[外语类试卷]专业英语八级(GENERAL KNOWLEDGE)模拟试卷2及答案与解析.doc
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1、专业英语八级( GENERAL KNOWLEDGE)模拟试卷 2及答案与解析 一、 PART III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (10 MIN) Directions: There are ten multiple-choice questions in this section. Choose the best answer to each question. 1 The Romans leaded by_came with 10,000 soldiers and landed on the shore of Kent in 55 BC. ( A) Claudius ( B) Ha
2、drian ( C) Caesar ( D) Plaulius 2 The largest lake in Britain is ( A) Lough Neagh. ( B) Windermere Water. ( C) Coniston Water. ( D) Lake District. 3 The largest and smallest states of the United States are ( A) Alaska and Rhode Island. ( B) Texas and Maine. ( C) Texas and Rhode Island. ( D) Alaska a
3、nd Maine. 4 What is the Republic of Ireland called in Irish? ( A) Irea. ( B) Aire. ( C) Eare. ( D) Eire. 5 Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his production of ( A) Piers Plowman. ( B) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. ( C) Poems on London. ( D) The Canterbury Tales.
4、6 “If winter comes,can spring be far behind?“ is an epigrammatic line by ( A) John Keats. ( B) William Blake. ( C) Percy Shelley. ( D) William Wordsworth. 7 Walt Whitman was a pioneering figure of American poetry. His innovation, first of all, lies in his use of_poetry without a fixed regular rhyme
5、scheme. ( A) blank verse ( B) heroic couplet ( C) free verse ( D) iambic pentameter 8 The pair of words “buy“ and “sell“ are ( A) gradable opposites. ( B) relational opposites. ( C) complementary opposites. ( D) contradictory opposites. 9 It is taken as a great contribution made by_that languages in
6、 the world are classified into different language families according to their genetic relations. ( A) modern linguists ( B) traditional grammarians ( C) sociolinguists ( D) historical linguists 10 The basic components of a sentence include ( A) a noun and a verb. ( B) a subject and a predicate. ( C)
7、 a noun and a predicate. ( D) a subject and a verb. 11 The first immigrants in American history came from_ , some running away from religious and political persecution and some coming as adventures from Europe for a better life. ( A) England and Germany ( B) England and Ireland ( C) England and the
8、Netherlands ( D) England and Spain 12 The English Civil War in the 17th century is also called ( A) the Puritan Revolution. ( B) the second Magna Carta. ( C) the Long Parliament. ( D) the Anglican War. 13 The World War I broke out on June 28th, ( A) 1914. ( B) 1917. ( C) 1815. ( D) 1918 14 The theme
9、 of Thanksgiving has always been ( A) friendship and happiness. ( B) peace and plenty. ( C) cooperation and rich reward. ( D) love and happiness. 15 The Victorian Age was largely an age of_ , eminently represented by Dickens and Thackeray. ( A) poetry ( B) drama ( C) prose ( D) novel 16 _is the firs
10、t important governess novel in the English literary history. ( A) Jane Eyre ( B) Emma ( C) Wuthering Heights ( D) She Walks in Beauty 17 Australia, which is one of the worlds developed countries, has become rich through ( A) manufacturing industries. ( B) farming and mining. ( C) service industries.
11、 ( D) forestry and fishing. 18 Which of the following words is NOT a derivative? ( A) Physician. ( B) Facial. ( C) Unify. ( D) Nicer. 19 In some languages like_, pitch variations are meaning distinctive. Therefore they are called tone languages. ( A) Chinese ( B) English ( C) French ( D) German 20 T
12、he statement “There is more politeness in womens language. “ is a view of ( A) pragmatics. ( B) historical linguistics. ( C) sociolinguistics. ( D) psycholinguistics. 21 Since 1971 the Canadian government has adopted policy of_ , recognizing that cultural pluralism within a bilingual framework is th
13、e essence of the Canadian identity. ( A) assimilation ( B) integration ( C) multiculturalism ( D) gender equality 22 In the United Kingdom, police officers are not allowed to join_or to go on strike. ( A) a trade union ( B) a choir ( C) a political party ( D) a club 23 The US Constitution requires t
14、hat the president should be a_-year-old native born American citizen, living in the States for 14 years. ( A) 25 ( B) 35 ( C) 45 ( D) 40 24 In English Civil War, also called the Puritan Revolution, a famous general _defeated the king at Naseby in 1645. ( A) Cromwell ( B) Montford ( C) Robert ( D) Ri
15、chard 25 _is considered to be the best-known English dramatist since Shakespeare, and his representative works are plays inspired by social criticism. ( A) George Gordon Byron ( B) D.H. Lawrence ( C) Oscar Wilde ( D) Bernard Shaw 26 Chinese poetry and philosophy have exerted great influence over ( A
16、) Ezra Pound. ( B) Ralph Waldo Emerson. ( C) Robert Frost. ( D) Emily Dickinson. 27 In which of the following works can you find the proper names “Lilliput“ , “Brob-dingnag“ , “Houyhnhnm“ and “Yahoo“? ( A) James Joyces Ulysses. ( B) Charles Dickenss Bleak House. ( C) Jonathan Swifts Gullivers Travel
17、s. ( D) Lawrences Women in Love. 28 “Underprivileged people“ is often used by the mass media as a substitute for “poor people“. Linguistically, the former is referred to as a(n) ( A) linguistic taboo. ( B) slangy expression. ( C) high-sounding expression. ( D) euphemism. 29 _approach the same lingui
18、stic unit from different perspectives. ( A) Syntax and semantics ( B) Phonology and pragmatics ( C) Phonetics and morphology ( D) Semantics and pragmatics 30 In the word “unpredictable“ , “pre-“ is a(n) ( A) free morpheme. ( B) bound morpheme. ( C) inflectional morpheme. ( D) stem. 31 Britain is sep
19、arated from the rest of Europe by the English Channel in the_ and the North Sea in the east. ( A) east ( B) south ( C) west ( D) north 32 The objective of the Chartist Movement was democratic right for all men, and it took its name from “_ “. ( A) The Bill of Rights ( B) The Agreement oj the People
20、( C) The Peoples Charter ( D) The Great Charter 33 In Britain, ministers are appointed by the Queen on the recommendation of ( A) the Lord Chancellor. ( B) the Prime Minister. ( C) the Speaker. ( D) the Parliamentary Commissioner. 34 Martin Luther King, Jr. , a young black clergyman, became a nation
21、al leader of the_Movement in the 1950s. ( A) Civil Rights ( B) Boycott ( C) Segregation ( D) Integration 35 Which of the following best describes the nature of Thomas Hardys later works? ( A) Sentimentalism. ( B) Tragic sense. ( C) Surrealism. ( D) Comic sense. 36 Linguistically, compared with the w
22、ritings of Mark Twain, Henry Jamess fiction is noted lor his ( A) frontier vernacular. ( B) rich colloquialism. ( C) vulgarly descriptive words. ( D) refined elegant language. 37 A typical feature of the English Victorian literature is that writers became social and moral_, exposing all kinds of soc
23、ial evils. ( A) revolutionaries ( B) idealists ( C) critics ( D) defenders 38 _looks at language from a psychological point of view, and to him, competence is a property of the mind of each individual. ( A) Chomsky ( B) Saussure ( C) Sapir ( D) Hall 39 Which of the following words is inflectional? (
24、 A) unfair ( B) carefree ( C) submarine ( D) going 40 English has undergone dramatic periods. The_period is roughly from 449 to 1100. ( A) Ancient English ( B) Old English ( C) Middle English ( D) Modern English 41 The longest river in Britain is ( A) the Clyde. ( B) the Mersey. ( C) the Severn. ( D
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