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英语专业八级人文知识冲刺卷二

分类: 英语  时间: 2019-01-24 17:03:25  作者: 全国等级考试资料网 

New York City

With a metropolitan population of around 16 million, New York, called the “Big Apple”, is the largest city in the United States, and the financial, manufacturing and transportation center.

With the headquarter of the United Nations located there, it is also the center of international political exchange, as well as the financial capital of the world.

巩固: 我们知道NEW YORK CITY 有很多有名的地方,包括 Wall Street, BroadWay,还有什么呐?


1.The Tories were the forerunners of ____ , which still bears this nickname today.

A the Liberal Party B the Labour Party Day
C the Conservative Party D the Social Democratic Party

2.Among the most typical English sports, ____ has been in existence since the 16th century.

A rugby B soccer C cricket D boxing

3.The United States is ____

A the most populous country in the world
B the second most populous country in the world
C the third most populous county in the world
D the fourth most populous country in the world

4.The last one of the 13 colonies was ____, which was established in 1733.

A North Carolina B South Carolina C Georgia D Maryland

5. O’ Henry earned his fame mainly for his ____

A novels B poems C short stories D dramas

6.The island of Lilliput can be found in ___

A Robinson Grusoe B Gulliver’s Travels C Adventures of Tome Sawyer D Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

7____is the first American professional writer and the first writer of detective story in the world.

A Ezra Pound B Washington Irving C Nathaniel Hawthorne D Edgar Ellen Poe

8. ____is the basic unit of research in Mophology.

A. morpheme B phoneme C lexeme D phone

9. Which of the following statements about language is NOT true?

A language is a system B Language is symbolic
C Animals also have languages D Language is arbitrary

10. The pair of words “high” and “low” are ____

A gradable opposites B converse opposites C co-hyponyms D synonyms


答案:
New York City is well known for Wall Street, Fifth Avenue, Broadway, the Empire State Building, Rockefeller Center, the United Nation’s Building, Central Park, Harlem(黑人住宅区) and so on.
CBCCC          BDACA

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