專八人文知識模擬試題(11)

　　1、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

　　2、The three largest cities in Canada do NOT include.

　　A Toronto

　　B Quebec

　　C Ottawa

　　D Vancouver

　　3、Aboriginal culture in Australia is said to be more than ___ years old.

　　A 20,000

　　B 30,000

　　C 40,000

　　D 50,000

　　4、 It is known that Irish landscape in featured by ___.

　　A bogs

　　B mountains

　　C grassland

　　D rivers

　　5、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

　　6、 “The novel is structured around the discovery of the hero’s origin.” Probably this refers to the novel ___.

　　A Wuthering Heights

　　B The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

　　C David Copperfield

　　D Gulliver’s Travels

　　7、___ was considered to be the greatest dramatist in the 18th century.

　　A Henry Fielding

　　B Laurence Sterne

　　C Oliver Goldsmith

　　D Richard B. Sheridan

　　8、The branch of linguistics that studies how context influences the way speakers interpret sentences is called ___.

　　A pragmatics

　　B semantics

　　C sociolinguistics

　　D psycholinguistics

　　9、Which of the following words can connect two clauses in a coordinate sentence?

　　A Through

　　B When

　　C But

　　D If

　　10、Which of the following is NOT considered part of semantic change?

　　A Semantic broadening

　　B Compounding

　　C Semantic narrowing

　　D Semantic shift

　　參考答案：

　　1. 選B.在英國，下院擁有最高立法權(quán).本題術(shù)語發(fā)展現(xiàn)狀類問題.

　　2. 選C.加拿大三大城市不包括渥太華.本題術(shù)語發(fā)展現(xiàn)狀類問題.

　　3. 選C.據(jù)說澳大利亞的土著文化擁有四千多年的歷史.本題屬于文化傳統(tǒng)類問題.

　　4. 選A.眾所周知，愛爾蘭地貌特點是沼澤地.本題屬于地理類問題.

　　5. 選D.除了《羅密歐與朱麗葉》之外，其他下列戲劇皆為莎士比亞的喜劇作品.本題屬于英國文學(xué)類問題.

　　6. 選B.“小說結(jié)構(gòu)是圍繞主人公的身世發(fā)現(xiàn)來安排的”這句話可能是指小說《棄兒湯姆.瓊斯的來歷》.本題屬于英國文學(xué)類問題.

　　7. 選D.理查德.B.謝立丹被認為是18世紀(jì)最偉大的劇作家.本題屬于英國文學(xué)類問題.

　　8. 選A.這道題檢查考生是否知曉語用學(xué)的含義.

　　9. 選C.這套題檢查考生對別列舉的了解.

　　10.選B.這道題檢查考生對語義變化內(nèi)容的了解.