人文知识：英美文学及语言学部分试题及答案.doc

人文知识：英美文学和语言学部分试题及答案

一、英国文学部分精选试题
1. The Renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events, which one of the following is not such an event?
A. The rediscovery of ancient Rome and Greek culture.
B. England's domestic rest.
C. New discovery in geography and astrology.
D. The religious reformation and the economic expansion.
2. Which of the following is regarded as the most successful religious allegory in the English language.
A. The Pilgrim's Progress  B. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
C. The Life and Death of Mr. Badman  D. The Holy War
3. It is           alone who, for the first time in English literature, presented to us a comprehensive realistic picture of the English society of his time and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life.
A. Geoffrey Chaucer B. Martin Luther C. William Langland D. John Gower
4.  All of the following four except           are the most eminent dramatists in the Renaissance England.
A. Francis Bacon B. Christopher Marlowe C. William Shakespeare D. Ben Jonson
5. It is generally regarded that Keats's most important and mature poems are in the form of         .
 A. elegy B. ode C. epic D. sonnet
6. Daniel Defoe's novels mainly focus on           .
  A. the struggle of the unfortunate for mere existence
 B. the struggle of the shipwrecked persons for security
 C. the struggle of the pirates for wealth
 D. the desire of the criminals for property
7. In Beowulf,            fought against the monster Grendel and a five breathing dragon.
 A. the Anglo-Saxons B. Beowulf C. the Scandinavian D. the Winter Dragon
8. Francis Bacon is best known for his         which greatly influenced the development of this literary form.
 A. essays B. poems C. works D plays
9. Most of Thomas Hardy's novels are set in Wessex             .
  A. a crude region in England B. a fictional primitive region
 C. a remote rural area D. Hardy's hometown
10. We can perhaps describe the west wind in Shelley's poem "Ode to the West Wind" with all the following terms except               .
 A. swift B. proud C. tamed D. wild
11. "Blindness", "partiality", "prejudice", and "absurdity" in the novel "Pride and Prejudice" are most likely the characteristics of            .
 A. Elizabeth B. Darcy C. Mr. Bennet D. Mrs. Bennet
12. The modern English novel came into being in           .
 A. the middle of the 17th century B. the 17th century
 C. the late 18th century D. the middle of the 18th century
13. Who is not the major figure of modernist movement?
 A. Eliot B. Joyce C. Charles Dickens D. Pound
14. Who is considered to be the best known English dramatist since Shakespeare?
  A. Oscar Wilde B. John Galsworthy C. W.B. Yeats D. George Bernard Shaw
15. Of the following poets, which is not regarded as "Lake Poets"?
 A. Samuel Taylor Coleridge B. Robert Southy
C. William Words worth D. William Shakespeare
16. In the first part of Gulliver's Travels, Gulliver told his experience in           .
 A. Lilliput B. Brobdingnag C. Houyhnhnm D. England
17. Which of the following cannot describe "Byronic hero"?
  A. proud B. mysterious C. noble origin D progressive
18. In the history of literature, Romanticism is generally regarded as     .
 A. the thought that designates a literary and philosophical theory which tends to see the individual as the very center of all life and all experience.
 B. the thought that designates man as a social animal
 C. the orientation that emphasizes those features which men have in common
 D. the modes of thinking
19. The term "metaphysical poetry" is commonly used to name the work of the 17th century writers who wrote under the influence of            .
 A. John Milton B. John Donne C. John Keats D. John Bunyan
20. "The Vanity Fair" is a well-known part in             .
 A. The Pilgrim's Progress B. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
 C. The Life and Death of Mr. Badman D. The Holy War
21. In Oliver Twist, Charles criticizes                    .
  A. money worshipping tendency B. dehumanizing of workhouse system
  C. hypocrisy of the upper society D. distortion of human heart
22. Which of the following plays by Shakespeare is history play?
 A. Julius Caesar B. The Merry Wives of Windsor C. Henry IV D. King Lear
23. Who is regarded as a "worshipper of nature".
 A. John Keats B. William Blake C. William Wordsworth D. Jane Austen
24. Which of the following writing is not the work by Charles Dickens?
 A. A Tale of Two Cities B. Hard Times C. Oliver Twist D. Sons and Lovers
25. The 18th century England is known as the             in the history.
  A. Romanticism B. Classicism C. Renaissance D. Enlightenment

英国文学部分精选试题答案
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二、美国文学部分精选试题
1. In American literature, the eighteen century was the age of the Enlightenment.           was the dominant spirit.
A. Humanism B. Rationalism C. Revolution D. Evolution
2. Which statement about Franklin is not true?
A. He instructed his countrymen as a printer. B. He was a scientist.
C. He was a master of diplomacy. D. He was a Puritan.
3. Who is regarded as the first American prose epic.
A. Nature B. The Scarlet Letter C. Walden D. Moby-Dick
4. The Romanic Period of American literature started with the publication of Washington Irving's          and ended with Whiteman's Leaves of Grass.
A.The Sketch Book B.Tales of a Traveler C.The Alhambra D.A history of New York
5. In Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, "A" may stand for         .
A. Adultery B. Angel C. Amiable D. All the above
6. The period before the American Civil War is generally referred to as               .
A. the Naturalist Period B. the Modern Period
C. the Romantic Period D. the Realistic Period
7. The Age of Realism is the literary history of the United States refers to the period from      to      .
A. 1861 – 1914 B. 1863 – 1918 C. 1865 – 1914 D. 1865 – 1918
8. Who is described by Mark Twain as a boy with "a sound heart and a deformed conscience?"
A. Tom Sawyer B. Huckleberry Finn C. Jim D. Tony
9. Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his          .
A. international theme B. waste-land imagery C. local color D. symbolism
10. The impact of Darwin's evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the nineteenth-century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to yet another school of realism: American              .
A. modernism B. naturalism C. vernacularism D. local colorism
11. In 1900, London published his first collection of short stories, named              .
A. The son of the Wolf B. The Sea Wolf C. The Law of Life D. White Fang
12. In which of the following works, Hemingway presents his philosophy about life and death through the depiction of the bull-fight as a kind of microcosmic tragedy?
A. The Green Hills of Africa. B. The Snows of Kilimanjaro.
C. To Have and Have Not. D. Death in the Afternoon.
13. Which of the following figures does not belong to "The Lost Generation"?
A. Ezra Pound B. William Carlos Williams C. Robert Frost D. Theodore Dreiser
14. Who is a dramatist that holds the central position in American drama the modernistic period?
A. Sinclair Levis B. Eugene O'Neil C. Arthur Miller D. Tennessee Williams
15. The following writers were awarded Nobel Prize for literature except           .
A. William Faulkner B. F. Scott Fitzgerald C. John Steinbeck D. Ernest Hemingway
16. In 1954,            was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature for his "mastery of the art of modern narration".
A. T.S. Eliot B. Ernest Hemingway C. John Steinbeck D. William Faulkner
17. Who is the author of the work: "The Grapes of Wrath"?
A. John Steinbeck B. Eugene O'Neil C. F. Scott Fitzgerald D. Theodore Dreiser
18. In 1920 Sinclair Lewis published his memorable denunciation of American small-town provincialism in              .
A. Main Street B. An American Tragedy C. Winesburg, Ohio D. Sister Carrie

美国文学部分精选试题答案
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三、语言学部分精选试题
1. Which of the following statements about language is NOT true?
A. Language is a system B. Language is symbolic
C. Animals also have language D. Language is arbitrary
2. Which of the following features is NOT one of the design features of language?
A. Symbolic B. Dual C. Productive D. Arbitrary
3. What is the most important function of language?
A. Interpersonal B. Phatic C. Informative D. Metalingual
4. Who put forward the distinction between Langue and Parole?
A. Saussure B. Chomsky C. Halliday D. Anonymous
5. According to Chomsky, which is the ideal user's internalized knowledge of his language?
A. competence B. parole C. performance D. langue
6. The function of the sentence "A nice day, isn't it?" is        .
A. informative B. phatic C. directive D. performative
7. Articulatory phonetics mainly studies              .
A. the physical properties of the sounds produced in speech B. the perception of sounds
C. the combination of sounds D. the production of sounds
8. The distinction between vowels and consonants lies in             .
A. the place of articulation B. the obstruction of airstream
C. the position of the tongue D. the shape of the lips
9. Which is the branch of linguistics which studies the characteristics of speech sounds and provides methods for their description, classification and transcription?
A. Phonetics B. Phonology C. Semantics D. Pragmatics
10. Which studies the sound systems in a certain language?
A. Phonetics B. Phonology C. Semantics D. Pragmatics
11. Minimal pairs are used to                  .
A. find the distinctive features of a language B. find the phonemes of a language
C. compare two words D. find the allophones of language
12. Usually, suprasegmental features include             ,length and pitch.
A. phoneme B. speech sounds C. syllables D. stress
13. Which is an indispensable part of a syllable?
A. Coda B. Onset C. Stem D. Peak
14. Which is the smallest unit of language in terms of relationship between expression and content?
A. Word B. Morpheme C. Allomorph D. Root
15. Which studies the internal structure of words, and the rules by which words are formed?
A. Morphology B. Syntax C. Phonology D. Semantics
16. Lexeme is                .
A. a physically definable unit B. the common factor underlying a set of forms
C. a grammatical unit D. an indefinable unit
17. Which of the following sounds does not belong to the allomorphs of the English plural morpheme ?
A. [s] B. [iz] C. [ai] D. [is]
18. All words contain a              .
A. root morpheme B. bound morpheme C. prefix D. suffix
19. The relationship between "fruit" and "apple" is            .
A. homonymy B. hyponymy C. polysemy D. synonymy
20. The part of the grammar that represents a speaker's knowledge of the structure of phrases and sentences is called           .
A. lexicon B. morphology C. syntax D. semantics
21. Which of the following items is not one of the grammatical categories of English pronouns?
A. gender B. number C. case D. voice
22. The pair of words "lend" and "borrow" are             .
A. gradable opposites B. converse opposites C. co-hyponyms D. synonyms
23. "Big" and "Small" are a pair of             opposites.
A. complementary B. gradable C. complete D. converse
24. According to C. Morris and R. Carnap, which is studies the relationship between symbols and their interpreters?
A. syntax B. semantics C. pragmatics D. sociolinguistics
25. There are           deixis in the sentence she has sold it here yesterday.
A. 3 B. 4 C. 5 D. 6
26. In the following conversation:
- Beirut is in Peru, isn't it?
- And Rome is in Romania, I suppose.
The second person violates the            .
A. Quantity Maxim B. Quality Maxim C. Relation Maxim D. Manner Maxim
27. The maxim of requires that a participant's contribution be relevant to the        conversation.
A. quantity B. quality C. manner D. relation

语言学部分精选试题答案
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