2005英语专业八级考试全真试题附答案

【人文知识】

PART III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (10 MIN)

31. ______ is the capital city of Canada.
A. Vancouver
B. Ottawa √
C. Montreal
D. York

32. U.S. presidents normally serves a (an) _________term.
A. two-year
B. four-year √
C. six-year
D. eight-year

33. Which of the following cities is NOT located in the Northeast, U.S.?
A. Huston. √
B. Boston.
C. Baltimore.
D. Philadelphia.

34. ________ is the state church in England.
A. The Roman Catholic Church.
B. The Baptist Church
C. The Protestant Church
D. The Church of England √

注：The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and acts as the mother and senior branch of the worldwide Anglican Communion as well as a founding member of the Porvoo Communion.

35. The novel Emma is written by
A. Mary Shelley.
B. Charlotte Brontë.
C. Elizabeth C. Gaskell.
D. Jane Austen. √

36. Which of following is NOT a romantic poet?
A. William Wordsworth.
B. George Elliot. √
C. George G. Byron.
D. Percy B. Shelley.

37. William Sidney Porter, known as O. Henry, is most famous for
A. his poems.
B. his plays.
C. his short stories. √
D. his novels

注：O. Henry was the pen name of William Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862 - June 5, 1910), He was famous for his short stories and a master of the surprise ending, O. Henry is remembered best for such enduring favorites as "The Gift of the Magi" and "The Ransom of Red Chief." The combination of humor and sentiment found in his stories is the basis of their universal appeal.

38. Syntax is the study of
A. language functions.
B. sentence structures. √
C. textual organization.
D. word formation.

注：Definition of Syntax:

a. The study of the rules whereby words or other elements of sentence structure are combined to form grammatical sentences.
b. A publication, such as a book, that presents such rules.
c. The pattern of formation of sentences or phrases in a language.
d. Such a pattern in a particular sentence or discourse.

39. Which of the following is NOT a distinctive feature of human language?
A. Arbitrariness. 任意性
B. Productivity. 丰富性
C. Cultural transmission. 文化传播性
D. Finiteness. 局限性 ？

注：design feature: features that define our human languages,such as arbitrariness,duality,creativity,displacement,cultural transmission,etc.

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40. The speech act theory was first put forward by
A. John Searle.
B. John Austin. √
C. Noam Chomsky.
D. M.A.K. Halliday.

注：John Langshaw Austin (March 28, 1911 - February 8, 1960) was a philosopher of language, who developed much of the current theory of speech acts. He was born in Lancaster and educated at Balliol College, Oxford. After serving in MI6 during World War II, Austin became White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford. He occupies a place in the British philosophy of language alongside Wittgenstein in staunchly advocating the examination of the way words are used in order to elucidate meaning.