【精品】专八人文知识模拟题.doc

【精品】专八人文知识模拟题.docB1. St. Lawrence and Rver Columbia are shared by both
A America and Mexico
B America and Canada
C America and Cuba
D America and Brazil
C2. European settleme nt of Australia beg a n in the late part of when a British penal c
olony was established on the east coast of the con tine nt.
A the 16th century
Bthe 17th century
Cthe 18th century
D the 19th century
A3. Which sport is supposed to be America's national sport and used to be callAmerican
's favorable pastime"?
A baseball
B basketball
C rugby
D cricket
A4. The largest city in New Zealand is
A Auckland
B Wellingto n
C Christchurch
D Dunedin
Adam Bede,
wrote The Mill on the Floss and Sias Marner in which moral problems arediscussed and psychological analysis of characters are emphasized.
A George Eliot
B Jane Austin
C George Dicke ns
D Charlotte Bronte
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
A7. Of 's four famous comedies, the best known is Lady Windermere5s Fan.
A Oscar Wilde
B Richard Sheridan
C Bernard Shaw
D Somerset Maugham
C8. If the air stream meets with no obstruction when a sound is pronounced, it is a(n)
A voiced consonant
B voiceless con sonant
C vowel
D explosive
A9. The internationally accepted system of phonetic transcription is




B10. With the , Latin words were added into the vocabulary of the Ianguage spoke
n in Britain.
A in vasion of the Roma ns
B Christianization of Britain
C Scandinavian invasion
D Norman Conquest
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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。
D1 .The national epic of the Anglo-Saxons is .
A Robin Hood
B Sr Gawain and the Green Knight
CThe Canterbury Tales
D Beowulf
C2. was the most outstanding single romanee on the
Arthuria n lege nd written in alliterative verse.
A The Canterbury Tales
B Piers the Plowman
CSr Gawain and the