitrariness, duality, creativity, displacement,cultural transmission, etc. 40. The speech act theory was first put forward by A. John Searle . .B. John Austin. √ C. Noam Chomsky. D. M.A.K. Halliday. （2006） PART Ⅲ GENERAL KNOWLEDGE（10 MIN） 31.The Presidents 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 Austrilia 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'Neil 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.Halliay B.Chomsky C.Bloomfield D.Saussure （2007） PART Ⅲ GENERAL KNOWLEDGE（10 MIN） 31. The majority of the current population in the UK are decedents of all the following tribes respectively EXCEPT . 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 Bronte? 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 Ellison 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 （2008） PART III  GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (10 MIN) There are ten multiple-choice questions in this section. Choose the best answer to each question. Mark your answers on your coloured answer sheet. 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 Congress. 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 Canterbury Tales, a collection of stories told by a group of pilgrims on their way to Canterbury, is an important poetic work by . A. William Langland. B. Geoffrey Chaucer. 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-known 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. 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. （2009） PART III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (10 MIN) There are ten multiple-choice questions in this section. Choose the best answer to each question. Mark your answers on your coloured answer sheet. 31. The Head of State of New Zealand isA. the governor-general. B. the Prime Minister. C. the high commissioner.  D. the monarch of the United Kingdom. 32. The capital of Scotland isA. 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 byA. 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 byA. Thomas Hardy. B. John Galsworth