英语专八人文知识冲刺

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英语专八人文知识冲刺

　　英语专八人文知识需要考生基本了解主要英语国家的地理、历史、现状、文化传统以及英语文学知识和英语语言知识。小编整理了2015英语专八人文知识供考生们参考。

英语专八人文知识冲刺

　　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. 国际音标(international phonetic alphabet)是目前世界上比较通行的音标，简称IPA，最初制定于1886年。

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