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专业英语八级人文知识 1. All of the Great Lakes are shared between the United States and Canada EXCEPT (C) A. Lake Ontario B. Lake Superior C. Lake Michigan D. Lake Erie 2. Which group of people can Not vote in the British general election? (B) A. member in the House of Commons B. Lords in the House of Lords C. the UK citizens above the age of 18 D. the UK resident citizens of the Irish Republic 3. Walt Whitman helped to promote the development of (D) A. sonnet B. couplet C. blank verse D. free verse 4. Speech is the primary medium of language. 5. The first English colony in America established in Jamestown. 6. In the 1960s, the Beatles became world famous and turned their hometown of Liverpool into a place of pilgrimage. 7. The Angles and Saxons are the ancestors of the English people today. 8. Prometheus Unbound was written by Shelly. 9. Walt Whitman’s O Captain! My Captain! was written in memorial of Lincoln. 10. Saussure puts forward the distinction between diachronic studies and synchronic studies. 11. The majority of back-formed words are verbs. 12. Illocutionary act is the act performed in saying something; it is an expression of the speaker’s intention. 13. Washington D.C, capital of the United States, is named after George Washington and Christopher Columbus. 14. English didn’t became the official; language of the English until 14th after the Hundred Years’ War. 15. Martin Eden is Jack London’s masterpiece and it is somewhat autobiographical. 16. The Input Hypothesis was put forward by Krashen. 17. A series of dynastic civil wars between supporters of the House of Lancaster and the House of York in the 15th century are also known as the wars of the Roses. 18. The oldest newspaper in Australia is The Sydney Morning Herald. 19. The Gift of the Magi was written by O’ Henry. 20. Nouns’ verbs and adjectives can be classified as open class words. 21. Which of the following sports originated from Scotland? (A) A Golf B Football C Basketball D Tennis 22. T