专八人文知识题库【第1期】

专八人文知识题库【第一期】

1. The novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was written by_____.

A. Henry James   B. O. Henry   C. Harriet Beecher Stower   D. Mark Twain 

2. The word holiday originally meant holy day; but now the word signifies any day on which we don’t have to work. This is an example of____.

A. meaning shift   B. widening of meaning   C. narrowing of meaning   D. loss of meaning 

3. Which of the following cities is NOT located in the Northeast, U.S.?

A. Huston   B. Baltimore   C. Philadelphia   D. Boston

4. Which of the following is NOT a Romantic Poet?

A. William Wordsworth   B. Percy B. Shelley   C. George G. Byron   D. George Eliot 

5. The study of ____ is Syntax.

A. textual organization    B. sentence structures    C. word formation   D. language functions 

6. The capital city of Canada is ____.

A. Montreal   B. Ottawa   C. Vancouver   D. York 

7. The longest river in Britain is ____.

A. Severn   B. Tees   C. Thames   D. Clyde

8. In ____ the Romans conquered Greece.

A. 146 B.C.   B. 1200 B.C.   C. 700 B.C.   D. the 5^th century 

9. In his inaugural speech, ____ said that “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself”.

A. Woodrow Wilson   B. Franklin D. Roosevelt   C. Harry Truman   D. Benjamin Franklin 

10. The Head of the Representatives is called ____.

A. Chancellor   B. Speaker   C. Chairman   D. Leader