PART III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (10 MIN)

There are ten multiple-choice questions in this section．Mark the best answer to each question on

ANSWER SHEET TWO．

31．The full official name of Australia is

A．The Republic of Australia．B．The Commonwealth of Australia．

C．The Federation of Australia．D．The Union of Australia．

32. Canada is well known for all the following EXCEPT

A．its mineral resources．B．its forest resources．

C．its fertile and arable land．D．its heavy industries．

33．In the United States community colleges offer

A．two-year programmes．B．four-year programmes．

C．postgraduate studies．D．B．A．or B．S．degrees．

34. In ______，referenda in Scotland and Wales set up a Scottish parliament and a Wales assembly．A．2000 B．1946 C．1997 D. 1990

35．Which of the following clusters of words is an example of alliteration?

A．A weak seat．B．Safe and sound．

C．Knock and kick．D．Coat and boat．

36．Who wrote Mrs．Warren's Profession?

A．John Galsworthy．B．William Butler Yeats．

C．T．S．Eliot．D．George Bernard Shaw．

37．Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser is a(n)

A．novel．B．short story．

C．poem．D．autobiography．

38．Which Of t11e following italicized parts is an inflectional morpheme? A．Unlock．B．Government．

C．Goes．D．Off-stage．

39．_____ is a language phenomenon in which words sound like what they refer to.

A．Onomatopoeia B．Collocation

C．Denotation D．Assimilation

40．The sentence "CIose your book and listen to me carefully!" performs a(n) ____ function．A．interrogative B．informative

C．performative D．directive

2013年英语专八考试人文知识答案

31. 澳大利亚的全称是：the commonwealth of Austrilia

32. 加拿大以什么著称，除了什么以外（矿产、森林、肥沃的土地）。答案选the heavy industries.

33. 美国社区大学一般提供two-year制课程

34. 1997年苏格兰、威尔斯全民公决各自有了自己的议会

35. 哪一个是头韵法，答案：safe and sound

36 谁写的Mrs. Warren's Profession，答案是：George Bernard Shaw

37 Sister Carrie是神马东东，答案：novel

38 下面哪一个斜体部分为曲折语素，答案goes里面的es

39 听其音，知其意是神马东东，答案：拟音Onomatopoeia

40 "关上课本，认真听我讲“起的啥作用，答案：directive

TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (2012)

PART III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (10 MIN)

There are ten multiple-choice questions in this section. Mark the best answer to each question on ANSWER SHEET TWO.

31. The Maori people are natives of

A. Australia.

B. Canada.

C. Ireland.

D. New Zealand.

32. The British monarch is the Head of

A. Parliament.

B. State.

C. Government.

D. Cabinet.33. Americans celebrate Independence Day on

A. July 4th.

B. October 11th.

C. May 31st.

D. September 6th.

34. Canada is bounded on the north by

A. the Pacific Ocean.

B. the Atlantic Ocean.

C. the Arctic Ocean.

D. the Great Lakes.

35. Who is the author of The Waste Lana?

A. George Bernard Shaw.

B. W.B. Yeats.

C. Dylan Thomas.

D. T.S. Eliot.

36. Which of the following novelists wrote The Sound and the Fury?

A. William Faulkner.

B. Ernest Hemingway.

C. Scott Fitzgerald.

D. John Steinbeck.

37. "The lettuce was lonely without tomatoes and cucumbers for company" is an example of

A. exaggeration.

B. understatement.

C. personification.

D. synecdoche.

38. In English ifa word begins with a [l] or a [r], then the next sound must be a vowel. This is a (n)

A. assimilation rule.

B. sequential rule.

C.deletion rule.

D. grammar rule.

39. Which of the following is an example of clipping?

A.APEC.

B.Motel.

C.Xerox.

D.Disco.

40. The type of language which is selected as appropriate to a particular type of" situation is called

A. register.

B. dialect.

C. slang.

D. variety.

31: new Zealand

32: state

33: July 4th

34: the Arctic Ocean

35: T.S.Eliot

36: William Faulkner

37: personification

38: sequential rule

39: Disco

40: register

TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (2011)

PART III GENERAL KNOWLEDGEThere are ten multiple-choice questions in this section. Mark the best answer to each question on ANSWER SHEET TWO.

31. The northernmost part of Great Britain is _______.

A. Northern Ireland

B. Wales

C. England

D. Scotland

参：D

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

参：D

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.

参：A

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.

参：B

TIP：选B。《常识》是托马斯•潘恩在美国之前撰写的。

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

A. poet

B. biographer

C. playwright

D. novelist

参：D

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

参：C

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.

参：A

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

参：C

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

参：A

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

参：C

TIP：选C。Multilingualism的意思是“多语现象、多语制”。

TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (2010)

PART III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (10 MIN)

There are ten multiple-choice questions in this section. Choose the best answer to each question.

Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET TWO.

31. Which of the following statements in INCORRECT?

A. The British constitution includes the Magna Carta of 1215.

B. The British constitution includes Parliamentary acts.

C. The British constitution includes decisions made by courts of law.

D. The British constitution includes one single written constitution.

32. The first city ever founded in Canada is

A. Quebec.

B. Vancouver.

C. Toronto.

D. Montreal.

33. When did the Australian Federation officially come into being?

A. 1770.

B. 1788.

C. 1900.

D. 1901.

34. The Emancipation Proclamation to end the slavery plantation system in the South of the U.S.

was issued by

A. Abraham Lincoln.

B. Thomas Paine.

C. George Washington.

D. Thomas Jefferson.

35. ________ is best known for the technique of dramatic monologue in his poems..

A. Will Blake

B. W.B. Yeats

C. Robert Browning

D. William Wordsworth

36. The Financier is written by

A. Mark Twain.

B. Henry James.

C. William Faulkner.

D. Theodore Dreiser.37. In literature a story in verse or prose with a double meaning is defined as

A. allegory.

B. sonnet.

C. blank verse.

D. rhyme.

38. ________ refers to the learning and development of a language.

A. Language acquisition

B. Language comprehension

C. Language production

D. Language instruction

39. The word “Motel”comes from “motor + hotel”. This is an example of ________ in

morphology.

A. backformation

B. conversion

C. blending

D. acronym

40. Language is t tool of communication. The symbol “ Highway Closed” on a highway serves

A. an expressive function.

B. an informative function.

C. a performative function.

D. a persuasive function.

PART III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (10 MIN)

31. Which of the following is INCORRECT

答案D：The British Constituiton includes one single written constitution

答题技巧：首先注意题干INCORRECT, 根据常识判断英国为不成文；故本题选择D，其他选项更为细节，直接忽略跳过。

常识背景：

不成文是指不具有统一法典形式，而散见于多种法律文书，判例和惯例的。不成文的最显著特征在于，虽然各种法律文件并未冠以之名，却发挥着的作用。英国是典型的不成文国家。

英国是不成文法国家，没有典，但不是没有。英国是不成文的。而犯罪人进监狱并不是依据，而是依据刑法。英国刑法也是不成文的，英国是判例法国家，先前的判例对于定罪量刑作用相当大。英国还有陪审团，定罪方面由12人的陪审团根据具体案件过程来决定，一旦定罪，法官根据先例和经验来量刑。

32. The first city ever founded in Canada is

答案A：Quebec

答题说明：这个题目其实比较偏，笔者本人也是通过google 才知道答案。这里需要说明的是，人文知识完全靠平时点滴积累，考前强化背诵是没有意义的。我们不要指望人文知识考满分，因为出题者每次总会故意出一两道偏题。我们只要追求80%正确就不错了。以80分为目标，而不是100分。另外80分到100分拿到的证书都是一样的专八“优秀”。

关于本题的历史文化背景太复杂，在本文结束后会以附件形式发布出来。

33. When did the Austrlian Federation officially come into being?〈鸢窪：1901

答题说明：本题为英语国家概况基本常识题

34. The Emancipation Proclamation to end the plantation slavery in the south of US was issued by

答案A：Abraham Lincoln

答题说明：本题为美国历史常识题，林肯发布黑奴宣言

35．Who was best known for the technique of dramatic monologue in his poems?

答案C：Robert Browning

答题说明：本题为文学常识题

文化背景：罗伯特·勃朗宁（Robert Browning)（1812-18），维多利亚时期代表诗人之一。主要作品有《戏剧抒情诗》、《剧中人物》、《指环与书》等。与丁尼生齐名，是维多利亚时代两大诗人之一。他以精细入微的心理探索而独步诗坛，对⒚?0世纪诗歌产生了重要影响。朗宁对英国诗歌的最大贡献，是发展和完善了戏剧独白诗（Dramaticmonologue）这样一种独特的诗歌形式，并且用它鲜明而生动地塑造了各种不同类型的人物性格，深刻而复杂地展示了人的内在心理。

36. The Financier was written by

答案D：Theodore Dreiser

答题说明：本题为文学常识题

人文背景：西奥多·德莱塞（Theodore Dreiser，1871～1945），美国小说家。生于印第安纳州特雷霍特镇。父亲是贫苦的德国移民。他在公立学校接受了早期教育，以后进印第安纳大学学习。一生的大部分时间从事新闻工作。走遍芝加哥、匹兹堡、纽约等大城市，广泛深入地观察了解社会，为日后的文学创作积累了丰富的素材。代表作：《嘉莉妹妹》、《金融家》、《美国悲剧》等

37. In literature a strory in verse or prose with a double meaning is difined as

答案A：Allegory

答题说明：即使你不认识选项A，也可以通过排除法排除B. sonnet, C. blank verse, D. rhyme. 因为BCD涉及的主要是形式或音韵，不涉及内容和意义。

38．… refers to the learning and development of a language

答案A：language acqisition

答题说明：本题为语言学常识题。

背景知识：语言习得最基本的定义，其余选项一看就不符合题干内容。

39. The word “motel” comes from “motor –hotel”. This is an example of “…” in morphology.

答案C：blending

答题说明：本题为语言学分支形态学最基本常识，也是比较活跃的一种构词方式

背景知识：A 逆生法；B 转类法；C拼缀法；D 首字母构词

40．Language is tool of communication, the sybol “highway closed” serves

答案B：informative function

答题说明：语言学基本常识；认识选项单词都不会选错答案

TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (2009)

PART III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (10 MIN)

There are ten multiple-choice questions in this section. Choose the best answer to each question.

Mark your answers on your coloured answer sheet.

31. The Head of State of New Zealand is

A. the governor-general.

B. the Prime Minister.

C. the high commissioner.

D. the monarch of the United Kingdom.

32. The capital of Scotland is

A. Glasgow.

B. Edinburgh.

C. Manchester.

D. London.

33. Who wrote the Declaration of Independence and later became the U.S. President?

A. Thomas Jefferson.

B. George Washington.

C. Thomas Paine.

D. John Adams.

34. Which of the following cities is located on the eastern coast of Australia?

A. Perth.

B. Adelaide.

C. Sydney.

D. Melbourne.

35. Ode to the West Windwas written by

A. William Blake.

B. William Wordsworth.

C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

D. Percy B. Shelley.

36. Who among the following is a poet of free verse?

A. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

B. Walt Whitman.

C. Herman Melville

D. Theodore Dreiser.

37. The novel Sons andLovers was written by

A. Thomas Hardy.

B. John Galsworthy.

C. D.H. Lawrence.

D. James Joyce.

38. The study of the mental processes of language comprehension and production is

A. corpus linguistics.

B. sociolinguistics.

C. theoretical linguistics.

D. psycholinguistics.

39. A special language variety that mixes languages and is used by speakers of different languages

for purposes of trading is called

A. dialect.

B. idiolect.

C. pidgin.

D. register.

40. When a speaker expresses his intention of speaking, such as asking someone to open the

window, he is performing

A. an illocutionary act.

B. a perlocutionary act.

C. a locutionary act.

D. none of the above.

TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (2008)

-GRADE EIGHT-

PART III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (10 MIN)

There are ten multiple-choice questions in this section. Choose the best answer to each question. Mark your answers on your coloured answer sheet

31. The largest city in Canada is ________.

A. Vancouver.

B. Montreal.

C. Toronto.D. Ottawa.

32. According to the United States Constitution, the legislative power is invested in ________.

A. the Federal Government

B. the Supreme Court

C. the Cabinet

D. the Congress

33. Which of the following is the oldest sport in the United States?

A. Baseball.

B. Tennis.

C. Basketball.

D. American football.

34. The head of the executive branch in New Zealand is ________.

A. the President

B. the Governor-General

C. the British monarch,

D. the Prime Minister

35. The Canterbury Tales, a collection of stories told by a group of pilgrims on their way to

Canterbury, is an important poetic work by ________.

A. William Langland.

B. Geoffrey Chaucer.

C. William Shakespeare.

D. Alfred Tennyson.

36. Who wrote The American?

A. Herman Melville.

B. Nathaniel Hawthorne.

C. Henry James.

D. Theodore Dreiser.

37. All of the following are well-known female writers in 20th-century Britain EXCEPT

A. George Eliot.

B. Iris Jean Murdoch.

C. Doris Lessing.

D. Muriel Spark.

38. Which of the following is NOT a design feature of human language?

A. Arbitrariness.

B. Displacement.

C. Duality.

D. Diachronicity.39. What type of sentence is "Mark likes fiction, but Tim is interested in poetry."?

A. A simple sentence.

B. A coordinate sentence.

C. A complex sentence.

D. None of the above.

40. The phenomenon that words having different meanings have the same form is called

________.

A. hyponymy

B. synonymy

C. polysemy

D. homonymy

TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (2007)

-GRADE EIGHT-

PART III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (10 MIN)

31. The majority of the current population in the UK are decedents of all the following tribes

respectively EXCEPT

A. the Anglos

B. the Celts

C. the Jutes

D. the Saxons

32. The Head of State of Canada is represented by ________.

A. the Monarch

B. the President

C. the Prime Minister

D. the Governor-general

33. The Declaration of Independence was written by ________.

A. Thomas Jefferson.

B. George Washington.

C. Alexander Hamilton.

D. James Madison.

34. The original inhabitants of Australia were ________.

A. the Red IndiansB. the Eskimos

C. the Aborigines

D. the Maoris

35. Which of the following novels was written by Emily Bronte?

A. Oliver Twist.

B. Middlemarch.

C. Jane Eyre.

D. Wuthering Heights.

36. William Butler Yeats was a (n) ________ poet and playwright.

A. American.

B. Canadian.

C. Irish.

D. Australian.

37. Death of a Salesman was written by ________.

A. Arthur Miller.

B. Ernest Hemingway.

C. Ralph Ellison.

D. James Baldwin.

38. ________ refers to the study of the internal structure of words and the rules of word

formation.

A. Phonology.

B. Morphology.

C. Semantics.

D. Sociolinguistics.

39. The distinctive features of a speech variety may be all the following EXCEPT

A. lexical

B. syntactic

C. phonological

D. psycholinguistic

40. The word tail once referred to "the tail of a horse

animal." This is an example of ________.

A. widening of meaning

B. narrowing of meaning

C. meaning shift

D. loss of meaning

TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (2006)

-GRADE EIGHT-

PART III General Knowledge (10 min)

There are ten multiple-choice questions in this section. Choose the best answers to each question. Mark your answers on your coloured answer sheet.

31. The Presidents during the American Civil War was ________.

A. Andrew Jackson.

B. Abraham Lincoln.

C. Thomas Jefferson.

D. George Washington.

32. The capital of New Zealand is ________.

A. Christchurch.

B. Auckland.

C. Wellington.

D. Hamilton.

33. Who were the natives of Australia before the arrival of the British settlers?

A. The Aborigines.

B. The Maori.

C. The Indians.

D. The Eskimos.

34. The Prime Minister in Britain is head of ________.

A. the Shadow Cabinet

B. the Parliament

C. the Opposition

D. the Cabinet

35. Which of the following writers is a poet of the 20th century?

A. T. S. Eliot.

B. D. H. Lawrence.

C. Theodore Dreiser.

D. James Joyce.

36. The novel For Whom the Bell Tolls is written by ________.

A. Scott Fitzgerald.

B. William Faulkner.

C. Eugene O'Neil.

D. Ernest Hemingway.

37. ________ is defined as an expression of human emotion which is condensed into fourteenlines.

A. Free verse.

B. Sonnet.

C. Ode.

D. Epigram.

38. What essentially distinguishes semantics and pragmatics is the notion of ________.

A. reference

B. meaning

C. antonym

D. context

39. The words "kid, child, offspring" are examples of ________.

A. dialectal synonyms

B. stylistic synonyms

C. emotive synonyms

D. collocational synonyms

40. The distinction between parole and langue was made by ________.

A. Halliday.

B. Chomsky.

C. Bloomfield.

D. Saussure.

TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (2005)

-GRADE EIGHT-

PART III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (10 MIN)

There are ten multiple-choice questions in this section. Choose the best answer to each question.

Mark your answers on your coloured answer sheet.

31. ________ is the capital city of Canada.

A. Vancouver.

B. Ottawa.

C. Montreal.

D. York.

32. U.S. presidents normally serves a (an) ________ term.

A. two-year

B. four-year

C. six-year

D. eight-year

33. Which of the following cities is NOT located in the Northeast, U.S.?

A. Huston.

B. Boston.

C. Baltimore.

D. Philadelphia.

34. ________ is the state church in England.

A. The Roman Catholic Church.

B. The Baptist Church.

C. The Protestant Church.

D. The Church of England.

35. The novel Emma is written by ________.

A. Mary Shelley.

B. Charlotte Bronte.

C. Elizabeth C. Gaskell.

D. Jane Austen.

36. Which of following is NOT a romantic poet?

A. William Wordsworth.

B. George Elliot.

C. George G. Byron.

D. Percy B. Shelley.

37. William Sidney Porter, known as O. Henry, is most famous for ________.

A. his poems

B. his plays

C. his short stories

D. his novels

38. Syntax is the study of ________.

A. language functions

B. sentence structures

C. textual organization

D. word formation

39. Which of the following is NOT a distinctive feature of human language?

A. Arbitrariness.

B. Productivity.

C. Cultural transmission.

D. Finiteness.40. The speech act theory was first put forward by ________.

A. John Searle.

B. John Austin.

C. Noam Chomsky.

D. M. A. K. Halliday.下载本文