专八人文知识测试题16套含答案.doc
Test 1
1.In Britain, where does the Changing of the Guard take place?
a)Buckingham Palace.
b)Downing Street.
c)Victoria and Albert Muum.
d)The Tower of London.
2.What is a double-decker?
a) A bus.b) A chocolate bar.
c) A taxi. d) A two-storey building.
3.Of all the symbols, ________, which are considered to reprent
fertility and new life, are tho most frequently associated with Easter.bully
a)the pumpkin and the turkey
b)the lamb and the beef
c)the spring peas and the potatoes
d)the egg and the rabbit
4.The first landing by Europeans in Australia was in 1606, but
what is their nationality?
a) Dutch. b) French.
c) Spanish. d) British.
5.Middle English was ud by the poet _______.
a) Hardy b) Chaucer
c) Shakespeare d) Milton
6.“A Tale of Two Cities” w as written by ______.
a) William Shakespeare b) Goeffrey Chaucer
c) Charles Dickens d) Thomas Jefferson
7.Emily Dickinson wrote many short poems on various aspects of
life. Which of the following is NOT a usual subject of her poetic expression?
a) Religion and immortality. b) Life and Death.
c) Love and marriage. d) War and peace.
8.What three components, generally, make up a system of a
typical language?
hamadaa)Phonology, syntax, mantics.
b)Semiosis, syntax, frames.
c)Frames, mantics, utterances.
d)Sign, sign, signs.
9.Of the following word-formation process, _______ is the
most productive.
a) clipping b) blending
c) initialism d) derivation
10.“The pen is mightier than the sword.” is an example of ______.
a) metonymy b) transferred epithet东海大学
c) oxymoron d) metaphor
c) dialect d) narrative
Test 2
1.What is the affectionate name given to the clock tower of the
Hous of Parliament, Westminster?
a) Big Ben. b) Big Ken.
c) Big Bill. d) Big Bob.
2.Which of the sports did not originate in UK?
a) Cricket. b) Snooker.
c) Football (Soccer). d) Golf.
3.Which town has been nicknamed ‘Tinltown’ by the
Americans?
a) New Orleans. b) Reno.
c) Hollywood. d) Las Vegas.
4.What is the other official language in Canada besides English
and what is Canada’s capital?
a) French. Ottawa. b) Spanish, Ottawa.
c) Spanish, Toronto. d) French, Toronto.
5.Which English poet wrote of Adam and Eve’s expulsion from
the Garden of Eden in Paradi Lost?
a) John Donne. b) John Milton.
c) Sir Philip Sidney. d) Edmund Spenr.
6._______ died of tuberculosis at the age of 26, but not before
leaving an impressive body of poems, including “To Autumn”
and “Ode on Melancholy”.
a) John Keats b) Lord Byron
c) Samuel Taylor Coleridge d) Percy Bysshe Shelley
7.Walt Whitman was a pioneering figure of American poetry. His
innovation first of all lies in his u of ______, poetry without a
fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.
a) Blank ver b) Heroic coupletfreelance
c) Free ver d) Iambic pentameter
8.Of the following words, ______ is an initialism.
a) VOA b) NATO
c) BASIC d) UNESCO
9.Which of the following words is NOT formed through clipping?
a) Dorm. b) Motel.
c) Gent. d) Zoo.
10.A regional variety of a language that has variations in
pronunciation, vocabulary or meaning is called _______.
a) accent b) slang
c) Morphology. d) Semantics.
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1.The Channel Tunnel, linking the UK to the rest of Europe, runs
between England and ______.
a) France b) Germany
c) Belgium d) Netherlands
2.What’s the name of the day t apa rt in USA for planting trees?
a) Earth Day.b) Ann Arbor Day.
c) Arbor Day. d) Green Day.
3.What was the name of the ship that brought the Pilgrims to New
England in 1620?
a) Golden Hinde. b) Sunflower.
c) Mayflower. d) Titanic.
4.What are the official colours of Australia?
a) Red, White and Blue. b) Green and Gold.
c) Green and Brown. d) Green and Red.
5._______ is the first important governess novel in the English
literary history.
queen什么意思a) Jane Eyre b) Emma
c) Wuthering Heights d) Middlemarch
初中英语语法总结6._______ was a pre-Romantic writer and is best known for his
Scottish songs.
a) Sir Walter Scott b) Robert Burns
c) Samuel Taylor Coleridge d) William Blake
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7.Mark Twain did NOT write _______.
a)The Prince and the Pauper
b)The Old Curiosity Shop
c)Pudd’nhead W ilson
d)Tom Sawyer
8.Which of the following is NOT a dialect of English?
a) Slang. b) Buffalo.
c) American. d) Southern.
9.Some words in the basic word stock are said to be stablebet
