专业八级人文知识精选试题

专八人文 英国文学部分精选习题 The Renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events which one of the following is not such an event A The rediscovery of ancient Rome and Greek culture B England s domestic rest C New discovery in geography and astrology D The religious reformation and the economic expansion Which of the following is regarded as the most successful religious allegory in the English language A The Pilgrim s Progress B Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners C The Life and Death of Mr Badman D The Holy War It is alone who for the first time in English literature presented to us a comprehensive realistic picture of the English society of his time and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life A Geoffrey Chaucer B Martin Luther C William Langland D John Gower All of the following four except are the most eminent dramatists in the Renaissance England A Francis Bacon B Christopher Marlowe C William Shakespeare D Ben Jonson It is generally regarded that Keats s most important and mature poems are in the form of A elegy B ode C epic D sonnet Daniel Defoe s novels mainly focus on A the struggle of the unfortunate for mere existence B the struggle of the shipwrecked persons for security C the struggle of the pirates for wealth D the desire of the criminals for property In Beowulf fought against the monster Grendel and a five breathing dragon A the Anglo Saxons B Beowulf C the Scandinavian D the Winter Dragon Francis Bacon is best known for his which greatly influenced the development of this literary form A essays B poems C works D plays Most of Thomas Hardy s novels are set in Wessex A a crude region in England B a fictional primitive region C a remote rural area D Hardy s hometown We can perhaps describe the west wind in Shelley s poem Ode to the West Wind with all the following terms except A swift B proud C tamed D wild Blindness partiality prejudice and absurdity in the novel Pride and Prejudice are most likely the characteristics of A Elizabeth B Darcy C Mr Bennet D Mrs Bennet The modern English novel came into being in A the middle of the 17th century B the 17th century C the late 18th century D the middle of the 18th century Who is not the major figure of modernist movement A Eliot B Joyce C Charles Dickens D Pound Who is considered to be the best known English dramatist since Shakespeare A Oscar Wilde B John Galsworthy C W B Yeats D George Bernard Shaw Of the following poets which is not regarded as Lake Poets A Samuel Taylor Coleridge B Robert Southy C William Words worth D William Shakespeare In the first part of Gulliver s Travels Gulliver told his experience in A Lilliput B Brobdingnag C Houyhnhnm D England Which of the following cannot describe Byronic hero A proud B mysterious C noble origin D progressive In the history of literature Romanticism is generally regarded as A the thought that designates a literary and philosophical theory which tends to see the individual as the very center of all life and all experience B the thought that designates man as a social animal C the orientation that emphasizes those features which men have in common D the modes of thinking The term metaphysical poetry is commonly used to name the work of the 17th century writers who wrote under the influence of A John Milton B John Donne C John Keats D John Bunyan The Vanity Fair is a well known part in A The Pilgrim s Progress B Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners C The Life and Death of Mr Badman D The Holy War In Oliver Twist Charles criticizes A money worshipping tendency B dehumanizing of workhouse system C hypocrisy of the upper society D distortion of human heart Which of the following plays by Shakespeare is history play A Julius Caesar B The Merry Wives of Windsor C Henry IV D King Lear Who is regarded as a worshipper of nature A John Keats B William Blake C William Wordsworth D Jane Austen Which of the following writing is not the work by Charles Dickens A A Tale of Two Cities B Hard Times C Oliver Twist D Sons and Lovers The 18th century England is known as the in the history A Romanticism B Classicism C Renaissance D Enlightenment 专八人文 美国文学部分精选习题 In American literature the eighteen century was the age of the Enlightenment was the dominant spirit A Humanism B Rationalism C Revolution D Evolution Which statement about Franklin is not true A He instructed his countrymen as a printer B He was a scientist C He was a master of diplomacy D He was a Puritan Who is regarded as the first American prose epic A Nature B The Scarlet Letter C Walden D Moby Dick The Romanic Period of American literature started with the publication of Washington Irving s and ended with Whiteman s Leaves of Grass A The Sketch Book B Tales of a Traveler C The Alhambra D A history of New York In Hawthorne s The Scarlet Letter A may stand for A Adultery B Angel C Amiable D All the above The period before the American Civil War is generally referred to as A the Naturalist Period B the Modern Period C the Romantic Period D the Realistic Period The Age of Realism is the literary history of the United States refers to the period from to A 1861 1914 B 1863 1918 C 1865 1914 D 1865 1918 Who is described by Mark Twain as a boy with a sound heart and a deformed conscience A Tom Sawyer B Huckleberry Finn C Jim D Tony Mark Twain one of the greatest 19th century American writers is well known for his A international theme B waste land imagery C local color D symbolism The impact of Darwin s evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the nineteenth century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to yet another school of realism American A modernism B naturalism C vernacularism D local colorism In 1900 London published his first collection of short stories named A The son of the Wolf B The Sea Wolf C The Law of Life D White Fang In which of the following works Hemingway presents his philosophy about life and death through the depiction of the bull fight as a kind of microcosmic tragedy A The Green Hills of Africa B The Snows of Kilimanjaro C To Have and Have Not D Death in the Afternoon Which of the following figures does not belong to The Lost Generation A Ezra Pound B William Carlos Williams C Robert Frost D Theodore Dreiser Who is a dramatist that holds the central position in American drama the modernistic period A Sinclair Levis B Eugene O Neil C Arthur Miller D Tennessee Williams The following writers were awarded Nobel Prize for literature except A William Faulkner B F Scott Fitzgerald C John Steinbeck D Ernest Hemingway In 1954 was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature for his mastery of the art of modern narration A T S Eliot B Ernest Hemingway C John Steinbeck D William Faulkner Who is the author of the work The Grapes of Wrath A John Steinbeck B Eugene O Neil C F Scott Fitzgerald D Theodore Dreiser In 1920 Sinclair Lewis published his memorable denunciation of American small town provincialism in A Main Street B An American Tragedy C Winesburg Ohio D Sister Carrie 专八人文知识 语言学部分精选试题 Which of the following statements about language is NOT true A Language is a system B Language is symbolic C Animals also have language D Language is arbitrary Which of the following features is NOT one of the design features of language A Symbolic B Dual C Productive D Arbitrary What is the most important function of language A Interpersonal B Phatic C Informative D Metalingual Who put forward the distinction between Langue and Parole A Saussure B Chomsky C Halliday D Anonymous According to Chomsky which is the ideal user s internalized knowledge of his language A competence B parole C performance D langue The function of the sentence A nice day isn t it is A informative B phatic C directive D performative Articulatory phonetics mainly studies A the physical properties of the sounds produced in speech B the perception of sounds C the combination of sounds D the production of sounds The distinction between vowels and consonants lies in A the place of articulation B the obstruction of airstream C the position of the tongue D the shape of the lips Which is the branch of linguistics which studies the characteristics of speech sounds and provides methods for their description classification and transcription A Phonetics B Phonology C Semantics D Pragmatics Which studies the sound systems in a certain language A Phonetics B Phonology C Semantics D Pragmatics Minimal pairs are used to A find the distinctive features of a language B find the phonemes of a language C compare two words D find the allophones of language Usually suprasegmental features include length and pitch A phoneme B speech sounds C syllables D stress Which is an indispensable part of a syllable A Coda B Onset C Stem D Peak Which is the smallest unit of language in terms of relationship between expression and content A Word B Morpheme C Allomorph D Root Which studies the internal structure of words and the rules by which words are formed A Morphology B Syntax C Phonology D Semantics Lexeme is A a physically definable unit B the common factor underlying a set of forms C a grammatical unit D an indefinable unit Which of the following sounds does not belong to the allomorphs of the English plural morpheme A s B iz C ai D is All words contain a A root morpheme B bound morpheme C prefix D suffix The relationship between fruit and apple is A homonymy B hyponymy C polysemy D synonymy The part of the grammar that represents a speaker s knowledge of the structure of phrases and sentences is called A lexicon B morphology C syntax D semantics Which of the following items is not one of the grammatical categories of English pronouns A gender B number C case D voice The pair of words lend and borrow are A gradable opposites B converse opposites C co hyponyms D synonyms Big and Small are a pair of opposites A complementary B gradable C complete D converse According to C Morris and R Carnap which is studies the relationship between symbols and their interpreters A syntax B semantics C pragmatics D sociolinguistics There are deixis in the sentence she has sold it here yesterday A 3 B 4 C 5 D 6 In the following conversation Beirut is in Peru isn t it And Rome is in Romania I suppose The second person violates the A Quantity Maxim B Quality Maxim C Relation Maxim D Manner Maxim The maxim of requires that a participant s contribution be relevant to the conversation A quantity B quality C manner D relation 专八人文知识考前模拟试题 Which one of the four is NOT correct A English speaking countries are UK USA Canada Barbados etc B English speaking countries are UK Canada Australia New Zealand etc C English speaking countries are USA Canada Australia the Republic of Ireland etc D English speaking countries USA Canada Australia Egypt etc The famous short story The Fall of the House of Usher was written by A Charles Dickens B Edgar Allen Poe C John Richardson Canadian novelist D Henry Savery Which one of the following Ivy League Schools is situated in Connecticut A Yale University B Harvard C Princeton D Columbia The branch of linguistics which studies the forms of words is MORPHOLOGY A phoneme B morpheme C semantics D morphology Who wrote a highly acclaimed Novel Moby Dick A William James B Herman Melville C Ernest Hemingway D Cooper What is the name of the Lake in northern Utah of the U S A A Lake Michigan B Lake Superior C Lake Erie D the Great Salt Lake Who wrote Pygmalion which later was transformed into the highly popular New York Broadway musical My Fair Lady in 1956 A Edgar Allen Poe B Charles Lamb C George Bernard Shaw D Alfred Tennyson Among the four pillars of English literature who was NOT born and raised in Ireland A Jonathan Swift B W filiam Buffer Yeats C James Joyce D Robert Browning Alaska lies in the of North America stretching southward from the Arctic Ocean to the Pacific A northwestern part B southwestern part C northeastern part D southeastern part Who is a satirist and the first writer in America to win the Nobel Prize in literature A Eugene O Neill B Sinclair Lewis C TS Eliot D W dliam Fanlkner 专八人文知识考前模拟试题 2 The first capital of the young nation of the USA is A Boston B Philadelphia C New York D Washington Which one of the following American cities is the birthplace of jazz A New Orleans B New York C Boston D Chicago Who wrote one of the most enduring classic poem Ode to the West Wind A Wifiliam Wordsworth B Alfred Tennyson C Percy Shelley D David Bum When was Elizabeth I came to the throne of England A 1538 B 1548 C 1568 D 1558 When was Oxford University founded A 1167 in Oxford B 1267 in Oxford C 1367 in Oxford D 1467 in Oxford Canada is often described as a huge centered on the Hudson and James Bay A plate B saucer C cup D bowl In the literature of sociolinguistics refers to a group of institutionalized social situations typically con strained by a common set of behavioural rules A domain B distribution C dissimilation D discourse is a process in which part of the form is native and part is borrowed but the meaning is fully borrowed A loanshifting B loanblending C loan translation D logical connection What is the name of the woman poet who had her The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung up in America A Anne Bradstreet B Maria Edgeworth C Jane Austen D Emily Dickinson Who wrote and published the philosophical work Essay Concerning Human Understanding A John Milton B John Locke C Richard Steele D Joseph Addison 专八人文知识考前模拟试题 3 is the branch of linguistics which studies the characteristics of speech sounds and provides methods for their descr