英语 专业八级人文知识冲刺卷九
1. 发音部位（places of articulation）：双唇音(bilabial)、唇齿音(labiodental)、齿间音(dental)等；
2.发音方法(manners of articulation)：、爆破音(stop)、摩擦音(fricatives)、破擦音(affricates)、鼻音(nasal)、边音(lateral)等；
3.声带状态：清辅音、浊辅音。
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10. English consonants can be classified into stops, fricatives, nasals, etc, in terms of ____
A manner of articulation B openness of mouth
C place of articulation D voicing
选择A而不是C
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
6.All 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。