2011年英语专八人文知识真题

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2011年英语专八人文知识真题

  历年英语专八人文知识真题是专八考生参考复习的重要资料,不仅可以学习专八人文知识还可以用来自测,新东方在线整理了历年英语专八人文知识真题供考生们参考复习。

  31. The northernmost part of Great Britain is _______.

  A. Northern Ireland

  B. Wales

  C. England

  D. Scotland

  TIP:选D。英国最北端是苏格兰。

  32. It is generally agreed that _______ were the first Europeans to reach Australia's shores.

  A. the French

  B. the Germans

  C. the British

  D. the Dutch

  TIP:选D。1606年,荷兰航海家Willem Janszoon在约克角西岸登陆澳洲。1770年,英国人库克船长登上澳洲大陆并宣布它为英国领土。

  33. Which country is known as the Land of Maple Leaf?

  A. Canada. B. New Zealand.

  C. Great Britain.

  D. The United States of America.

  TIP:选A。加拿大被誉为“枫叶之国”。

  34. Who wrote the famous pamphlet, The Common Sense, before the American Revolution?

  A. Thomas Jefferson.

  B. Thomas Paine.

  C. John Adams.

  D. Benjamin Franklin.

  TIP:选B。《常识》是托马斯•潘恩在美国革命之前撰写的。

  35. Virginia Woolf was an important female ________ in the 20th-century England.

  A. poet

  B. biographer

  C. playwright

  D. novelist

  TIP:选D。弗吉尼亚•伍尔芙是英国著名小说家,第二次世界大战期间,她是伦敦文学界的核心人物。

  36. ______ refers to a long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero in a nation's history.

  A. Ballad B. Romance C. Epic D. Elegy

  TIP:选C。epic是“史诗、叙事诗”的意思。

  37. Which of the following best explores American myth in the 20th century?

  A. The Great Gatsby. B. The Sun Also Rises. C. The Sound and the Fury.

  D. Beyond the Horizon.

  TIP:选A。《天边外》是尤金•奥尼尔的著名戏剧作品,《太阳照常升起》是海明威的代表作,《喧哗与骚动》则是福克纳的代表作。《了不起的盖茨比》的作者是菲茨杰拉德的作品,反映了美国20世纪20年代到30年代的社会现实,对美国神话进行了另类诠释和解读。

  38. _______ is defined as the study of the relationship between language and mind.

  A. Semantics

  B. Pragmatics

  C. Cognitive linguistics

  D. Sociolinguistics

  TIP:选C。认知语言学认为,语言的创建、学习及运用,基本上都必须能够通过人类的认知而加以解释,因为认知能力是人类知识的根本。

  39. A vowel is different from a consonant in English because of ________.

  A. absence of obstruction

  B. presence of obstruction

  C. manner of articulation

  D. place of articulation

  TIP:选A。辅音主要是从肺部呼出的气流在通过口腔或鼻腔时遇到阻碍而发出的音,元音的发音与之最大的区别就是不受阻碍,不产生摩擦。

  40. The definition "the act of using or promoting the use of several languages, either by an individual speaker or by a community of speakers" refers to _________.

  A. Pidgin

  B. Creole

  C. Multilingualism

  D. Bilingualism

  TIP:选C。Multilingualism的意思是“多语现象、多语制”。

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