英语人文知识习题英语人文知识习题.doc

__1__Where is Edinburgh? 　　A In Wales B In Scotland C In Northern Ireland D In Ireland 　　__2__ Which of the following is Not a U.S. news and cable network? 　　A ABC B CNN C CBS D BBC 　　__3__The Capital of Australia is __. 　　A Sydney B Melbourne C Canberra D Perth 　　__4__ Which degree is offered in community colleges in the United States? 　　A Master’s degree B Doctor’s degree C Bachelor’s degree D Associate’s degree 　　__5__ George Bernard Shaw was a(n) __. 　　A playwright B poet C novelist D essayist 　　__6__ John Galsworthy was most famous for__. 　　A Heart of Darkness B Ulysses C The Forsyste Saga D A Passage to India 　　__7__ The novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was written by__. 　　A Henry James B O. Henry C Harriet Beccher Stower D Mark Twain 　　__8__The study of how sounds are put together and used to convey meaning in condition is__. 　　A morphology B general linguistics C phonology D semantics 　　__9__Which of the following is NOT a compound word? 　　A Landlady B Greenhouse C Uplift D Unacceptable 　　__10__ The word holiday originally meant holy day; but now the word signifies any which we don’t have to work. This is an example of __. 　A meaning shift B widening of meaning C narrowing of meaning D loss of meaning 　　答案：1-5 BDCDA 6-10 CDCDB 　　1. 选B. Wales的首府威Cardiff, Scotland的首府为Edinburgh. Northern Ireland的首府Belfast, Ireland的首府为Dublin. 　　2. 选 D。 BBC=British Broadcasting Corporation英国广播公司, ABC=American Broadcasting Company, Inc美国广播公司; CNN= Cable News Network美国有线广播公司, CBS= Columbia Broadcasting System哥伦比亚广播公司 　　3. 选C。Sydney第一城市, 位于New South Wales州;Melbourne第二大城市位于Victoria州，Canberra位于Sydney与Melbourne之间;Perth位于Australia州 　　4. 选D。 Associate’s degree是准学士学位 (喵猜这个相当我们说的大专吧) 　　5. 选A。George Bernard Shaw (英国，萧伯纳)，爱尔兰籍，剧作家，批评家，社会评论家，主要作品有Man and Superman, Back to Methuselah, Saint Joan 圣女贞德，Arms and the Man, Pygmalion 茶花女，获得1925年诺贝尔文学奖。(喵，小云的上期文学七里香就是介绍了他噢) 　　6. 选C。John Galsworthy(英国),小说家，剧作家。主要作品有The Forsyte Saga福塞特家史，于1932年获得了诺贝尔文学奖;Heart of Darkness,作者Joseph Conrad，波兰籍英国小说