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英语专八人文知识
今日话题:
辅音如何分类
1.发音部位(placesofarticulation):
双唇音(bilabial)、唇齿音(labiodental)、齿间音(dental)等;
2.发音方法(mannersofarticulation):
、爆破音(stop)、摩擦音(fricatives)、破擦音(affricates)、鼻音(nasal)、边音(lateral)等;
3.声带状态:
清辅音、浊辅音。
因此更正第七期第十道
10.Englishconsonantscanbeclassifiedintostops,fricatives,nasals,etc,intermsof____
AmannerofarticulationBopennessofmouth
CplaceofarticulationDvoicing
选择A而不是C
1.St.LawrenceandRiverColumbiaaresharedbyboth____
AAmericaandMexicoBAmericaandCanada
CAmericaandCubaDAmericaandBrazil
2.EuropeansettlementofAustraliabeganinthelatepartof____whenaBritishpenalcolonywasestablishedontheeastcoastofthecontinent.
Athe16thcenturyBthe17thcenturyCthe18thcenturyDthe19thcentury
3.WhichsportissupposedtobeAmerica’snationalsportandusedtobecall“American’sfavorablepastime”?
AbaseballBbasketballCrugbyDcricket
4.ThelargestcityinNewZealandis____
AAucklandBWellingtonCChristchurchDDunedin
5.AfterAdamBede,____wroteTheMillontheFlossandSilasMarnerinwhichmoralproblemsarediscussedandpsychologicalanalysisofcharactersareemphasized.
AGeorgeEliotBJaneAustinCGeorgeDickensDCharlotteBronte
6.AllofthefollowingodesarewrittenbyJohnKeatsEXCEPT____
AOdetoAutumnBOdetoaNightingale
COdetoaSkylarkDOdeonMelancholy
7.Of____’sfourfamouscomedies,thebestknownisLadyWindermere’sFan.
AOscarWildeBRichardSheridanCBernardShawDSomersetMaugham
8.Iftheairstreammeetswithnoobstructionwhenasoundispronounced,itisa(n)____
AvoicedconsonantBvoicelessconsonantCvowelDexplosive
9.Theinternationallyacceptedsystemofphonetictranscriptionis____
AI.P.ABI.A.P.SCI.S.SDS.S.I.P
10.Withthe____,LatinwordswereaddedintothevocabularyofthelanguagespokeninBritain.
AinvasionoftheRomansBChristianizationofBritain
CScandinavianinvasionDNormanConquest
答案
BCAAACACAB
9.国际音标(internationalphoneticalphabet)是目前世界上比较通行的音标,简称IPA,最初制定于1886年。
转贴于:
TEM考试_考试大【责编:
虫纠错】每天第一个迎接新一天的国家是哪个呢?
新西兰,由于新西兰整个国家非常狭窄,所以新西兰的任何地方距离海洋都不超过110公里,全国只有一个时区。
新西兰正好位于国际日期变更线以西的第一个时区,所以它是第一个迎接新一天的国家。
1. It was during ____ reign that the name Great Britain came into being.
A Mary’s B Anne’s C Jame II’s D Oliver Cromwell
2.Where is Edinburgh?
A In Wales B In Scotland C In Northern Ireland D In Ireland
3. One of the most famous national parks in the U.S. is the ____
A Yellowstone National Park B Hyde Park
C Kakadu National Park D American Fishing Center
4. New Zealand is just west of the International Date Line, so it is the first country to get ____
A frozen B wet C the new day D united
5. Mr.Darcy is a character in ____
A Tess of the D’Urbervilles B Pride and Prejudice C Happy Prince D The Mill on the Floss
6. Lyrical Ballads is the joint work between Wordsworth and his friend____
A Coleridge B Bryon C Keats D Shelly
7.____is the representative work of the Jazz Age
A The Great Gatsby B On the Road C Look Back in Anger D The Sun Also Rises
8. The distinction of langue and parole is made by ____
A Hall B Sapir C Chomsky D Saussure
9. ____examines how meaning is encoded in a language.
A Semantics B Syntax C Pragmatics D Morphology
10.The sentence “I apologize!
” belongs to the category of ____according to the speech act theory.
A. expressive B performative C representative D constative
答案
BBACB AADAB
constative为叙述句performative为施为句
美国人口构成
1. The population of the United States is a bit more than 272 million, about 13% of which are Black, 12 % are Hispanic(讲西班牙语的人),4% are Asian and the rest are White Americans.
2. It is the third most populous country in the world after China and India.
3. The most populous states are California, Texas, New York, Florida and Illinois.
4. More than 80% of Americans live in urban areas.
巩固:
按照人口数量排列,美国在世界排在第几位;按照面积排,美国又是排第几位呢?
1. Christmas is usually connected to ____
A the reunion of a large family B the eating of Easter eggs
C the resurrection of Christ D the forgiving of other’s sins
2. The largest of the ethnic minorities in America is ____
A the blacks B the Mexico-Americans
C the Spanish-Americans D the Chinese
3. The British establish ____colonies along the east coast of North American between 16.7 and 1733.
A. 11 B 12 C13 D14
4. The largest university in Canada is ____
A Laval University B The University of Toronto
C McGill University D Simon Fraser University
5. Robinson Crusoe is written by ____
A Henry Fielding B Daniel Defoe C Samuel Richardson D Jonathan Swift
6. ____is written by Walt Whitman.
A Representative Men B English Traits C Nature D Leaves of Grass
7. ____is not a novelist.
A Henry James B Emily Dickinson C William Dean Howells D Mark Twain
8. ____is not one of the core branches of linguistics.
A Phonology B Psycho-linguistics C Syntax D Semantics
9. ____ is the common factor of the three sounds:
[p], [t], [k]
A voiceless B spread C voiced D nasal
10. English consonants can be classified into stops, fricatives, nasals, etc, in terms of ____
A manner of articulation B openness of mouth
C place of articulation D voicing
按面积计算,美国继俄罗斯,加拿大,中国之后位居第四。
按人口计算,美国继中国,印度后,居第三。
答案 ACCBB DBBAA转贴于:
练习题:
1.The national epic of the Anglo-Saxons is ____.
A Robin Hood B Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
C The Canterbury Tales D Beowulf
2. ____was the most outstanding single romance on the Arthurian legend written in alliterative verse.
A The Canterbury Tales B Piers the Plowman
C Sir Gawain and the Green Knight D Beowulf
3. ____was the most famous for The Canterbury Tales.
A Geoffrey Chaucer B John Milton
C William Shakespeare D Francis Bacon
4. Most of the ballads of the 5th century focused on the legend about ____ as a heroic figure.
A Green Nights B Gawain
C Robin Hood D Hamlet
5.In the 16th century, Thomas More’s work ____became immediately popular after its publication.
A Paradise Lost B A Pleasant Satire of the Three Estates
C Of Beauty D Utopia
6. ____was Edmund Spencer’s masterpiece which has been regarded as one of the great poems in the English language.
A Amoretti B The Shepherd’s Calendar
C The Faerie Queen D Four Hymns
7. ____ is from Shakespeare’s sonnet No.18.
A “Let me not to the marriage of true minds”
B “To be or not to be:
that is the question”
C “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day”
D “No longer mourn for me when I am dead”
8. The vivid portrayal of ____ by Shakespeare in Henry IV has earn for him an enviable place in the history of English literature.
A Julius Caesar B Falstaff C Hamlet D King Henry
9.The four great tragedies written by Shakespeare are Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello and ____.
A. Antony and Cleopatra B. Julius Caesar
C Twelfth Night D King Lear
10. Which of the following does not belong to Shakespeare’s romantic love comedies?
A Twelfth Night B The Tempest
C As You Like It D The Merchant of Venice
练习题答案及题解:
1.D 《贝奥武夫》是英国一部著名的英国史诗,也是英国文学中的一部重要作品,用古英语写成。
2.C 《高文爵士和绿衣》以亚瑟王和他的骑士为题材,歌颂勇敢、忠贞、美德,是中古英语传奇文学最优秀的作品之一。
3. Chaucer被誉为“英国诗歌之父”,他的代表作是《坎特伯雷故事集》,它是以本土文学为主流的英国书面文学历史开始的重要标志。
4.C 英国15十几民谣大部分是关于流传于英国民间家喻户晓的传奇人物罗宾汉和他的伙伴们的故事。
民谣中的罗宾汉是一个仗义疏财,劫富济贫的绿林好汉。
5.D 托马斯.莫尔是英国重要的早期人文主义者。
他的著作《乌托邦》勾画出了一个社会平等,财产共有,人民和谐相处的理想大同国。
6. C 长诗《仙后》是英国杰出诗人Edmund Spencer的杰作,它是英国诗歌创作的典范。
Spencer在《仙后》一诗中创造了著名的“斯宾塞诗体”,其影响深远。
7.C “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day”源自莎士比亚著名的第十八首诗。
8.B 喜剧人物福斯坦福是莎士比亚在《亨利四世》中创造的一个为百姓喜闻乐见的不朽的艺术形象。
福斯坦福是个50多岁的破落骑士,爱冒险又胆怯,喜欢吹牛又贪婪,说谎欺诈,浑水摸鱼,无所不能。
同时他生性幽默,喜剧情节和笑料通过他的所言所行妙趣横生。
9.D 莎士比亚的四大悲剧一般指:
Hamlet,Macbeth,Othello 以及King Lear。
10.B The Tempest 是莎士比亚后期一部浪漫主义传奇剧,莎士比亚在创作中坚持人文主义理想,以宽恕仁爱为主要精神,期创作风格添加了不少浓郁的浪漫空幻色彩。
转练习题:
1."Gold Rush" was vividly depicted in ____ novels.
A Hemingway’s B Mark Twain’s C Henry Jame’s D Faulkner’s
2.The period of Old English literatue refers to ____
A 449-1066
B 14thcentury - mid 17th century
C 14th century- mid 18th century
D 16th century- mid 18th century
3.The great transcendental work by Henry David Thoreau is ____
A Nature B Walden C Experience D Essays
4.____has been entitled the "Father of American Poetry".
A Philip Freneau B Ralph Waldo Emerson C William Cullen Bryant D Walt Whitman
5. The emotional effect and social significance made ____ the first well-known sociological novel in American Literature.
A The Sun Also Rises B Uncle Tom’s Cabin
C The Old Man and The Sea D Sister Carrie
6. Stephen Crane is famous for ____
A An American Tragedy B The Ambassadors
C Main Street D The Red Badge of Courage
7.Which of the following is NOT true for Benjamin Franklin?
A He was a famous writer B He was a member to draft the Declaration of Independence
C He was a great scientist D He was once elected American President
8. Whitman’s poems are characterized by all the following features EXCEPT____
A a strict poetic form B a simple and conversational language C a free and natural rhythmic pattern D an easy flow of feelings
9.American fiction in the 1960s is retered to as ____
A imagism B black humor C new fiction D the Beat Generation
10.William Faukener is the author of ____
A Far From the Madding Crowd B Sound and Fury C For Whom the Bell Tolls D Scarlet Letter
练习题答案及题解:
1.B 马克吐温的很多短篇小说对Gold Rush(淘金)进行了很形象的描绘。
2.A Anglo-Saxons所说的语言被称为古英语,Anglo-Saxons是在五世纪中侵入英国领土的,直到1066年诺曼公爵政府英格兰,建立诺曼底王朝,才代替了Anglo-Saxons。
3.B 瓦尔登湖是梭罗最杰出的超验主义作品。
4.A Philip Freneau(1752--1832)被称为“美国诗歌之父”。
著有:
The wild Honey Suckle;To The Memory of Brave Americans。
5.B 汤姆叔叔家的小屋是美国文学史上第一部揭示黑人被虐待,宣扬反奴隶制度的小说,激发了社会各界人士的感情,是一部社会性质很强的小说。
6.D The Red Badge of Courage《红色英勇勋章》是Stephen Grane的代表作。
7.D Benjamin Franklin 是伟大的作家,科学家,还是美国独立宣言的撰写人之一,但是未曾担任过美国总统。
8.A Whitman主张自由诗体,认为诗歌不应该收到格律约束。
他的代表作《草叶集》标志着真正意义上美国诗歌的诞生。
9.B 黑色幽默是二十世纪六十年代盛行的小说类型,用幽默的手法来揭示可悲的现实
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