2006年英语专业八级人文知识试题及答案
31.The Presidents during the American Civil War was_____.
A. Andrew Jackson
B. Abraham Lincoln
C. Thomas Jefferson
D. George Washington
32.The capital of New Zealand is_____.
A. Christchurch
B.Auckland
C. Wellington
D. Hamilton
33.Who were the natives of Austrilia before the arrival of the British settlers?
A.The Aborigines
B. The Maori
C. The Indians
D. The Eskimos
34.The Prime Minister in Britain is head of_____.
A . the Shadow Cabinet
B. the Parliament
C. the Opposition
D. the Cabinet
35.Which of the following writers is a poet of the 20th century?
A. T.S.Eliot B.
D.H.Lawrence
C. Theodore Dreiser
D. James Joyce
36.The novel For Whom the Bell Tolls is written by___.
A. Scott Fitzgerald
B. William Faulkner
C. Eugene O'Neil
D. Ernest Hemingway
37._____ is defined as an expression of human emotion which is condensed into fourteen lines.
A. Free verse
B. Sonnet
C. Ode
D. Epigram
38.What essentially distinguishes semantics and pragmatics is the notion of_____.
A. reference
B. meaning
C. antonymy
D. context
39.The words"kid,child,offspring" are examples of__.
A. dialectal synonyms
B. stylistic synonyms
C. emotive synonyms
D. collocational synonyms
40.The distinction between parole and langue was made by_____.
A. Halliay
B. Chomsky
C. Bloomfield
D. Saussure
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