歷年八級真題-人文知識

歷年八級真題--人文知識

2005-2012英語系：胡波20051.

The

study

of

is

Syntax.A

textual

organizationB

sentence

structuresC

word

formationD

language

functions

2.

Which

of

the

following

is

NOT

a

distinctive

feature

ofhuman

language?A

arbitrariness B

productivityC

cultural

transmission

D

finiteness?3.

The

speech

act

theory

was

first

put

forward

by

.A

John

Searle B

John

AustinC

Noam

Chomsky

D

M.A.K

Halliday4.

The

capital

city

of

Canada

is

.A

Montreal

B

OttawaC

Vancouver

D

York?5.

U.S.

presidents

normally

serve

a

(an)

term.A

eight-year

B

four-yearC

six-year D

two

year6.

Which

of

the

following

cities

is

NOT

located

in

theNortheast,

U.S.A

Huston B

BaltimoreC

Philadelphia

D

Boston7.

The

state

church

in

England

is

.A

The

BaptistB

The

Roman

CatholicC

The

Protestant

ChurchD

The

Church

of

England8.

The

novel

Emma

is

written

by

.A

Jane

AustenB

ElizabethC

Gaskell

Charlotte

BronteD

Mary

Shelley?9.

Which

of

the

following

is

not

a

Romantic

Poet?A

William

WordsworthB

Percy

B.

ShelleyC

George

G.

ByronD

George

Eliot

10.

William

Sidney

Porter,

known

as

O.Henry,

is

mostfamous

for

.A

his

poem B

his

playsC

His

novels

D

his

short

stories2006年英語專八人文知識真題B.

Abraham

LincolnD.

George

Washington31.

The

Presidents

during

the

American

Civil

War

wasA.

Andrew

JacksonC.

Thomas

Jefferson32.

The

capital

of

New

Zealand

is...A.

Christchurch

B.

AucklandC.

Wellington

D.

Hamilton

33.

Who

were

the

natives

of

Australia

before

thearrival

of

the

British

settlers?A.

The

Aborigines

B.

The

MaoriC.

The

Indians

D.

The

Eskimos34.

The

Prime

Minister

in

Britain

is

head

of...A.

the

Shadow

CabinetC.

the

OppositionB.

the

ParliamentD.

the

Cabinet

35.

Which

of

the

following

writers

is

a

poet

of

the20th

century?A.

T.S.Eliot

B.

D.H.LawrenceC.

Theodore

Dreiser

D.

James

Joyce36.

The

novel

For

Whom

the

Bell

Tolls

is

written

by.A.

Scott

Fitzgerald

B.

William

FaulknerC.

Eugene

O"Neil

D.

Ernest

Hemingway

37.

is

defined

as

an

expression

of

human

emotiowhich

is

condensed

into

fourteen

lines.B.

SonnetD.

EpigramA.

Free

verseC.

Ode

38.

What

essentially

distinguishes

semantics

andpragmatics

is

the

notion

of...A.

referenceC.

antonymyB.

meaningD.

context39.

The

words

"kid,

child,

offspring"

are

examples

ofA.

dialectal

synonyms

B.

stylistic

synonymsC.

emotive

synonyms

D.

collocational

synonyms

40.

The

distinction

between

parole

and

langue

was

madby...A.

HallidayB.

ChomskyC.

BloomfieldD.

Saussure2007年英語專八人文知識真題

31.

The

majority

of

the

current

population

in

the

UK

aredecedents

of

all

the

following

tribes

respectively

EXCEPTA.

the

Anglos

B.

the

CeltsC.

the

Jutes D.

the

Saxons32.

The

Head

of

State

of

Canada

is

represented

byA.

the

Monarch B.

the

PresidentC.

the

Prime

Minister

D.

the

Governor-general33.

The

Declaration

of

Independence

was

written

byA.

Thomas

Jefferson B.

George

WashingtonC.

Alexander

Hamilton

D.

James

Madison34.

The

original

inhabitants

of

Australia

wereA.

the

Red

Indians

B.

the

EskimosC.

the

Aborigines D.

the

Maoris

35.

Which

of

the

following

novels

was

written

by

EmilyBronte?A.

Oliver

Twist

B.

MiddlemarchC.

Jane

Eyre D.

Wuthering

Heights

36.

William

Butler

Yeats

was

a(n)

poet

andplaywright.A.

American

B.

Canadian

C.

Irish

D.

AustralianB.

Ernest

HemingwayD.

James

Baldwin37.

Death

of

a

Salesman

was

written

byA.

Arthur

MillerC.

Ralph

Ellison

38.

refers

to

the

study

of

the

internalstructure

of

words

and

the

rules

of

word

formation.A.

PhonologyC.

SemanticsB.

MorphologyD.

Sociolinguistics

39.

The

distinctive

features

of

a

speech

variety

may

be

althe

following

EXCEPTB.

syntacticD.

psycholinguisticA.

lexicalC.

phonological

40.

The

word

tail

once

referred

to

“the

tail

of

a

horse”

but

now

it

is

used

to

mean

“the

tail

of

any

animal.”

This

an

example

ofA.

widening

of

meaningC.

meaning

shiftB.

narrowing

of

meaningD.

loss

of

meaning2008年英語專業(yè)八級考試人文知識測試及答案31.

The

largest

city

in

Canada

isA.

Vancouver.

B.

Montreal.

C.

Toronto

D.

Ottawa.

32.

According

to

the

United

States

Constitution,

thelegislative

power

is

invested

inB.

the

Supreme

Court.D.

the

Congress.A.

the

Federal

Government.C.

the

Cabinet.

33.

Which

of

the

following

is

the

oldest

sport

in

the

UniteStates?A.

Baseball. B.

Tennis.C.

Basketball. D.

American

football.B.

the

Governor-General.D.

the

Prime

Minister.34.

The

head

of

the

executive

branch

in

New

Zealand

isA.

the

President.C.

the

British

monarch,

35.

The

Canterbury

Tales,

a

collection

of

stories

told

bygroup

of

pilgrims

on

their

way

to

Canterbury,

is

animportant

poetic

work

byB.

Geoffrey

Chaucer.D.

Alfred

Tennyson.A.

William

Langland.C.

William

Shakespeare.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

in20th

-century

Britain

EXCEPTA.

George

Eliot. B.

Iris

Jean

Murdoch.C.

Doris

Lessing. D.

Muriel

Spark.

38.

Which

of

the

following

is

NOT

a

design

feature

ofhuman

language?A.

Arbitrariness. B.

Displacement.C.

Duality. D.

Diachronicity.

39.

What

type

of

sentence

is

“Mark

likes

fiction,

but

Timis

interested

in

poetry.”?

A.

A

simple

sentence. B.

A

coordinate

sentence.

C.

Acomplex

sentence.

D.

None

of

the

above.

40.

The

phenomenon

that

words

having

different

meaningshave

the

same

form

is

calledA.

hyponymy. B.

synonymy.C.

polysemy. D.

homonymy.2009專八人文知識測試及答案31.

The

Head

of

State

of

New

Zealand

isA.

the

governor-general.B.

the

Prime

Minister.C.

the

high

commissioner.D.

the

monarch

of

the

United

Kingdom.32.

The

capital

of

Scotland

isA.

Glasgow.

B.

Edinburgh.C.

Manchester.

D.

London.

33.

Who

wrote

the

Declaration

of

Independence

andlater

became

the

U.S.

President?B.

George

Washington.D.

John

Adams.A.

Thomas

Jefferson.C.

Thomas

Paine.

34.

Which

of

the

following

cities

is

located

on

theeastern

coast

of

Australia?A.

Perth.C.

Sydney.B.

Adelaide.D.

Melbourne.B.

William

Wordsworth.D.

Percy

B.

Shelley.35.

Ode

to

the

West

Wind

was

written

byA.

William

Blake.C.

Samuel

T.

Coleridge.36.

Who

among

the

following

is

a

poet

of

free

verse?A.

Ralph

Waldo

Emerson.C.

Herman

MelvilleB.

Walt

Whitman.D.

Theodore

Dreiser.37.

The

novel

Sons

and

Lovers

was

written

byA.

Thomas

Hardy. B.

John

Galsworthy.C.

D.H.

Lawrence. D.

James

Joyce.

38.

The

study

of

the

mental

processes

of

languagecomprehension

and

production

isA.

corpus

linguistics.B.

sociolinguistics.C.

theoretical

linguistics.D.

psycholinguistics.

39.

A

special

language

variety

that

mixes

languages

and

iused

by

speakers

of

different

languages

for

purposes

oftrading

is

calledA.

dialect.B.

idiolect.C.

pidgin.D.

register.

40.

When

a

speaker

expresses

his

intention

of

speaking,such

as

asking

someone

to

open

thewindow,

he

isperformingA.

an

illocutionary

act.B.

a

perlocutionary

act.C.

a

locutionary

act.D.

none

of

the

above.2010年英語專八人文知識真題答案31.

Which

of

the

following

is

INCORRECT

A.

The

British

Constitution

includes

the

Magna

Carta

of1215B.

The

British

Constitution

includes

Parliamentary

acts

C.

The

British

Constitution

includes

decisions

made

bycourts

of

law

D.

The

British

Constitution

includes

one

single

writtenConstitution32.

The

first

city

ever

founded

in

Canada

isA.

Quebec

B.

Vancouver

C.

Toronto

D.

Montreal

33.

When

did

the

Australian

Federation

officially

comeinto

being?A.

1770

B.

1788

C.

1900

D.

1901

34.

The

Emancipation

Proclamation

to

end

theplantation

slavery

in

the

south

of

US

was

issued

byA.

Abraham

LincolnC.

George

WashingtonB.

Thomas

PaineD.

Thomas

Jefferson

35．Who

was

best

known

for

the

technique

of

dramaticmonologue

in

his

poems?B.

W.B.YeatsD.

William

WordsworthA.

William

BlakeC.

Robert

Browning36.

The

Financier

was

written

by——————A.

Mark

Twain

B.

Henry

JamesC.William

Faulkner

D.Theodore

Dreiser

37.

In

literature

a

story

in

verse

or

prose

with

adouble

meaning

is

defined

as——————A.

allegoryC.

blank

verseB.

sonnetD.

rhyme

38.

refers

to

the

learning

and

development

of

alanguageB.

language

comprehensionD.

language

introductionA.

language

acquisitionC.

language

production

39.

The

word

“motel”

comes

from

“motor

–

hotel”.This

is

an

example

of

“…”

in

morphology.A.

backformationC.

blendingB.

conversionD.

acronym

40．Language

is

tool

of

communication,

the

symbol“highway

closed”

servesA.

an

expressive

functionB.

an

informative

functionC.

a

performative

functionD.

a

persuasive

function2011專八人文知識真題參考答案31.

The

northernmost

part

of

Great

Britain

is

.A.

Northern

IrelandC.

EnglandB.

WalesD.

Scotland

32.

It

is

generally

agreed

that

werethe

first

Europeans

to

reach

Australia"s

shoresA.

the

FrenchC.

the

BritishB.

the

GermansD.

the

Dutch

1606年，荷蘭Willem

Janszoon在約克角西岸登陸澳洲；1770年，英國人庫克登上澳洲大陸并宣布它為英國領(lǐng)土。

33.

Which

country

is

known

as

the

Land

of

MapleLeaf?A.

Canada. B.

New

Zealand.C.

Great

Britain.

D.

The

United

States

of

America.

34.

Who

wrote

the

famous

pamphlet,

The

CommonSense,

before

the

American

Revolution?A.

Thomas

Jefferson.

B.

Thomas

Paine.C.

John

Adams. D.

Benjamin

Franklin.35.

Virginia

Woolf

was

an

important

female

in

the

20th-century

England.A.

poet

B.

biographer

C.

playwright

D.

novelist

36.

refers

to

a

long

narrative

poemthat

records

the

adventures

of

a

hero

in

anation"s

history.A.

Ballad

B.

Romance

C.

Epic

D.

Elegy

37.

Which

of

the

following

best

exploresAmerican

myth

in

the

20th

century?A.

The

Great

Gatsby.B.

The

Sun

Also

Rises.C.

The

Sound

and

the

Fury.D.

Beyond

the

Horizon.

38.

is

defined

as

the

study

of

therelationship

between

language

and

mind.A.

Semantics B.

PragmaticsC.

Cognitive

linguistics D.

Sociolinguistics

39.

A

vowel

is

different

from

a

consonant

inEnglish

because

of

.B.

presence

ofD.

place

of

A.

absence

of

obstructionobstruction

C.

manner

of

articulationarticulation

40.

The

definition

"the

act

of

using

orpromoting

the

use

of

several

languages,either

by

an

individual

speaker

or

by

acommunity

of

speakers"

refers

to

.A.

Pidgin B.

Creole2012年專業(yè)八級31.

The

Maori

people

are

natives

ofA.

Australia.C.

Ireland.B.

Canada.D.

New

Zealand.32.

The

British

monarch

is

the

Head

ofA.

Pa