专八人文：英国文学部分精选习题
The Renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events, which one of the following is not such an event?
A. The rediscovery of ancient Rome and Greek culture.
B. England's domestic rest.
C. New discovery in geography and astrology.
D. The religious reformation and the economic expansion.
Which of the following is regarded as the most successful religious allegory in the English language.
A. The Pilgrim's Progress
B. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
C. The Life and Death of Mr. Badman
D. The Holy War
It is alone who, for the first time in English literature, presented to us a comprehensive realistic picture of the English society of his time and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life.
A. Geoffrey Chaucer
B. Martin Luther
C. William Langland
D. John Gower
All of the following four except are the most eminent dramatists in the Renaissance England.
A. Francis Bacon
B. Christopher Marlowe
C. William Shakespeare
D. Ben Jonson
It is generally regarded that Keats's most important and mature poems are in the form of .
A. elegy
B. ode
C. epic
D. sonnet
Daniel Defoe's novels mainly focus on .
A. the struggle of the unfortunate for mere existence
B. the struggle of the shipwrecked persons for security
C. the struggle of the pirates for wealth
D. the desire of the criminals for property
In Beowulf, fought against the monster Grendel and a five breathing dragon.
A. the Anglo-Saxons
B. Beowulf
C. the Scandinavian
D. the Winter Dragon
Francis Bacon is best known for his which greatly influenced the development of this literary form.
A. essays
B. poems
C. works D plays
Most of Thomas Hardy's novels are set in Wessex .
A. a crude region in England
B. a fictional primitive region
C. a remote rural area
D. Hardy's hometown
We can perhaps describe the west wind in Shelley's poem "Ode to the West Wind" with all the following terms except .
A. swift
B. proud
C. tamed
D. wild
"Blindness", "partiality", "prejudice", and "absurdity" in the novel "Pride and Prejudice" are most likely the characteristics of .
A. Elizabeth
B. Darcy
C. Mr. Bennet
D. Mrs. Bennet
The modern English novel came into being in .
A. the middle of the 17th century
B. the 17th century
C. the late 18th century
D. the middle of the 18th century
Who is not the major figure of modernist movement?
A. Eliot
B. Joyce
C. Charles Dickens
D. Pound
Who is considered to be the best known English dramatist since Shakespeare?
A. Oscar Wilde
B. John Galsworthy
C. W.B. Yeats
D. George Bernard Shaw
Of the following poets, which is not regarded as "Lake Poets"?
A. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
B. Robert Southy
C. William Words worth
D. William Shakespeare In the first part of Gulliver's Travels, Gulliver told his experience in .
A. Lilliput
B. Brobdingnag
C. Houyhnhnm
D. England
Which of the following cannot describe "Byronic hero"?
A. proud
B. mysterious
C. noble origin D progressive
In the history of literature, Romanticism is generally regarded as .
A. the thought that designates a literary and philosophical theory which tends to see the individual as the very center of all life and all experience.
B. the thought that designates man as a social animal
C. the orientation that emphasizes those features which men have in common
D. the modes of thinking
The term "metaphysical poetry" is commonly used to name the work of the 17th century writers who wrote under the influence of .
A. John Milton
B. John Donne
C. John Keats
D. John Bunyan
"The Vanity Fair" is a well-known part in .
A. The Pilgrim's Progress
B. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
C. The Life and Death of Mr. Badman
D. The Holy War
In Oliver Twist, Charles criticizes .
A. money worshipping tendency
B. dehumanizing of workhouse system
C. hypocrisy of the upper society
D. distortion of human heart
Which of the following plays by Shakespeare is history play?
A. Julius Caesar
B. The Merry Wives of Windsor
C. Henry IV
D. King Lear
Who is regarded as a "worshipper of nature".
A. John Keats
B. William Blake
C. William Wordsworth
D. Jane Austen
Which of the following writing is not the work by Charles Dickens?
A. A Tale of Two Cities
B. Hard Times
C. Oliver Twist
D. Sons and Lovers
The 18th century England is known as the in the history.
A. Romanticism
B. Classicism
C. Renaissance
D. Enlightenment
专八人文：美国文学部分精选习题
In American literature, the eighteen century was the age of the Enlightenment. was the dominant spirit.
A. Humanism
B. Rationalism
C. Revolution
D. Evolution
Which statement about Franklin is not true?
A. He instructed his countrymen as a printer.
B. He was a scientist.
C. He was a master of diplomacy.
D. He was a Puritan.
Who is regarded as the first American prose epic.
A. Nature
B. The Scarlet Letter
C. Walden
D. Moby-Dick
The Romanic Period of American literature started with the publication of Washington Irving's and ended with Whiteman's Leaves of Grass.
A. The Sketch Book
B. Tales of a Traveler
C. The Alhambra
D. A history of New York
In Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, "A" may stand for .
A. Adultery
B. Angel
C. Amiable
D. All the above
The period before the American Civil War is generally referred to as .
A. the Naturalist Period
B. the Modern Period
C. the Romantic Period
D. the Realistic Period
The Age of Realism is the literary history of the United States refers to the period from to .
A. 1861 – 1914
B. 1863 – 1918
C. 1865 – 1914
D. 1865 – 1918
Who is described by Mark Twain as a boy with "a sound heart and a deformed conscience?"
A. Tom Sawyer
B. Huckleberry Finn
C. Jim
D. Tony
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
The impact of Darwin's evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the nineteenth-century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to yet another school of realism: American .
A. modernism
B. naturalism
C. vernacularism
D. local colorism
In 1900, London published his first collection of short stories, named .
A. The son of the Wolf
B. The Sea Wolf
C. The Law of Life
D. White Fang
In which of the following works, Hemingway presents his philosophy about life and death through the depiction of the bull-fight as a kind of microcosmic tragedy?
A. The Green Hills of Africa.
B. The Snows of Kilimanjaro.
C. To Have and Have Not.
D. Death in the Afternoon.
Which of the following figures does not belong to "The Lost Generation"?
A. Ezra Pound
B. William Carlos Williams
C. Robert Frost
D. Theodore Dreiser
Who is a dramatist that holds the central position in American drama the modernistic period?
A. Sinclair Levis
B. Eugene O'Neil
C. Arthur Miller
D. Tennessee Williams
The following writers were awarded Nobel Prize for literature except .
A. William Faulkner
B. F. Scott Fitzgerald
C. John Steinbeck
D. Ernest Hemingway
In 1954, was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature for his "mastery of the art of modern narration".
A. T.S. Eliot
B. Ernest Hemingway
C. John Steinbeck
D. William Faulkner
Who is the author of the work: "The Grapes of Wrath"?
A. John Steinbeck
B. Eugene O'Neil
C. F. Scott Fitzgerald
D. Theodore Dreiser
In 1920 Sinclair Lewis published his memorable denunciation of American small-town provincialism in .
A. Main Street
B. An American Tragedy
C. Winesburg, Ohio
D. Sister Carrie
专八人文知识：语言学部分精选试题
Which of the following statements about language is NOT true?
A. Language is a system
B. Language is symbolic
C. Animals also have language
D. Language is arbitrary
Which of the following features is NOT one of the design features of language?
A. Symbolic
B. Dual
C. Productive
D. Arbitrary
What is the most important function of language?
A. Interpersonal
B. Phatic
C. Informative
D. Metalingual
Who put forward the distinction between Langue and Parole?
A. Saussure
B. Chomsky
C. Halliday
D. Anonymous
According to Chomsky, which is the ideal user's internalized knowledge of his language?
A. competence
B. parole
C. performance
D. langue
The function of the sentence "A nice day, isn't it?" is .
A. informative
B. phatic
C. directive
D. performative
Articulatory phonetics mainly studies .
A. the physical properties of the sounds produced in speech
B. the perception of sounds
C. the combination of sounds
D. the production of sounds
The distinction between vowels and consonants lies in .
A. the place of articulation
B. the obstruction of airstream
C. the position of the tongue
D. the shape of the lips
Which is the branch of linguistics which studies the characteristics of speech sounds and provides methods for their description, classification and transcription?
A. Phonetics
B. Phonology
C. Semantics
D. Pragmatics
Which studies the sound systems in a certain language?
A. Phonetics
B. Phonology
C. Semantics
D. Pragmatics
Minimal pairs are used to .
A. find the distinctive features of a language
B. find the phonemes of a language
C. compare two words
D. find the allophones of language
Usually, suprasegmental features include ,length and pitch.
A. phoneme
B. speech sounds
C. syllables
D. stress
Which is an indispensable part of a syllable?
A. Coda
B. Onset
C. Stem
D. Peak
Which is the smallest unit of language in terms of relationship between expression and content? A. Word B. Morpheme C. Allomorph D. Root
Which studies the internal structure of words, and the rules by which words are formed?
A. Morphology
B. Syntax
C. Phonology
D. Semantics
Lexeme is .
A. a physically definable unit
B. the common factor underlying a set of forms
C. a grammatical unit
D. an indefinable unit
Which of the following sounds does not belong to the allomorphs of the English plural morpheme ?
A. [s]
B. [iz]
C. [ai]
D. [is]
All words contain a .
A. root morpheme
B. bound morpheme
C. prefix
D. suffix
The relationship between "fruit" and "apple" is .
A. homonymy
B. hyponymy
C. polysemy
D. synonymy
The part of the grammar that represents a speaker's knowledge of the structure of phrases and sentences is called .
A. lexicon
B. morphology
C. syntax
D. semantics
Which of the following items is not one of the grammatical categories of English pronouns?
A. gender
B. number
C. case
D. voice
The pair of words "lend" and "borrow" are .
A. gradable opposites
B. converse opposites
C. co-hyponyms
D. synonyms
"Big" and "Small" are a pair of opposites.
A. complementary
B. gradable
C. complete
D. converse
According to C. Morris and R. Carnap, which is studies the relationship between symbols and their interpreters?
A. syntax
B. semantics
C. pragmatics
D. sociolinguistics
There are deixis in the sentence she has sold it here yesterday.
A. 3
B. 4
C. 5
D. 6
In the following conversation:
- Beirut is in Peru, isn't it?
- And Rome is in Romania, I suppose.
The second person violates the .
A. Quantity Maxim
B. Quality Maxim
C. Relation Maxim
D. Manner Maxim
The maxim of requires that a participant's contribution be relevant to the conversation.
A. quantity
B. quality
C. manner
D. relation
专八人文知识考前模拟试题
１．Which one of the four is NOT correct?
A) English-speaking countries are UK, USA, Canada, Barbados, etc.
B) English-speaking countries are UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, etc.
C) English-speaking countries are USA, Canada, Australia, the Republic of Ireland, etc.
D) English-speaking countries USA, Canada, Australia, Egypt, etc.
２．The famous short story The Fall of the House of Usher was written by
A) Charles Dickens B) Edgar Allen Poe
C) John Richardson (Canadian novelist) D) Henry Savery
３．Which one of the following Ivy League Schools is situated in Connecticut?
A) Yale University. B) Harvard.
C) Princeton. D) Columbia.
４．The branch of linguistics which studies the forms of words is __ MORPHOLOGY..
A) phoneme B) morpheme
C) semantics D) morphology
５．Who wrote a highly-acclaimed Novel Moby Dick?
A) William James. B) Herman Melville.
C) Ernest Hemingway. D) Cooper.
６．What is the name of the Lake in northern Utah of the U.S.A.?
A) Lake Michigan. B) Lake Superior.
C) Lake Erie. D) the Great Salt Lake.
７．Who wrote Pygmalion which later was transformed into the highly popular New York Broadway musical My Fair Lady in 1956?
A) Edgar Allen Poe. B) Charles Lamb.
C) George Bernard Shaw. D) Alfred Tennyson.
８．Among the four pillars of English literature, who was NOT born and raised in Ireland?
A) Jonathan Swift. B) W'filiam Buffer Yeats.
C) James Joyce. D) Robert Browning.
９．Alaska lies in the of North America, stretching southward from the Arctic Ocean to the Pacific.
A) northwestern part B) southwestern part
C) northeastern part D) southeastern part
１０．Who is a satirist and the first writer in America to win the Nobel Prize in literature.
A) Eugene O' Neill B) Sinclair Lewis
C) TS. Eliot D) W'dliam Fanlkner
专八人文知识考前模拟试题2
The first capital of the young nation of the USA is .
A) Boston B) Philadelphia C) New York D) Washington
Which one of the following American cities is the birthplace of jazz?
A) New Orleans. B) New York. C) Boston. D) Chicago.
Who wrote one of the most enduring classic poem Ode to the West Wind ?
A) Wifiliam Wordsworth. B) Alfred Tennyson. C) Percy Shelley. D) David Bum.
When was Elizabeth I came to the throne of England?
A) 1538. B) 1548. C.1568. D) 1558.
When was Oxford University founded?
A) 1167 in Oxford, B) 1267 in Oxford.
C) 1367 in Oxford. D) 1467 in Oxford.
Canada is often described as a huge ~ centered on the Hudson and James Bay.
A) plate B) saucer C) cup D) bowl
In the literature of sociolinguistics, refers to a group of institutionalized social situations typically con strained by a common set of behavioural rules.
A) domain B) distribution C) dissimilation D) discourse
is a process in which part of the form is native and part is borrowed, but the meaning is fully borrowed.
A) loanshifting B) loanblending C) loan translation D) logical connection
What is the name of the woman poet who had her The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung up in America?
A) Anne Bradstreet. B) Maria Edgeworth. C) Jane Austen. D) Emily Dickinson.
Who wrote and published the philosophical work Essay Concerning Human Understanding?
A) John Milton. B) John Locke. C) Richard Steele. D) Joseph Addison.
专八人文知识考前模拟试题3
_ is the branch of linguistics which studies the characteristics of speech sounds and provides methods for their description, classification and transportation.
A) Phonetics B) Phonology C) Phoneme D) Phonetic typology
The sounds in the production of which there is an obstruction of the air-stream at some point the vocal tract are called .
A) consonance B) consonant cluster C) consistency D) consonants
In its technical sense here, __ deals with the analysis and creation of words, idioms and collocations.
A) pictogram B) lexicon C) word-formation D) ideogram
When was Longrnan Group UK Ltd was founded?
A) 1721. B).1722. C) 1723. D).1724.
What is the name of the dictionary compiled by Samuel Johnson?
A) First English Dictionary. B) Dictionary of English Language.
C) A Dictionary of the English Language. D) Dictionary of the English Language.
Who wrote and publish Poor Richard's Almanack?
A) Benjamin Franklin. B) John Gay. C) David Hume. D) Samuel Richardson.
Which one of the following four books was written by Harriet Stowe?
A) Roughing It in the Bush. B) Walden, or Life in the Woods.
C) Adam Bede. D) Uncle Tom's Cabin.
_ _ the capital of New South Wales, is the oldest and largest city in Australia.
A) Melbourne B) Sydney C) Darwin D) Canberra
, Valentine's Day, is sweethearts' day, on which people in love with each other express their tender emotions.
A) February 10th B) February 12th C) February 14th D) February 16th
Major Newspapers and Magazines in the USA are , etc.
A) New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Times
B) New York Times, Washington Post, The Sun, Times
C) New York Times, Washington Post, The Evening Post, Times
D) New York Times, Washington Post, Sunday Times, Times
答案：ＡＤＢＤＣＡＤＢＣＡ
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 .
2020年英语专八人文知识练习题2020年英语专八人文知识练习题 Part 1. Colonial America 殖民地时期的美国文学 Thomas Paine 托马斯·潘恩(1737-1809)： The Case of the Officers of Excise税务员问题; Common Sense常识; American Crisis美国危机; Rights of Man：Downfall of Despotism人的权利：****体制的崩溃; The Age of Reason理性时代 Philip Freneau 菲利普·弗伦诺(1752-1832)： The Rising Glory of America蒸蒸日上的美洲; The British Prison Ship英国囚船; To the Memory of the Brave Americans纪念美国勇士; The Wild Honeysuckle野生的金银花; The Indian Burying Ground印第安人殡葬地 Jonathan Edwards 乔纳森·爱德华(1702—1758)： The Freedom of the Will自由意志论; The Great Doctrine of Original Sin defended伟哉原罪论辩; The Nature of True Virtue 真美德的性质 Benjamin Franklin 本杰明·富兰克林(1706-1790)：
A Modest Inquiry into the Nature and Necessity of a Paper Money; Po or Richard’s Almanack穷查理历书; The Way to Wealth致富之道; The Autobiography自传 Part 2. American Romanticism 美国浪漫主义文学 Washington Irving 华盛顿·欧文(1783-1859)： A History of New York纽约的历史——美国人写的第一部诙谐文学杰作; The SketchBook见闻札记; The Legend of Sleepy Hollow睡谷的传说——使之成为美国第一个获得国际声誉的作家; Bracebridge Hall布雷斯布里奇田庄; Talks of Travellers旅客谈; The Alhambra阿尔罕伯拉 James Fenimore Cooper 詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库珀(1789-1851)： The Spy间谍; The Pilot领航者; The Littlepage Manuscripts利特佩奇的手稿; Leatherstocking Tales皮裹腿故事集：The Pioneer拓荒者;The Last of Mohicans最后的莫希干人;The Prairie大草原;The Pathfinder探路者;The Deerslayer杀鹿者
英语专八英美文学常识汇总
3专八人文知识:英国地理概况 the english channel: the channel is a narrow sea passage which separates england and france and connects the atlantic ocean and north sea. 英吉利海峡：英吉利海峡是一道狭长的海峡，分割英法两国，连接大西洋和北海。 the dee estuary: a small sea ( in irish sea) where the dee river enters. 迪河河口：是迪河流入的一个小海。 "the act of union of 1801": in 1801 the english parliament passed an act by which scotland, wales and the kingdom of england were constitutionally joined as the kingdom of great britain. 1801合并法：1801年英国议会通过法令，规定英格兰、苏格兰和威尔士根据宪法合并成为大不列颠王国。 gaelic: it is one of the celtic language, and is spoken in parts of the highlands. 盖尔语：是盖尔特语言的一种，在高地地区仍有人说这种语言。 the "backbone of england": it refers to the pennies, the board ridge of hills.
专八人文知识(练习题) 篇一：★英语专八人文知识题与答案 英语专业八级人文知识 试题(1) 美国概况练习题： 1. The traditional dividing line in America between “east” and “west” is_____. 2. The earliest part in America to be found and taken over by early settlers is ____. 3. The largest racial group in the whole population of U.S.A is____. 4. Before 2000, the largest minority group in the United States is____. has the world’s oldest written constitution and political party. 6. The economic problem caused by the depression in 1929 was eventually solved by____. years. institutions. 9. The three main levels of courts of the federal judicial system in America are____________. 10. _____ (which state ) is not governed by the common law. 练习题答案及题解:
英国文学 一、古英语时期的英国文学（499-1066） 1、贝奥武夫 2、阿尔弗雷德大帝：英国散文之父 二、中古英语时期的英国文学 1、allegory体非常盛行 2、Romance开始上升到一定的高度 3、高文爵士和绿衣骑士 4、Willian Langlaud 《农夫皮尔斯的幻象》 5、乔叟坎特伯雷故事集（英雄双韵体） 6、托马斯.马洛礼《亚瑟王之死》 三、文艺复兴时期的英国文学（伊丽莎白时代）（14-16世纪） 1、托马斯.莫尔《乌托邦》 2、Thomas Wyatt 和Henry Howard引入sonnet 3、Philips Sidney 《The defense of Poesie》 《阿卡迪亚》描述田园生活；现代长篇小说的先驱 4、斯宾塞《仙后》诗人中的诗人；斯宾塞体诗节； 5、莎士比亚： 长篇叙事诗：《维纳斯和阿多尼斯》、《露克丝受辱记》 四大悲剧：哈姆雷特、李尔王、奥赛罗、麦克白 7、本.琼森风俗喜剧（comedy of manners）《人性互异》 8、约翰.多恩“玄学派”诗歌创始人 9、George Herbert 玄学派诗圣
10、弗朗西斯.培根现代科学和唯物主义哲学创始人之一 《Essays》英国发展史上的里程碑 《学术的推进》和《新工具》 四、启蒙时期（18世纪） 1、约翰、弥尔顿：《失乐园》、《为英国人民争辩》 2、约翰、班扬：《天路历程》religious allegory 3、约翰、德莱顿：英国新古典主义的杰出代表、桂冠诗人； 《论戏剧诗》 4、亚历山大.蒲柏：英国新古典主义诗歌的重要代表；英雄双韵体的使用达到登峰造极的使用；《田园组诗》是其最早田园诗歌代表作 5、托马斯、格雷：感伤主义中墓园诗派的代表人物《墓园挽歌》 6、威廉、布莱克：天真之歌、经验之歌； 7、罗伯特、彭斯：苏格兰最杰出的农民诗人； 8、Richard Steel和Joseph Addison合作创办《The tatler》和《the spectator》 9、Samuel defoe 英国现实主义小说的奠基人之一；《鲁滨逊漂流记》；《铲除非国教徒的捷径》，仪表达自己的不满； 10、Jonathan Swift 《一个小小的建议》；《格列佛游记》；《桶的故事》； 11、Samuel Richardson 英国现代小说的创始人；帕米拉；克拉丽莎；查尔斯.格蓝迪森爵士的历史； 12、Henry Fielding 英国现实主义小说理论的奠基人；《约瑟夫。安德鲁》；《汤姆.琼斯》，英国现实主义小说的最高成就； 13、劳伦斯、斯特恩：感伤主义小说的杰出代表，《项狄传》，第一部开创了意识流小说的先驱之作品；《感伤的旅行》 14、Oliver Goldsmith：《好心人》；《屈伸求爱》；《威客菲尔德牧师传》，感伤主义文学； 诗歌《荒村》从新古典主义向浪漫主义过渡的标志； 散文作品《世界公民》； 15、谢里丹：《造谣学校》，莎士比亚之后最杰出的英国喜剧，是整个英国史上最优秀的作品之一；达到英国“风俗喜剧”之巅； 五、维多利亚时期的英国文学（19世纪）
2003年英语专八人文知识真题 31.is not a n atio nally observed holiday of America. [A] Christmas [B] Easter Sunday [C] Tha nksgivi ng Day [D] Independence Day 32.The uni versity of Dubli n was not foun ded un til . [A] the 19th cen tury [B] the 18th cen tury [C] the 17th cen tury [D] the 16th cen tury 33.The in troduced old-age pensions in New Zeala nd in 1898. [A] Labor Party [B] Democratic Party [C] Liberal Party [D] Con servative Party 34.Irish culture exp erie need a golde n age from to . [A] the eighth cen tury, the eleve nth cen tury [B] the seve nth cen tury, the ninth cen tury [C] the sixth cen tury, the eighth cen tury [D] the ?fth cen tury, the seve nth cen tury 35.Which of the follow ing writ ings is not the work by Charles Dicke ns? [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 moder ni stic p eriod. [A] Si nclair Lewis [B] Euge ne O'Neill [C] Arthur Miller [D] Tenn essee Williams 37.is often acclaimed literary sp okesma n of the Jazz Age. [A] Ernest Hemi ngway [B] F. Scott Fitzgerald [C] William Faulk ner [D] Ezra Pou nd 38.is a relati onship in which a word of a certa in class determ ines the form of others in terms of certa in categories. [A] Con cord [B] Immediate con stitue nt [C] Syn tagmatic relatio ns [D] Gover nment 39.studies the sound systems in a certa in Ian guage. [A] Pho netics [B] Phon ology [C] Sema ntics [D] P ragmatics 40.A lin guistic situati on in which two sta ndard Ian guages are used either by an in dividual or by a group of sp eakers is called . [A] situati onal dialect [B] sla ng [C] li nguistic taboo [D] bil in gualism 2004年英语专八人文知识真题 31.The followi ng are p roducts imp orted by Australia from Ch ina EXCE PT . [A] food [B] textiles [C] steel p roducts [D] electro nics 32.Scots regard as the most imp orta nt 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 P rime Mi nister in 1992. [A] Joh n Howard [B] Bob Hawke [C] Malcolm Fraser [D] Paul Keat ing 34.was known for his famous sp eech "I have a dream". [A] Joh n F. Kennedy [B] Marti n Luther Kin g, Jr [C] Abraham Li ncoln [D] Thomas Jeffers on 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 moder n novel its structure and style. [A] Daniel Defoe [B] Samuel Joh nson [C] Oliver Goldsmith [D] He nry Feildi ng 36.Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th cen tury America n writers, is well known for his . [A] international theme [B] waste-land imagery [C] local color [D] symbolism
英语专八人文知识考试总结 1 专八考试人文知识考试内容总结 其中英美文学包括英国文学和美国文学。英国文学主要分为六个时期： 1. Old and Medieval English Literature（中古英国文学）。 2. The Renaissance Period（文艺复兴时期）。 3. The Neoclassical Period（新古典主义时期）。 4. The Romantic Period（维多利亚时期）。 5. The Victorian Period（维多利亚时期）。 6. The Modern Period（现代时期）。 美国文学主要分为四个时期： 1. The Literature Around the Revolution of Independence（独立革命前后的文学）。 2. American Romanticism（美国浪漫主义文学）。 3. American Realism（美国现实主义文学）。 4. American Modernism（美国现代主义文学）。 语言学，考生不光要知道语言的本质还要掌握语音学，音位学，形态学，句法学，语义学和语言学的知识。 关于英语国家概况，英语专业的学生都会开设英美概况这门课程，但是专八考试的中需要考生了解的是英语国家概况，不光包括英国和美国，还有其他一些说英语的地区，包括爱尔兰概况，加拿大概况，澳大利亚概况和新西兰概况。 3专八人文知识:英国地理概况 the english channel: the channel is a narrow sea passage which separates england and france
专八人文知识总结(终) 英语专业八级考试人文知识 -- 文学 Ⅰ英国文学 一、 The Anglo-Saxon period古英语时期的英国文学（499-1066） The Song of Beowulf（贝奥武甫）：英国的民族史诗（epic），口头文学遗产 二、 The Anglo-Norman period中古英语时期的英国文学（1066-1350） 1、 allegory非常盛行 2、 Romance（传奇文学）：Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 高文爵士和绿衣骑 士 3、Geoffrey Chaucer乔叟: “Father of English poetry”被誉为英国诗歌之父,代表作The Canterbury Tales，首引入“英雄偶句体”(the Heroic Couplet)，。 4、Ballads 民谣：Robin Hood and Allin-a-Dale《罗宾汉和阿林代尔》。 三、 The Renaissance文艺复兴时期的英国文学（伊丽莎白时代）（14-16世纪） 1、 Thomas More托马斯·莫尔： Utopia《乌托邦》 2、 Thomas Wyatt 最先将sonnet引入英国文学。 3、 Philips Sidney锡德尼：An Apology for Poetry((also known as The Defense of Poetry)《为诗辩护》，这是伊丽莎白时代文学批评的最佳之作。Arcadia《阿卡迪亚》描述田园生活；现代长篇小说的先驱。 4、Edmund Spenser斯宾塞: The Fairy Queen《仙后》, the greatest epic poem of the time. 5、William Shakespeare莎士比亚：plays and sonnets 四大悲剧:《哈姆雷特》Hamlet《奥赛罗》Othello《李尔王》king Lear《麦克白》Macbeth 四大喜剧:《威尼斯商人》The Merchant of Venice 《仲夏夜之梦》A Midsummer Night's Dream《皆大欢喜》As You Like It《第十二夜》Twelfth night 7、Ben Johnson 本·琼森风俗喜剧（comedy of manners）《人性互异》 8、 John Donne约翰·多恩metaphysical poet“玄学派”诗歌创始人
精品文档 今日话题：辅音如何分类 1. 发音部位（places of articulation）：双唇音(bilabial)、唇齿音(labiodental)、齿间音(dental)等； 2.发音方法(manners of articulation)：、爆破音(stop)、摩擦音(fricatives)、破擦音(affricates)、鼻音(nasal)、边音(lateral)等； 3.声带状态：清辅音、浊辅音。 因此更正第七期第十道 10. 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 选择A而不是C 1. St. Lawrence and River Columbia are shared by both _b___ A America and Mexico B America and Canada C America and Cuba D America and Brazil 2. European settlement of Australia began in the late part of _c___ when a British penal colony was established on the east coast of the continent. A the 16th century B the 17th century C the 18th century D the 19th century 3. Which sport is supposed to be America's national sport and used to be call “American's favorable pastime”? a A baseball B basketball C rugby D cricket 4. The largest city in New Zealand is b____ A Auckland B Wellington C Christchurch D Dunedin 5. After Adam Bede,____wrote The Mill on the Floss and Silas Marner in which moral problems arediscussed and psychological analysis of characters are emphasized. A George Eliot B Jane Austin C George Dickens D Charlotte Bronte 6.All of the following odes are written by John Keats EXCEPT____ A Ode to Autumn B Ode to a Nightingale C Ode to a Skylark D Ode on Melancholy 7. Of____'s four famous comedies, the best known is Lady Windermere's Fan. A Oscar Wilde B Richard Sheridan C Bernard Shaw D Somerset Maugham 8. If the air stream meets with no obstruction when a sound is pronounced, it is a(n) __c__ A voiced consonant B voiceless consonant C vowel D explosive 9. The internationally accepted system of phonetic transcription is ____ A I.P.A B I.A.P.S C I.S.S D S.S.I.P 10. With the __d__, Latin words were added into the vocabulary of the language spoken in Britain. A invasion of the Romans B Christianization of Britain C Scandinavian invasion D Norman Conquest 答案 BCAAA CACAB 9. 国际音标（international phonetic alphabet）是目前世界上比较通行的音标，简称IPA，最初制定于1889年
2021年英语专业八级考试人文知识精选练习题 及答案2 1 _____is the largest city and the chief port of the United States. A Washington D.C. B Los Angeles C San Francisco D New York City 2 The flag of the United Kingdom, known as the union Jack, is made up of _____ crosses. A one B two C three D four 3 Washington D.C. is named after___________. A the U.S. President George Washington B Christopher Columbus C both George Washington and Christopher Columbus D none of them
4 _____ was the home of the Lake Poets William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor, Coleridge and Robert Southey of 19th century Britain. A Lough Neagh B Windermere C Lake District D Coniston Water 5 The first American president to be elected from the Republican Party was______. A Thomas Jefferson B James Monroe C James Madison D Abraham Lincoln 6 Of the fifty states, the smallest state in area is_____. A Rhode Island B Virginia C Texas D Montana 7 The national flag of the United States is known as_____.
Test 1 1.In Britain, where does the Changing of the Guard take place? a)Buckingham Palace. b)Downing Street. c)Victoria and Albert Museum. 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 represent fertility and new life, are those most frequently associated with Easter. 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 used 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? a)Phonology, syntax, semantics. b)Semiosis, syntax, frames. c)Frames, semantics, utterances. d)Sign, sign, signs. 9.Of the following word-formation processes, _______ 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 c) oxymoron d) metaphor
2014年英语专业八级人文知识试题及答案 1. The study of __ is Syntax. A textual organization B sentence structures C word formation D language functions 2. Which of the following is NOT a distinctive feature of human language? A arbitrariness B productivity C cultural transmission D finiteness 3. The speech act theory was first put forward by__. A John Scarl B Johan Austin C Noarn Chomsky D M.A.K Halliday 4. The capital city of Canada is __. A Montreal B Ottawa C Vancouver D York 5. U.S. presidents normally serve a (an) __ term. A eight-year B four-year C six-year D two year 6. Which of the following cities is NOT located in the Northeast, U.S. A Huston B Baltimore C Philadelphia D Boston 7. The state church in England is __. A The Baptist B The Roman Catholic C The Protestant Church D The Church of England 8. The novel Emma is written by__. A Jane Austen B Elizabeth C Gaskell Charlotte Bronte D Mary Shelley 9. Which of the following is not a Romantic Poet? A William Wordsworth
专八语言学练习 1. Which of the following feature is NOT one of the design features of language? a. Language is a system, b. Language is symboli c. c. Animal also have language, d. Language is arbitrary. 2. The fact that different languages have different words for the same object is good proof that human language is . a. arbitrary b. non-arbitrary c. logical d. non-productive 3. Which of the following terms best describes the "-ate" in the word "affectionate"? a. Derivational morpheme, b. Inflectional morpheme. c. Free morpheme, d. Prefix. 4. Which of the following teerms best describes the pair of words kill and dill? a. Minimal pair. b. A phonemic contrast. c. Closed class words, d. Bound morphemes. 5. What is the basic lexical relation between piece and peace? a. Synonymy. b. Antonymy. c. Homonymy. d. Polysemy. 6. /p/ is different from /b/ in . a. the manner of articulation b. the shape of the lips. c. the vibration of the vocal cords. d. the place of articulation. 7. Of all the speech organs, the is/are the most flexible. a. mouth b. lips c. tongue d. vocal cords 8. The phonological features, the consonant /t/ are . a. voiced stop b. voiceless stop c. voiced fricative d. voiceless fricative 9. The branch of linguistics that studies show context influences the way speakers interpret sentences is called . a. semantics b. pragmatics c. sociolinguistics d. psycholinguistics 10. The utterance "We' ve abeady eaten ten tons. " Obviously violates the maxim of . a. quality b. quantity c. relation d. manner 11. All the back vowels in English are pronounced with rounded-lips, i. e. rounded,