英语专业 八级模拟人文知识测试(三)

__1__ ___ is the capital of Scotland.
A Dublin
B Edinburgh
C Cardiff
D New Castle

__2__ In history, Romans occupied Britain for about ___ years.
A 700
B 600
C 500
D 400

__3__ You can find the Grand Canyon in the State of ___.
A Arizona
B California
C New Mexico
D Chicago

__4__ Around ___ of New Zealanders are found in North Island.
A 3/4
B 1/2
C 3/5
D 2/5

__5__ In his novel Robinson Crusoe. Defoe portrayed successfully an image of an enterprising Englishman, typical of the English bourgeoisie in the ___ century.
A 16th
B 17th
C 18th
D 19th

__6__ In his works, Defoe praised the industrious, sturdy ___ and showed his sympathy for the downtrodden, unfortunate poor.
A working people
B aristocrats
C middle-class people
D capitalist upstarts

__7__ To some extent, the Romantic Movement revealed a ___ attitude toward the social and political conditions then.
A positive
B negative
C neutral
D prejudiced

__8__ In semantic studies, ___ refers to the inherent meaning of the linguistic form.
A sense
B synonym
C homonym
D reference

__9__ A linguistic situation in which two standard languages are used either by an individual or by a group of speakers is called ___.
A situational dialect
B slang
C linguistic taboo
D bilingualism

__10__ Syntactic change includes all the following EXCEPT ___.
A rule loss
B affix loss
C rule addition
D rule change

答案:
1. 选B。爱丁堡市是苏格兰首都。本题属于历史类问题。
2. 选D。历史上，罗马人曾占领英国约有400年之久。。本题属于历史类问题。
3. 选A。你可在美国的亚利桑那州找到大峡谷风景区。本题属于地理类问题。
4. 选A。约有四分之三的新西兰人在北岛居住。本题属于地理类问题。
5. 选C。通过其小说《鲁宾逊漂流记》，笛福成功地描绘了一个富有进取精神的、18世纪英国资产阶级的典型形象。。本题属于英国文学类问题。
6. 选C。通过自己的作品，笛福讴歌了勤劳、坚定的中产阶级，并对饱受蹂躏、命运被产的穷人表示了同情。。本题属于英国文学类问题。
7. 选B。在某种程度上，浪漫主义运动揭示了对当时社会、政治状况的否定态度。。本题属于英国文学背景类问题。
8. 选A。这道题考查语义学中意义的概念。
9. 选D。这套题考查考生对双语现象的理解。
10.选B。这道题考查句法变化的涵盖面。