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专八辅导
专八辅导:
人文知识冲刺
(1)
1. St. Lawrence and River Columbia are shared by both ____
AAmericaandMexico
BAmericaandCanada
CAmericaandCuba
DAmericaandBrazil
2. European settlement of Australia began in the late part of ____ when a British penal colony was established on the east coast of the continent.
Athe16thcentury
Bthe17thcentury
Cthe18thcentury
Dthe19thcentury
3. Which sport is supposed to be America’s national sport and used to be call “American’s favorable pastime”?
Abaseball
Bbasketball
Crugby
Dcricket
4. The largest city in New Zealand is ____
AAuckland
BWellington
CChristchurch
DDunedin
5. After Adam Bede,____wrote The Mill on the Floss and Silas Marner in which moral problems are discussed and psychological analysis of characters are emphasized.
AGeorgeEliot
BJaneAustin
CGeorgeDickens
DCharlotteBronte
6.All of the following odes are written by John Keats EXCEPT____
AOdetoAutumn
BOdetoaNightingale
COdetoaSkylark
DOdeonMelancholy
7. Of____’s four famous comedies, the best known is Lady Windermere’s Fan.
AOscarWilde
BRichardSheridan
CBernardShaw
DSomersetMaugham
8. If the air stream meets with no obstruction when a sound is pronounced, it is a(n) ____
Avoicedconsonant
Bvoicelessconsonant
Cvowel
Dexplosive
9. The internationally accepted system of phonetic transcription is ____
AI.P.A
BI.A.P.S
CI.S.S
DS.S.I.P
10. With the ____, Latin words were added into the vocabulary of the language spoken in Britain.
AinvasionoftheRomans
BChristianizationofBritain
CScandinavianinvasion
DNormanConquest
专八辅导:
人文知识冲刺(3)
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 ____
Athereunionofalargefamily
BtheeatingofEastereggs
CtheresurrectionofChrist
Dtheforgivingofother’ssins
2. The largest of the ethnic minorities in America is ____
Atheblacks
BtheMexico-Americans
CtheSpanish-Americans
DtheChinese
3. The British establish ____colonies along the east coast of North American between 16.7 and 1733.
A11
B12
C13
D14
4. The largest university in Canada is ____
ALavalUniversity
BTheUniversityofToronto
CMcGillUniversity
DSimonFraserUniversity
5. Robinson Crusoe is written by ____
AHenryFielding
BDanielDefoe
CSamuelRichardson
DJonathanSwift
6. ____is written by Walt Whitman.
ARepresentativeMen
BEnglishTraits
CNature
DLeavesofGrass
7. ____is not a novelist.
AHenryJames
BEmilyDickinson
CWilliamDeanHowells
DMarkTwain
8. ____is not one of the core branches of linguistics.
APhonology
BPsycho-linguistics
CSyntax
DSemantics
9. ____ is the common factor of the three sounds:
[p], [t], [k]
Avoiceless
Bspread
Cvoiced
Dnasal
10. English consonants can be classified into stops, fricatives, nasals, etc, in terms of ____
Amannerofarticulation
Bopennessofmouth
Cplaceofarticulation
Dvoicing
专八辅导:
人文知识冲刺(4)
1.The national epic of the Anglo-Saxons is ____.
ARobinHood
BSirGawainandtheGreenKnight
CTheCanterburyTales
DBeowulf
2. ____was the most outstanding single romance on the Arthurian legend written in alliterative verse.
ATheCanterburyTales
BPiersthePlowman
CSirGawainandtheGreenKnight
DBeowulf
3. ____was the most famous for The Canterbury Tales.
AGeoffreyChaucer
BJohnMilton
CWilliamShakespeare
DFrancisBacon
4. Most of the ballads of the 5th century focused on the legend about ____ as a heroic figure.
AGreenNights
BGawain
CRobinHood
DHamlet
5.In the 16th century, Thomas More’s work ____became immediately popular after its publication.
AParadiseLost
BAPleasantSatireoftheThreeEstates
COfBeauty
DUtopia
6. ____was Edmund Spencer’s masterpiece which has been regarded as one of the great poems in the English language.
AAmoretti
BTheShepherd’sCalendar
CTheFaerieQueen
DFourHymns
7. ____ is from Shakespeare’s sonnet No.18.
A“Letmenottothemarriageoftrueminds”
B“Tobeornottobe:
thatisthequestion”
C“ShallIcomparetheetoasummer’sday”
D“NolongermournformewhenIamdead”
8. The vivid portrayal of ____ by Shakespeare in Henry IV has earn for him an enviable place in the history of English literature.
AJuliusCaesar
BFalstaff
CHamlet
DKingHenry
9.The four great tragedies written by Shakespeare are Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello and ____.
A.AntonyandCleopatra
B.JuliusCaesar
CTwelfthNight
DKingLear
10. Which of the following does not belong to Shakespeare’s romantic love comedies?
ATwelfthNight
BTheTempest
CAsYouLikeIt
DTheMerchantofVenice
专八辅导:
人文知识冲刺(5)
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
专八辅导:
人文知识冲刺(6)
1 As a philosophical and literary moment, _____ flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War.
Amodernism
Brationalism
Csentimentalism
Dtranscendentalism
2 Poe’s first collection of stories is _____.
ATalesofTraveler
BLeatherStockingTales
CCanterburyTales
DTalesoftheGotequeandArabesque
3 Which book is not written by Emerson?
ATheAmericanScholar
BSelf-Reliance
CNature
DCivilDisobedience
4 The finest example of Hawthorn’s symbolism is the recreation of Puritan Boston in _____.
ATheScarletLetter
BYoungGoodmanBrown
CTheMarbleFawn
DTheAmbitiousGuest
5 The chief spokesman of New England Transcendentalism is _____.
ANathanielHawthorn
BRalphWaldoEmerson
CHenryDavidThoreau
DWashingtonIrving
6 Transcendentalists recognized _____ as the “highest power of the soul”.
Aintuition
Blogic
Cdataofsenses
Dthinking
7 Which is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”?
ATheAmericanScholar
BEnglishTraits
CTheConductofLife
DRepresentativeMen
8 American literature produced only one female poet during the nineteenth century. This was _____.
AAnneBradstreet
BJaneAustin
CEmilyDickinson
DHarrietBeecher
9 Captain, My Captain is written for _____.
ALincoln
BWhitman
CWashington
DHemingway
10 _____ is not written by Washington Irving.
ATheSketchBook
BRipVanWinkle
CTheLegendofSleepHollow
DTheAutobiography
专八辅导:
人文知识冲刺(7)
1 How many members are there in the House of Commons?
A650
B524
C72
D651
2 Which of the following people didn’t use to be the British Prime Minister?
AMargaretThatcher
BWinstonChurchill
CHoratioNelson
DJohnMajor
3 By tradition, the leader of the majority party is appointed _____ by the Sovereign in the United Kingdom.
APrimeMinister
BMemberofParliament
CLordofappeal
DSpeakeroftheHouse
4 The Tories were the forerunners of _____, which still bears this nickname today.
AtheLabourParty
BtheConservativeParty
CtheLiberalParty
DtheSocialDemocraticParty
5 In the United Kingdom, the party which wins the ____ number of seats in the House of Commons becomes the official Opposition.
Alargest
Bsecondlargest
Cthirdlargest
Dfourthlargest
6 The term “British disease” is now often used to characterize Britain’s _____ decline.
Apolitical
Beducational
Cmilitary
Deconomic
7 The 1980s was remembered as the decade of _____.
Aglobalization
Bnationalization
Cprivatization
Dcompetition
8 Today, in Britain, ______ is called a “sick” industry.
Acoalmining
Bironandsteel
Ctextiles
Dshipbuilding
9 The first steam engine was devised by Thomas Newcomer at the end of the 17th century, and the Scottish inventor ____ modified and improved the design in 1765.
A AbrahamDarby
BJamesWatt
CJohnKay
DRichardArkwrightthe
10 _____ created the industrial working class, the proletariat, and it later led to trade unionism.
ATheChartistMovement
BTheIndustrialRevolution
CTheFrenchRevolution
DTheGloriousRevolution
专八辅导:
人文知识冲刺(8)
1 Which poem is not written by Freneau?
ATheBritishPrisonShip
BTheWildHoneySuckle
CTheIndianBuryingGround
DTheFloodofYears
2 Thomas Jefferson’s attitude ,that is , a firm belief in progr
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