专八人文知识模拟题.docx

专八人文知识模拟题.docx1、Who am ong the follow ing is a poet of free verse?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Walt Whitman
Herman Melville
Theodore Dreiser
Wh ich of the follow i ng is not a work of Em ily Dick in son ?
I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died
The Raven
This is My Letter to the World
I Like to See it Lap the Mlles
3、Poe's first collection of stories is .
Tades of a Traveler
Leather Stocking Tales
The Canterbury Tales
Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque
2012英语专八人文知识备考练****br/>St. Lawrence and River Columbia are shared by both _b
A America and Mexico
B America and Canada
C America and Cuba
D America and Brazil
European settlement of Australia began in the late part of —c— 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
Which sport is supposed to be AmericaJ s national sport and used to be call “American'
s favorable pastime" ?a
2、
—A.
C B.
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匚D.
A baseball
B basketball
C rugby
D cricket
The largest city in New Zealand is
A Auckland
B Wellington
C Christchurch
D Dunedin
After Adam Bede, wrote The Mill on the Floss and Silas Mamer 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
A11 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
Of ，s four famous comedies, the best known is Lady Windermeres Fan.
A Oscar Wilde
B Richard Sheridan
C Bernard Shaw
D Somerset Maugham
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
The internationally accepted system of phonetic transcription is
A
B
C
D
With the , Latin words were added into the voca