专八人文知识练习题答案..docVIP

1. Where is Edinburgh? 　　A In Wales 　　B In Scotland 　　C In Northern Ireland 　　D In Ireland 　　2. Which of the following is Not a U.S. news and cable network? 　　A ABC 　　B CNN 　　C CBS 　　D BBC 　　3. The Capital of Australia is __. 　　A Sydney 　　B Melbourne 　　C Canberra 　　D Perth 　　4. Which degree is offered in community colleges in the United States? 　　A Masters degree 　　B Doctors degree 　　C Bachelors degree 　　D Associates degree 　　5. George Bernard Shaw was a（n） __. 　　A playwright 　　B poet 　　C novelist 　　D essayist 　　6. John Galsworthy was most famous for__. 　　A Heart of Darkness 　　B Ulysses 　　C The Forsyste Saga 　　D A Passage to India 　　7. The novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was written by__. 　　A Henry James 　　B O. Henry 　　C Harriet Beccher Stower 　　D Mark Twain 　　8. The study of how sounds are put together and used to convey meaning in condition is__. 　　A morphology 　　B general linguistics 　　C phonology 　　D semantics 　　9. Which of the following is NOT a compound word? 　　A Landlady 　　B Greenhouse 　　C Uplift 　　D Unacceptable 　　10. The word holiday originally meant holy day; but now the word signifies any which we dont have to work. This is an example of __. 　　A meaning shift 　　B widening of meaning 　　C narrowing of meaning 　　D loss of meaning 答案：1-5 BDCDA　　6-10 CDCDB 　　1. 选B. Wales的首府威Cardiff, Scotland的首府为Edinburgh. Northern Ireland的首府Belfast, Ireland的首府为Dublin. 　　2. 选 D. BBC=British Broadcasting Corporation英国广播公司, ABC=American Broadcasting Company, Inc美国广播公司; CNN= Cable News Network美国有线广播公司, CBS= Columbia Broadcasting System哥伦比亚广播公司 　　3. 选C.Sydney第一城市, 位于New South Wales州;Melbourne第二大城市位于Victoria州，Canberra位于Sydney与Melbourne之间;Perth位于Australia州 　　4. 选D. Associates degree是准学士学位 （喵猜这个相当我们说的大专吧） 　　5. 选A.George Bernard Shaw （英国，萧伯纳），爱尔兰籍，剧作家，批评家，社会评论家，主要作品有Man and Superman, Back to Methuselah, Saint Joan 圣女贞德，Arms and the Man, Pygmalion 茶花女，获得1925年诺贝尔文学奖。（喵，小云的上期文学七里香就是介绍了他噢） 　　6. 选C.John Galsworthy（英国）,小说家，剧作家。主要作品有The Forsyte Saga福塞特家史，于1932年获得了诺贝尔文学奖;Heart o