专八人文知识真题2005-2013.docVIP

英语专业八级考试历年全真试题（人文知识部分） （200） PART Ⅲ GENERAL KNOWLEDGE（10 MIN） There are ten multiple-choice questions in this section. Choose the best answer to each question. Mark your answers on your coloured answer sheet31. ______ is the capital city of Canada.A. Vancouver B. Ottawa √ C. Montreal D. York32. U.S. presidents normally serves a (an) _________term.A. two-year B. four-year √ C. six-year D. eight-year33. Which of the following cities is NOT located in the Northeast, U.S.?A. Huston. √ B. Boston. C. Baltimore. D. Philadelphia. 34. ________ is the state church in England.A. The Roman Catholic Church. B. The Baptist Church C. The Protestant Church D. The Church of England √35. The novel Emma is written by A. Mary Shelley. B. Charlotte Bronte. C. Elizabeth C. Gaskell. D. Jane Austen. √36. Which of following is NOT a romantic poet?A. William Wordsworth. B. George Elliot. √ C. George G. Byron. D. Percy B. Shelley.37. William Sidney Porter, known as O. Henry, is most famous forA. his poems. B. his plays. C. his short stories. √ D. his novels38. Syntax is the study of A. language functions. B. sentence structures. √ C. textual organization. D. word formation.39. Which of the following is NOT a distinctive feature of human language?A. Arbitrariness. 任意性B. Productivity. 丰富性C. Cultural transmission. 文化传播性D. Finiteness. 局限性 ？注：design feature: features that define our human languages, such as arbitrariness, duality, creativity, displacement,cultural transmission, etc. 40. The speech act theory was first put forward by A. John Searle . .B. John Austin. √ C. Noam Chomsky. D. M.A.K. Halliday. （200） PART Ⅲ GENERAL KNOWLEDGE（10 MIN） 31.The Presidents during the American Civil War wasA. Andrew Jackson B. Abraham Lincoln C. Thomas Jefferson D. George Washington 32.The capital of New Zealand is . A.Christchurch B.Auckland C.Wellington D.Hamilton 33.Who were the natives of Austrilia before t