专八需要掌握的人文知识
专业八级的英语学习的时候要掌握很多的知识,除了一些必要的英语知识之外,还有掌握一些必要的人文知识。专业八级相对于其他级别来说是有一定的难度的,所以,这就需要我们在平时要好好的准备,不能掉以轻心,防止自己考试失利。下面就是一些人文知识,我们一定要记下来。
1. Where is Edinburgh?
A In Wales C In Northern Ireland D In Ireland
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. Which of the following is Not a U.S. news and cable network?
A ABC B CNN C CBS 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. The Capital of Australia is __.
A Sydney B Melbourne D Perth
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. Which degree is offered in community colleges in the United States?
A Master's degree B Doctor's degree C Bachelor's degree 5. George Bernard Shaw was a(n) __.
A playwright B poet C novelist D essayist
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 ,Arms and the Man, Pygmalion ,获得1925年诺贝尔文学奖。
6. John Galsworthy was most famous for__.
A Heart of Darkness B Ulysses C The Forsyste Saga D A Passage to India
选C.John Galsworthy(英国),小说家,剧作家。主要作品有The Forsyte Saga,于1932年获得了诺贝尔文学奖;Heart of Darkness,作者Joseph Conrad,波兰籍英国小说家,另有Lord Jim ;Ulysses, 作者James Joyce, 爱尔兰作家Finnergans Wake《为芬尼根守灵》; A Passage to India,作者E.M. Forster,英国小说家,另有Howards End霍华德别业。
7. The novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was written by__.
A Henry James B O. Henry C Harriet Beccher Stower 选D.Mark Twain= Samuel Langhorne Clemens,作品有The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; Henry James, 主要作品有Ambassadors, The Golden Bowl; O.Henry= William Sydney Porter, 主要作品有Cabbages and Kings, Four Million; Harriet Beecher Stower, 其反奴隶制小说Uncle Tom's Cabin,促进了废奴运动发展。 study of how sounds are put together and used to convey meaning in condition is__.
A morphology形态学 B general linguistics普通语言学 语音学 D semantics语义学
9. Which of the following is NOT a compound word?
A Landlady B Greenhouse C Uplift 选D.是derivation派生词.
10. The word holiday originally meant holy day; but now the word signifies any which we don't have to work. This is an example of __.
A meaning shift B widening of meaning C narrowing of meaning
D loss of meaning
1. study of __ is Syntax.
A textual organization C word formation
D language functions
选B. Syntax (句法),研究词或其他句子成分如何联合起来形成合乎语法的句子规则的学科。
2. Which of the following is NOT a distinctive feature of human language?
A arbitrariness B productivity C cultural transmission 选D.语言的区别性特征包含有五个特征:arbitrariness(任意性),productivity(能产性), duality(双层性),displacement(不受时空限制),cultural transmission(文化传递性)。 Arbitrariness,指一句话所表达的意思与表达这个意思的语言文字之间的关系不确定。Productivity,事实上,能产性有时也称之为创造性,指的是人们可以构造或理解无穷多的新语句。duality, 语言结构的二重性指的一个是语音结构,另一个是语义结构。 cultural transmission指的是语言不像遗传基因那样才能代代相传,语言必须作为一个体系,必须一点一点的习得。人所要学的某一特定的语言是文化的即社会的语言,人出生后孤立于文化或社会环境之外是无法习得语言的。
3. The speech act theory was first put forward by__.
A John Scarl Noarn Chomsky D M.A.K Halliday
选B.言语行为理论是由英国哲学家奥斯汀提出的假说。60年代,英国哲学家Johan Austin奥斯汀和Johan Searle赛尔勒先后发表了“语言行为”的理论。根据奥斯汀的言语行为理论,当人们说出每句话时,不管其是否含有行为动词,都包含有“说”的成分和“做”的成分,即言内行为locutionary act,言外行为illocutionary act和言后行为perlocutionary act.
4. The capital city of Canada is __.
A Montreal B Ottawa C Vancouver D York
选B.Canada的首度是Ottawa(渥太华)。Toronto(多伦多)是加拿大最大的城市;Montreal (蒙利特尔)加拿大第二城市;Vancouver(温哥华)为第三大城市。