英语专业八级人文知识真题及答案

英语专业八级人文知识真题及答案

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 United Kingdom 32. The capital of Scotland is ______. A. Glasgow B. Edinburgh C. Manchester D. London

33. Who write 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 is the following cities is located on the eastern coast of Australia ?

A. Perth B. Adelaide C. Sydney D. Melbourne

35. Ode to the West Wind was written by ______. A. Willian Blake B. Willian Wordsworth C. Samuel Taylor Coleridege D. Percy Bysshe 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 and Lovers was written by ______. A. Thomas Hardy B. John Galworhty C. D.H. Lawrence D. James Joyce

38. The sstudy of mental processes of language comprehension and production is ______.

A. corpus linguistics B. socialinguistics 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 speake expresses his intension 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 Key: 31-35 DBACD 36-40 BCDCA