1、专八人文知识测试题16套含答案Test 11. 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
2、 are considered to represent fertility and new life, are those most frequently associated with Easter.a) the pumpkin and the turkeyb) the lamb and the beefc) the spring peas and the potatoesd) the egg and the rabbit4. The first landing by Europeans in Australia was in 1606, but what is their nationa
3、lity?a) Dutch. b) French.c) Spanish. d) British.5. Middle English was used by the poet _.a) Hardy b) Chaucerc) Shakespeare d) Milton6. “A Tale of Two Cities” was written by _.a) William Shakespeare b) Goeffrey Chaucerc) Charles Dickens d) Thomas Jefferson7. Emily Dickinson wrote many short poems on
4、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) Semiosi
5、s, syntax, frames.c) Frames, semantics, utterances.d) Sign, sign, signs.9. Of the following word-formation processes, _ is the most productive.a) clipping b) blendingc) initialism d) derivation10. “The pen is mightier than the sword.” is an example of _.a) metonymy b) transferred epithetc) oxymoron
6、d) metaphorTest 21. What is the affectionate name given to the clock tower of the Houses of Parliament, Westminster?a) Big Ben. b) Big Ken.c) Big Bill. d) Big Bob.2. Which of these sports did not originate in UK?a) Cricket. b) Snooker.c) Football (Soccer). d) Golf.3. Which town has been nicknamed Ti
7、nseltown 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 Canadas capital?a) French. Ottawa. b) Spanish, Ottawa.c) Spanish, Toronto. d) French, Toronto.5. Which English poet wrote of Adam and Eves expulsi
8、on from the Garden of Eden in Paradise Lost?a) John Donne. b) John Milton.c) Sir Philip Sidney. d) Edmund Spenser.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 Byronc) Samuel Taylor
9、Coleridge d) Percy Bysshe Shelley7. Walt Whitman was a pioneering figure of American poetry. His innovation first of all lies in his use of _, poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.a) Blank verse b) Heroic coupletc) Free verse d) Iambic pentameter8. Of the following words, _ is an init
10、ialism.a) VOA b) NATOc) BASIC d) UNESCO9. 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) slangc) dialect d) narrativeTest 31. The C
11、hannel Tunnel, linking the UK to the rest of Europe, runs between England and _.a) France b) Germanyc) Belgium d) Netherlands2. Whats the name of the day set apart 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 Pi
12、lgrims 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.a) Jane Eyre b
13、) Emmac) Wuthering Heights d) Middlemarch6. _ was a pre-Romantic writer and is best known for his Scottish songs.a) Sir Walter Scott b) Robert Burnsc) Samuel Taylor Coleridge d) William Blake7. Mark Twain did NOT write _.a) The Prince and the Pauper b) The Old Curiosity Shopc) Puddnhead Wilsond) Tom
14、 Sawyer8. 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 stable because they _.a) are complex wordsb) are technical wordsc) refer to the commonest things in lifed) denote the most important concept
15、s10. What is defined as “the study of sentence structure”?a) Syntax. b) Phonology.c) Morphology. d) Semantics.Test 41. What colour is the British classified business telephone directory?a) Yellow. b) White.c) Blue. d) Pink.2. What does IMF stand for?a) International Monetary Foundation.b) Internatio
16、nal Monetary Fund.c) Internal Money Foundation.d) Internal Monetary Fund.3. What do Americans celebrate on 4th July?a) Thanksgiving Day. b) The Revolution.c) The Discovery of America. d) Independence Day.4. What is Canadas national animal?a) Beaver. b) Moose.c) Bear. d) Husky.5. Which play by Shakes
17、peare is not a tragedy?a) Titus Andronicus. b) Pericles, Prince of Tyre.c) Coriolanus. d) Timon of Athens.6. What is the book Lord of the Flies about?a) A road trip around the USA.b) A swarm of killer flies.c) Schoolboys on a desert island.d) An expert pilot.7. Nathaniel Hawthorne did NOT write _.a)
18、 The Scarlet Letter b) Twice Told Talesc) The Blithedale Romance d) Vanity Fair8. Morphology is _.a) how a words meaning evolves over timeb) the way a language builds words by putting small, meaningful units togetherc) how a words spelling evolves over timed) in what order words are put in a sentenc
19、e9. Which of the following words can be described as containing an affricate?a) Pill. b) Huffle.c) Hammer. d) Budged.10. The word _ is usually NOT used by British people.a) “tube” b) “pub”c) “railroad” d) “taxi”Test 51. In the United Kingdom, ministers are appointed by the Queen on the recommendatio
20、n of _.a) the Speaker b) the Lord Chancellorc) the Duke of Edinburgh d) the Prime Minister2. Who was the first person to walk on the moon?a) John Glenn. b) Clint Eastwood.c) Neil Armstrong. d) Yuri Gagarin.3. How many states are there in the US?a) 49. b) 50. c) 51. d) 52.4. What is the title of Cana
21、das national anthem?a) True Patriot Love. b) God Save the Queen.c) Canada My Country. d) O Canada.5. Who wrote “Where ignorance is bliss, it is folly to be wise”?a) Browning. b) Marx.c) Shakespeare. d) Kipling.6. _ is the author of “To a Skylark”.a) Mary Lamb b) John Keatsc) Percy Bysshe Shelley d)
22、Lord Byron7. Henry David Thoreaus work, _, has always been regarded as a masterpiece of New England Transcendentalism.a) Walden b) The pioneersc) Nature d) Song of Myself8. What is etymology?a) The history of a word.b) The various ways in which a word can be pronounced.c) The study of unwritten lang
23、uages.d) The study of dead languages.9. _ are bound morphemes because they cannot be used as separate words.a) Roots. b) Stems.c) Affixes. d) Compounds.10. What is the dominant accent in the United States?a) Midwest. b) General American.c) Southern. d) Canadian.Test 61. The vegetable, leek, is the e
24、mblem for which part of the UK?a) Wales. b) Northern Ireland.c) Scotland. d) England.2. John Lennon is a member of the band of _ in the 1960s.a) The Beatles b) The Policec) The Rolling Stones d) The Eagles3. What is the title of the United States of Americas national anthem?a) America the Beautiful.
25、 b) We Are The Champions.c) God Bless America. d) The Star Spangled Banner.4. How many territories are there in Canada?a) 4. b) 2. c) 3. d) 1.5. In Gullivers Travels, Jonathan Swift describes the island of the Houyhnhnms as the worlds most perfect society. What kind of animals are the Houyhnhnms?a)
26、Monkeys. b) Fish.c) Dogs. d) Horses.6. In which century were Geoffrey Chaucers Canterbury Tales written?a) Fourteenth. b) fifteenth.c) Sixteenth. d) Seventeenth.7. With Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the literary scene, _ became the major trend in American literature in the seventies and e
27、ighties of the 19th century.a) sentimentalism b) romanticismc) realism d) naturalism8. To which of these language groups does English belong?a) Romance. b) Germanic.c) Slavonic. d) Baltic.9. “Present” and “absent” form a pair of _.a) conversives b) gradable antonymsc) complementary antonyms d) marke
28、d antonyms10. The morpheme is the smallest syntactical unit. How many morphemes does the word “antidisestablishmentarianism” have?a) 1. b) 5. c) 7. d) 6.Test 71. What is the name of the famous stadium in the north of London?a) Wembley. b) Westminster.c) Wimbledon. d) Webster.2. What would you do wit
29、h a “toad-in-the-hole”?a) Let it out. b) Sing it.c) Eat it. d) Play it.3. Martin Luther King Jr., a young black clergyman, became a national leader of the _ Movement.a) Boycott b) Civil Rightsc) Segregation d) Integration4. The majority of French-speaking Canadians live in _.a) New Brunswick b) Ontarioc) Quebec d) Nova Scotia5. Sir Thomas More coined the word “Utopia”. What does the word mean in Greek?a) Nowhere land. b) Gods blessings.c) Kingdom in the sky. d) Free from all sorrow.6. Where did Aldous Huxley get the title for Brave New World, which presents a chilling vi
