2009年英语专业八级人文知识真题及答案
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