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英语专业 八级模拟人文知识测试(二)

分类: 英语  时间: 2019-01-24 17:06:00  作者: 全国等级考试资料网 

__1__ In Britain, ___ has the ultimate authority of legislation.
A the Queen
B the House of Commons
C the House of Lords
D the Prime Minister

__2__ The three largest cities in Canada do NOT include.
A Toronto
B Quebec
C Ottawa
D Vancouver

__3__ Aboriginal culture in Australia is said to be more than ___ years old.
A 20,000
B 30,000
C 40,000
D 50,000

__4__ It is known that Irish landscape in featured by ___.
A bogs
B mountains
C grassland
D rivers

__5__ The following plays are comedies by Shakespeare EXCEPT ___.
A A Midsummer Night’s Dream
B As You Like It
C The Merchant of Venice
D Romeo and Juliet

__6__ “The novel is structured around the discovery of the hero’s origin.” Probably this refers to the novel ___.
A Wuthering Heights
B The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
C David Copperfield
D Gulliver’s Travels

__7__ ___ was considered to be the greatest dramatist in the 18th century.
A Henry Fielding
B Laurence Sterne
C Oliver Goldsmith
D Richard B. Sheridan

__8__ The branch of linguistics that studies how context influences the way speakers interpret sentences is called ___.
A pragmatics
B semantics
C sociolinguistics
D psycholinguistics

__9__ Which of the following words can connect two clauses in a coordinate sentence?
A Through
B When
C But
D If

__10__ Which of the following is NOT considered part of semantic change?
A Semantic broadening
B Compounding
C Semantic narrowing
D Semantic shift


答案:
1. 选B。在英国,下院拥有最高立法权。本题术语发展现状类问题。
2. 选C。加拿大三大城市不包括渥太华。本题术语发展现状类问题。
3. 选C。据说澳大利亚的土著文化拥有四千多年的历史。本题属于文化传统类问题。
4. 选A。众所周知,爱尔兰地貌特点是沼泽地。本题属于地理类问题。
5. 选D。除了《罗密欧与朱丽叶》之外,其他下列戏剧皆为莎士比亚的喜剧作品。本题属于英国文学类问题。
6. 选B。“小说结构是围绕主人公的身世发现来安排的”这句话可能是指小说《弃儿汤姆.琼斯的来历》。本题属于英国文学类问题。
7. 选D。理查德.B.谢立丹被认为是18世纪最伟大的剧作家。本题属于英国文学类问题。
8. 选A。这道题检查考生是否知晓语用学的含义。
9. 选C。这套题检查考生对别列举的了解。
10.选B。这道题检查考生对语义变化内容的了解。

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