英語專八人文知識沖刺

英語專八人文知識沖刺

　英語專八人文知識需要考生基本了解主要英語國家的地理、歷史、現狀、文化傳統以及英語文學知識和英語語言知識。我整理了2015英語專八人文知識供考生們參考。

　1. St. Lawrence and River Columbia are shared by both ____

　A America and Mexico

　B America and Canada

　C America and Cuba

　D America and Brazil

　2. European settlement of Australia began in the late part of ____ when a British penal colony was established on the east coast of the continent.

　A the 16th century

　B the 17th century

　C the 18th century

　D the 19th century

　3. Which sport is supposed to be America?s national sport and used to be call ?American?s favorable pastime?

　A baseball

　B basketball

　C rugby

　D cricket

　4. The largest city in New Zealand is ____

　A Auckland

　B Wellington

　C Christchurch

　D Dunedin

　5. After Adam Bede,____wrote The Mill on the Floss and Silas Marner in which moral problems are discussed and psychological analysis of characters are emphasized.

　A George Eliot

　B Jane Austin

　C George Dickens

　D Charlotte Bronte

　6.All of the following odes are written by John Keats EXCEPT____

　A Ode to Autumn

　B Ode to a Nightingale

　C Ode to a Skylark

　D Ode on Melancholy

　7. Of____?s four famous comedies, the best known is Lady Windermere?s Fan.

　A Oscar Wilde

　B Richard Sheridan

　C Bernard Shaw

　D Somerset Maugham

　8. If the air stream meets with no obstruction when a sound is pronounced, it is a(n) ____

　A voiced consonant

　B voiceless consonant

　C vowel

　D explosive

　9. The internationally accepted system of phonetic transcription is ____

　A I.P.A

　B I.A.P.S

　C I.S.S

　D S.S.I.P

　10. With the ____, Latin words were added into the vocabulary of the language spoken in Britain.

　A invasion of the Romans

　B Christianization of Britain

　C Scandinavian invasion

　D Norman Conquest

　答案

　BCAAA CACAB

　9. 國際音標(international phonetic alphabet)是目前世界上比較通行的音標，簡稱IPA，最初制定於1886年。

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