2007年英语专业八级人文知识试题及答案

　　31. The majority of the current population in the UK are descendants 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
　　Key: CDACD CABDA

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