2007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. The majority of the current population in the UK are decedents of all the following tribes respectively EXCEPT

A. the Anglos            B. the Celts

C. the Jutes                D. the Saxons

32. The Head of State of Canada is represented by

A. the Monarch                    B. the President

C. the Prime Minister           D. the Governor-general

33. The Declaration of Independence was written by

A. Thomas Jefferson              B. George Washington

C. Alexander Hamilton           D. James Madison

34. The original inhabitants of Australia were

A. the Red Indians               B. the Eskimos

C. the Aborigines                 D. the Maoris

35. Which of the following novels was written by Emily Bronte?

A. Oliver Twist                   B. Middlemarch

C. Jane Eyre                        D. Wuthering Heights

36. William Butler Yeats was a(n) ______ poet and playwright.

A. American                         B. Canadian

C. Irish                                 D. Australian

37. Death of a Salesman was written by

A. Arthur Miller                    B. Ernest Hemingway

C. Ralph Ellison                     D. James Baldwin

38. _______ refers to the study of the internal structure of words and the rules of word formation.

A. Phonology                        B. Morphology 

C. Semantics                         D. Sociolinguistics

39. The distinctive features of a speech variety may be all the following EXCEPT

A. lexical                                B. syntactic

C. phonological                     D. psycholinguistic

40. The word tail once referred to “the tail of a horse”, but now it is used to mean “the tail of any animal.” This is an example of

A. widening of meaning              B. narrowing of meaning

C. meaning shift                         D. loss of meaning