专八人文知识题库【第4期】

1.The election of ____ made Margaret Thatcher to power and she became the first woman prime minister.

A 1979
B 1980
C 1982
D 1992

2.In which novel can "Yahoo" be found?
A John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress
B Edmund Spencer's The Faerie Queen
C Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels
D Henry Fielding's Tom Jones

3.According to the Official Language of Act of Canada, there are two official language in this country: they are____
A English and Spanish
B English and Portuguese
C English and French
D English and Celtic

4.In Britain, ___ has the ultimate authority of legislation.
A the Queen
B the House of Commons
C the House of Lords
D the Prime Minister

5.The morpheme “scope” in the common word “telescope” is a(n) ___.
A bound morpheme
B bound form
C inflectional morpheme
D free morpheme

6.The Old Man and the Sea is one of the great works by ____
A Jack London
B Charles Dickens
C Samuel Coleridge
D Ernest Hemingway

7.The Presidents during the American Civil War was .
A Andrew Jackson
B Abraham Lincoln
C Thomas Jefferson
D George Washington

8.The three largest cities in Canada do NOT include.
A Toronto
B Quebec
C Ottawa
D Vancouver

9.Richard Nixon resigned in 1974 because of ____.
A the Great Depression
B the Black Power Movement
C the Watergate Scandal
D the Isolation policy

10.The following plays are comedies by Shakespeare EXCEPT ___.
A A Midsummer Night’s Dream
B As You Like It
C The Merchant of Venice
D Romeo and Juliet