英语专业八级人文知识练习.doc

英语专业八级人文知识练习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. Masters degree??????B. ?Doctors degree????C. ?Bachelors degree??????D. Associates 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 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 答案： BDCDA CDCDB 选B. Wales的首府威Cardiff, Scotland的首府为Edinburgh. Northern Ireland的首府Belfast, Ireland的首府为Dublin. 2. 选D BBC=British Broadcasting Corporation英国广播公司, ABC=American Broadcasting Company, Inc美国广播公司; CNN= Cable News Network美国有线广播公司, CBS= Columbia Broadcasting System哥伦比亚广播公司 3. 选CSydney第一城市, 位于New South Wales州；Melbourne第二大城市位于Victoria州，Canberra位于Sydney与Melbourne之间；Perth位于Australia州 4. 选DAssociate’s degree是准学士学位 5. 选AGeorge Bernard Shaw (英国，萧伯纳)，爱尔兰籍，剧作家，批评家，社会评论家，主要作品有Man and Superman, Back to Methuselah, Saint Joan 圣女贞德，A