专八人文知识练习题答案.doc

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 ABCB CNN 　C CBSD BBC 3. The Capital of Australia is __. 　　A Sydney 　B MelbourneC 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 playwrightB poet C novelist D essayist 6. John Galsworthy was most famous for__. 　　A Heart of DarknessB Ulysses C The Forsyste Saga D A Passage to India John Galsworthy The Forsyte Saga福塞特家史， Joseph Conrad，Heart of Darkness Lord Jim 吉姆老爷;James Joyce, Ulysses; A Passage to India， 7. The novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was written by__. 　　A Henry JamesB 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 morphologyB 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 shiftB widening of meaning 　　C narrowing of meaningD 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）