专业英语八级人文知识
1. All of the Great Lakes are shared between the United States and Canada EXCEPT (C) A. Lake Ontario B. Lake Superior C. Lake Michigan D. Lake Erie
2. Which group of people can Not vote in the British general election? (B) A. member in the House of Commons B. Lords in the House of Lords
C. the UK citizens above the age of 18
D. the UK resident citizens of the Irish Republic
3. Walt Whitman helped to promote the development of (D) A. sonnet B. couplet C. blank verse D. free verse 4. Speech is the primary medium of language.
5. The first English colony in America established in Jamestown.
6. In the 1960s, the Beatles became world famous and turned their hometown of Liverpool into a place of pilgrimage.
7. The Angles and Saxons are the ancestors of the English people today. 8. Prometheus Unbound was written by Shelly.
9. Walt Whitman’s O Captain! My Captain! was written in memorial of Lincoln.
10. Saussure puts forward the distinction between diachronic studies and synchronic studies. 11. The majority of back-formed words are verbs.
12. Illocutionary act is the act performed in saying something; it is an expression of the speaker’s intention.
13. Washington D.C, capital of the United States, is named after George Washington and Christopher Columbus.
14. English didn’t became the official; language of the English until 14th after the Hundred Years’ War.
15. Martin Eden is Jack London’s masterpiece and it is somewhat autobiographical. 16. The Input Hypothesis was put forward by Krashen.
17. A series of dynastic civil wars between supporters of the House of Lancaster and the House of York in the 15th century are also known as the wars of the Roses. 18. The oldest newspaper in Australia is The Sydney Morning Herald. 19. The Gift of the Magi was written by O’ Henry.
20. Nouns’ verbs and adjectives can be classified as open class words. 21. Which of the following sports originated from Scotland? (A) A Golf B Football C Basketball D Tennis
22. The Second largest racial and ethnic group in the United Stated is (B) A the white B the Hispanics C Chinese D the Blacls
23. Martin Luther King, Jr. who delivered a famous speech named I HAVE A DREAM was the leader of Civil Rights Movement in USA.
24. Which of the following is the largest province in Canada? (A) A Quebec B Saskatchewan C Ontario D British Columbia
25. Robert Louis Stevenson is a representative of Neo-Romanticism in English literature. 26. Both of phonology and phonetics are concerned with the study of speech sounds.
27. Male/female, married/single and alive/dead are examples of complementarity. 28. The Sapir-Worf hypothesis is about language and thought.
29. The symbol marking the declination of the British Empire is THE SUEZ CANAL CRISIS. 30. The colonists first settled in South Australia in Australia.
31.In the 20th century, under the influence of Freud’s theory of psycho-analysis, a number of writers adopted the stream of consciousness method of novel writing.
32. Componential analysis refers to an approach adopted by structural semanticists in describing the meaning of words and phrases.
33. Second Language Acquisition concentrates on code.
34. The components of the British Parliament: the House of Lord, the House of Commons and the Queen/King.
35. Quebec is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population.
36. The Australian National Day is chosen to commemorate the first European settlement of the continent.
37. The Catcher in the Rye was written by Jerome David Salinger.
38. Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s The School for Scandal has been called a great comedy of manners.
39. The type of language which is selected as appropriate to a type of situation is a register. 40. Quantity Maxim means that in conversation we should be as informative as required. 41. Canada is the second largest country in the word.
42. George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four is considered as an anti-utopian novel.
43. Toni Morrison is the first American black woman writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1.The Old Man and the Sea is one of the great works by ____
A Jack London B Charles Dickens C Samuel Coleridge D Ernest Hemingway 2.In which novel can \A John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress B Edmund Spencer's The Faerie Queen C Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels D Henry Fielding's Tom Jones
3.The Catcher in the Rye is written by ____
A J.D. Salinger B Jack London C Flannery O'Connor D Saul Bellow 4.The image of the famous \
A Washington Irving B Fennimore Cooper C Edith Wharton D William Dean Howells 5.The literary spokesman of the Jazz is often thought to be ____ A O'Neil B Pound C Robert Frost DScott Fitzgerald
6.____ is the most important person of the transcendental club. A Hawthorn B Whitman C Emerson D Hemingway
7. The main theme of Emily Dickinson is the following except____ A fridendship B love and marriage C life and death D war and peace 8.Robert Frost is a famous ____
A novelist B playwright C poet D literary critic 9.Dover Beach is written by ____
A Robert Browning B Alfred Tennyson C Mathew Arnold D Dylan Thomas
10.The period from 1865-1914 has been referred to as the ____ in the literary history of the United States.
A Age of Realism B Age of Clasicalism C Age of Romanticism D Age of Renaissance
答案详解：
1.D 《老人与海》是海明威的作品。
2.C Jonathan Swift的Gulliver's Travels（《格列弗游记》）中yahoo暗指人类，集人类丑陋面于一身，服务于动物的一类生物。 3.A The Catcher in the Rye（《麦田里的守望者》）是J.D. Salinger（J.D. 赛琳格）的名著。 4.A henpecked husband 是指“怕老婆的男人”，改典型形象出自Washington Irving 的Rip Van Winkle。
5.D 二十世纪出现Jazz Age，这一代的年轻人物欲膨胀，沉迷酒色。Scott Fitzgerald的 Great Gatsby《了不起的盖茨比》根据时代特征，对深深讽刺了所谓的美国梦。
6.C Emerson是超验主义的重要代表，所著Nature《论自然》代表了他的哲学观。 7.D Emily Dickinson（1709-1784），美国女诗人，终生未嫁。主要诗歌包括：I Could Not Sto for Death还有，I'm Nobody. Who Are You?
诗歌主题为：爱情，自然，友谊，死亡与不朽。 8.C Robert Frost是十九世纪的美国诗人，后因父亲过世已经英国，在新英格兰享有很高名望。主要作品有：The Road Not Taken，Mending Wall。 9.C Dover Beach（《多弗的海滩》）是Mathew Arnold 的作品。
10.A 1865-1914，也就是美国内战结束之后，第一次世界大战爆发之前。这个时候涌现的作家，比如Mark Twain刻画出美国经济政治发展引发的社会现实问题，包括“Gold Rush”。 1.____is the home of golf.
A England B Scotland C Wales D Ireland
2.Which of the follwing languages is NOT spoken in Scotland? A English B Scottish C Gaelic D Denish
3.The election of ____ made Margaret Thatcher to power and she became the first woman prime minister.
A 1979 B 1980 C 1982 D 1992
4.To its full sense, the British Parliament consist of ____ A the House Lord and the House of Commons B the House and the Senate
C the Queen and the Hosue of Lords
D the Sovereign, the House of Lords and the House of Commons
5.The Tower of London, a historical sight, located in the center of London, was built by ____ A King Harold B Robin Hood C Oliver Cromwell D William the Conqueror 6.There are ____ state churches in Britain. A two B three C four D five
7.When Oliver Cromwell died in 1658, and was succeeded by his son____, the regime began immediately to collapse.
A Henry B Hamilton C Richard D Charles
8.____ birthday is a great event in Britain since it marks the beginning of full manhood or
womanhood.
A The twenty-first B The eighteenth C The nineteenth D The twentieth 9.Reuters was founded in ____ A 1715 B 1751 C 1851 D 1815
10. What is (are) the nickname(s) of the U.S.A.?
A Uncle Sam B Brother Jonathan C Yankee D All of the above 答案详解：
1.B 高尔夫是一项古老的贵族的运动，源于十五世纪或更早以前的苏格兰，苏格兰地区山多，气候湿润，多雾，非常适合牧草生长，这里的工业文明以前是连绵不断的牧场。相传当时牧羊人放牧闲暇时，用木板玩游戏，将石子击入兔子窝或洞中。久而久之形成了使用不同的球杆并按一定的规则击球。
2.D Gaelic苏格兰盖尔语是高地苏格兰人的传统语言；更多人使用的语言是英语。一直到15世纪末，盎格鲁人仍然以他们的语言称苏格兰盖尔语为「苏格兰语」（盎格鲁语：Scottish）。 3.A Margaret Thatcher 在1979年成为英国首相，为英国史上第一个女首相。
4.D 具体的说，英国的议会是有元首，上议院和下议院组成。其中，元首没有实权，上议员由大法官（Lord Chancellor）掌权，是由神职议员（the Lord Spiritual）和世俗议员（the Lord Temporal），下议院的成员是通过选举产生的651名议员,以首相为首。 5.D 伦敦塔名为“塔”，实际上是公元11世纪处于罗马统治时期的一座城堡式建筑。
6.A英国有两大国教： 在英格兰是英格兰教（Church of England）或者英国圣公会，在苏格莎白的头衔全称为“托上帝宏恩，大不列颠及北爱尔兰联合国和她的其他领土和领地的女王、英联邦元首、基督教的保护者伊丽莎白二世”。可见，英/女王是基督教的保护者。
7.C Oliver Cromwell的儿子在父亲过世后继承王权，但是不久后掌控的政体瓦解。1660年，议会扶植流浪法国的前国王儿子Charle二世当国王。
8.A 在英国,21岁生日是个大生日,因为他们认为21岁是大人开始的年龄。
9.C 路透社是世界四大通讯社之一，也是英国创办最早的通讯社。1850年由保罗·朱利叶斯·路透 （paul julius reuter）在德国亚琛创办，1851年迁址到伦敦。创办人路透原为德国人，后加入英国籍。1865年，路透把他的私人通讯社扩展成为一家大公司。 10.D “山姆大叔”（Uncle Sam），“乔纳森大哥”和“扬基老”都是美国和美国人的绰号。 1. In area, the United States is the ____ largest country in the world. A 2nd B 3rd C 4th D 5th
2.The 50th state in America is ____
A Alaska B Texas C Hawaii D Rhode Island
3. Mauna Loa, the world’s largest active volcano, is located in ____ A Hawaii B Alaska C Texas D Perth
4. Richard Nixon resigned in 1974 because of ____.
A the Great Depression B the Black Power Movement C the Watergate Scandal D the Isolation policy
5.All the following universities are located in New England EXCEPT____ A Yale B Harvard C MIT D Berkeley
6.The United States has less than 6% of the world’s population; yet it produces about ____ of the total world output.