專八人文知識精選 1

__1__Where is Edinburgh?

A In Wales 　B In Scotland

C In Northern Ireland 　D In Ireland

__2__ Which of the following is Not a U.S. news and cable network?

A ABC 　B CNN 　C CBS 　D BBC

__3__The Capital of Australia is __.

A Sydney 　B Melbourne 　C Canberra 　D Perth

__4__ Which degree is offered in community colleges in the United States?

A Master’s degree 　B Doctor’s degree

C Bachelor’s degree 　D Associate’s degree

__5__ George Bernard Shaw was a(n) __.

A playwright 　B poet 　C novelist 　D essayist

__6__ John Galsworthy was most famous for__.

A Heart of Darkness 　B Ulysses

C The Forsyste Saga 　D A Passage to India

__7__ The novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was written by__.

A Henry James 　B O. Henry

C Harriet Beccher Stower 　D Mark Twain

__8__The study of how sounds are put together and used to convey meaning in condition is__.

A morphology 　B general linguistics

C phonology 　D semantics

__9__Which of the following is NOT a compound word?

A Landlady 　B Greenhouse

C Uplift 　D Unacceptable

__10__ The word holiday originally meant holy day; but now the word signifies any which we don’t have to work. This is an example of __.

A meaning shift 　B widening of meaning

C narrowing of meaning 　D loss of meaning

參考答案：

1-5 BDCDA 6-10 CDCDB

1. 選B. Wales的首府為Cardiff, Scotland的首府為Edinburgh. Northern Ireland的首府Belfast, Ireland的首府為Dublin。

2. 選 D。 BBC=British Broadcasting Corporation英國廣播公司, ABC=American Broadcasting Company, Inc美國廣播公司; CNN= Cable News Network美國有線廣播公司, CBS= Columbia Broadcasting System哥倫比亞廣播公司。

3. 選C。Sydney第一城市, 位于New South Wales州;Melbourne第二大城市位于Victoria州，Canberra位于Sydney與Melbourne之間;Perth位于Australia州。

4. 選D。 Associate’s degree是準(zhǔn)學(xué)士學(xué)位。

5. 選A。George Bernard Shaw (英國，蕭伯納)，愛爾蘭籍，劇作家，批評家，社會評論家，主要作品有Man and Superman, Back to Methuselah, Saint Joan <圣女貞德>，Arms and the Man, Pygmalion <賣花女>，獲得1925年諾貝爾文學(xué)獎。

6. 選C。John Galsworthy(英國),小說家，劇作家。主要作品有The Forsyte Saga<福塞特家史>，于1932年獲得了諾貝爾文學(xué)獎;Heart of Darkness,作者Joseph Conrad，波蘭籍英國小說家，另有Lord Jim <吉姆老爺>;Ulysses, 作者James Joyce, 愛爾蘭作家Finnergans Wake《為芬尼根守靈》; A Passage to India，作者E.M. Forster,英國小說家，另有Howards End霍華德別業(yè)。

7. 選D。Mark Twain= Samuel Langhorne Clemens,作品有The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; Henry James, 主要作品有Ambassadors, The Golden Bowl; O.Henry= William Sydney Porter, 主要作品有Cabbages and Kings, Four Million; Harriet Beecher Stower, 其反奴隸制小說Uncle Tom’s Cabin，促進(jìn)了廢奴運(yùn)動發(fā)展。

8. 選C。Linguistics語言學(xué), the study of human language,包括 Theoretical linguistic, Applied linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Cognitive linguistics和Historical linguistics.這里主要考Theoretical linguistics.

9. 選D。是derivation.

10. 選B。 從any day就可以知道 widening of meaning.