专八人文知识冲刺(1)

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