2009英語專業(yè)八級人文知識真題及答案

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31. The Head of State of New Zealand is ______.
    A. the governor-general B. the Prime Minister
    C. the high commissioner
    D. the monarch of United Kingdom
    32. The capital of Scotland is ______.
    A. Glasgow B. Edinburgh
    C. Manchester D. London
    33. Who write the Declaration of Independence and later became the U.S. President ?
    A. Thomas Jefferson B. George Washington
    C. Thomas Paine D. John Adams
    34. Which is the following cities is located on the eastern coast of Australia ?
    A. Perth B. Adelaide
    C. Sydney D. Melbourne
    35. Ode to the West Wind was written by ______.
    A. Willian Blake B. Willian Wordsworth
    C. Samuel Taylor Coleridege
    D. Percy Bysshe Shelley
    36. Who among the following is a poet of free verse ?
    A. Ralph Waldo Emerson B. Walt Whitman
    C. Herman Melville D. Theodore Dreiser
    37. The novel Sons and Lovers was written by ______.
    A. Thomas Hardy B. John Galworhty
    C. D.H. Lawrence D. James Joyce
    38. The sstudy of mental processes of language comprehension and production is ______.
    A. corpus linguistics B. socialinguistics
    C. theoretical linguistics D. psycholinguistics
    39. A special language variety that mixes languages and is used by speakers of different languages for purposes of trading is called ______.
    A. dialect B. idiolect C. pidgin D. register
    40. When a speake expresses his intension of speaking, such as asking someone to open the window, he is performing ______.
    A. an illocutionary act B. a perlocutionary act
    C. a locutionary act D. none of the above
    Key: 31-35 DBACD 36-40 BCDCA