专八人文知识练习与测试

人文知识专八考试的.重点，主要考察学生对于世界一些人文知识的掌握等，这要求学生的英语基础扎实，并且课外知识较为广泛。下面，小编为大家提供一些专八人文知识练习与测试，希望对大家有用。

　一、人文知识练习

h of the folowing is NOT a compoundword?

A. Landlady

B. Greenhouse

C. Uplift

D. Unacceptable

word holiday originally meant holy day;but now the word signifies any day on whichwe don't have to work. This is an example of____

A. meanng shift

B. widening of meaning

C. narrowing of meaning

D. loss of meaning

capital of Australia is ____

A. Sydney

B. Melbourne

C. Canberra

D. Perth

h degree is offered in community colleges in the United States?

A. Master's degree

B. Docter's degree

C. Bachelor's degree

D. Associate's degree

ge Bernard Shaw was a(n) ____

A. playwright

B. poet

C. novelist

D. essayist

Galsworthy was most famous for ____

A. Heart of Darkness

B. Ulysses

C. The Forsyte Saga

D. A Passage to India

novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was written by ____

A. Henry James

B. O. Henry

C. Harriet Beecher Stower

D. Mark Twain

study of how sounds are put together and used to convey meaning incommunication is _______

A. morphology

B. general linguistics

C. phonology

D. semantics

e is Edinburgh?

A. In wales

B. In Scotland

C. In Northern Ireland

D. In Ireland

h of the following is Not a U.S. news and cable network?

A. ABC

B. CNN

C. CBS

D. BBC