英语专八人文知识冲刺

英语专八人文知识需要考生基本了解主要英语国家的地理、历史、现状、文化传统以及英语文学知识和英语语言知识。小编整理了2015英语专八人文知识供考生们参考。

1. St. Lawrence and River Columbia are shared by both ____

A America and Mexico

B America and Canada

C America and Cuba

D America and Brazil

2. European settlement of Australia began in the late part of ____ when a British penal colony was established on the east coast of the continent.

A the 16th century

B the 17th century

C the 18th century

D the 19th century

3. Which sport is supposed to be America’s national sport and used to be call “American’s favorable pastime”?

A baseball

B basketball

C rugby

D cricket

4. The largest city in New Zealand is ____

A Auckland

B Wellington

C Christchurch

D Dunedin

5. After Adam Bede,____wrote The Mill on the Floss and Silas Marner in which moral problems are discussed and psychological analysis of characters are emphasized.

A George Eliot

B Jane Austin

C George Dickens

D Charlotte Bronte

of the following odes are written by John Keats EXCEPT____

A Ode to Autumn

B Ode to a Nightingale

C Ode to a Skylark

D Ode on Melancholy

7. Of____’s four famous comedies, the best known is Lady Windermere’s Fan.

A Oscar Wilde

B Richard Sheridan

C Bernard Shaw

D Somerset Maugham

8. If the air stream meets with no obstruction when a sound is pronounced, it is a(n) ____

A voiced consonant

B voiceless consonant

C vowel

D explosive

9. The internationally accepted system of phonetic transcription is ____

A I.P.A

B I.A.P.S

C I.S.S

D S.S.I.P

10. With the ____, Latin words were added into the vocabulary of the language spoken in Britain.

A invasion of the Romans

B Christianization of Britain

C Scandinavian invasion

D Norman Conquest

答案

BCAAA CACAB

9. 国际音标(international phonetic alphabet)是目前世界上比较通行的音标，简称IPA，最初制定于1886年。