专八人文知识真题05-11年(附答案).pdfVIP

1. ______ is the capital city of Canada. A. Vancouver B. Ottawa C. Montreal D. York 2. U.S. presidents normally serves a (an) _________term. A. two-year B. four-year C. six-year D. eight-year 3. Which of the following cities is NOT located in the Northeast, U.S.? A. Huston. B. Boston. C. Baltimore. D. Philadelphia. 4. ________ is the state church in England. A. The Roman Catholic Church. B. The Baptist Church C. The Protestant Church D. The Church of England 5. The novel Emma is written by A. Mary Shelley. B. Charlotte Bronte C. Elizabeth C. Gaskell. D. Jane Austen. 6. Which of following is NOT a romantic poet? A. William Wordsworth. B. George Elliot. C. George G. Byron. D. Percy B. Shelley. 7. William Sidney Porter, known as O. Henry, is most famous for A. his poems. 1 B. his plays. C. his short stories. D. his novels 8. Syntax is the study of A. language functions. B. sentence structures. C. textual organization. D. word formation. 9. Which of the following is NOT a distinctive feature of human language? A. Arbitrariness. B. Productivity. C. Cultural transmission. D. Finiteness. 10. The speech act theory was first put forward by A. John Searle. B. John Austin. C. Noam Chomsky. D. M.A.K. Halliday. 11. The Presidents during the American Civil War was A. Andrew Jackson B. Abraham Lincoln C. Thomas Jefferson D. George Washington 12. The capital of New Zealand is A.Christchurch B.Auckland C.Wellington D.Hamilton 13. Who were the natives of Austrilia before the arrival of the British settlers? A.The Aborigines B.The Maori C.The Indians D.The Eskimos 2 14. The Prime Minister in Britain is head of A.the Shadow Cabinet B.the Parliament C.the Opposition D.the Cabinet 15. Which of the following writers is a poet of the 20th century? A.T.S.Eliot B.D.H.Lawrence C.Theodore Dreiser D.James J