2021英语专业八级考试真题卷（9）.docx

2021英语专业八级考试真题卷（9）本卷共分为1大题50小题，作答时间为180分钟，总分100分，60分及格。一、单项选择题（共50题，每题2分。每题的备选项中，只有一个最符合题意） 1.The two major novelists of the Romantic period are Jane Austen andACharles Dickens.BCharlotte Bronte.CWalter Scott.DGeorge Bernard Shaw. 2.Which of the following is NOT a masterpiece of William. FaulknerALight in August.BAbsalom, Absalam.CThe Sound and the Fury.DO, Pioneers. 3.The religious leader of the Church of England isAPresbyterian.BAnglican.CArchbishop of Canterbury.DQueen. 4.The meaning of language was considered as something _ in traditional semantics.AcontextualBnaturalCintrinsicDlogical 5.English language belongs toAIndo-European Family.BSino-Tibetan Family.CAustronesian Family.DAfroasiatic Family. 6.English is the language most commonly spoken throughout Canada, EXCEPT FOR the province of_.AQuebecBNova ScotiaCNew BrunswickDAlberta 7.Hemingway was badly wounded in Italy and sent to a hospital where he fell in love with a nurse. These two persons later became the characters of his novel_.AThe Old Man and the SeaBFor Whom the Bell TollsCThe Sun Also RisesDA Farewell to Arms 8.The decade of 1980s is remembered in Britain as the era of_.AcentralizationBnationalizationCprivatizationDindustrialization 9.An American Dictionary of the English Language was published in 1828 by _.ASamuel JohnsonBNoah WebsterCDaniel WebsterDDaniel Defoe 10.In the U.S., the senatorial term is _years.A3B4C6D8 11.Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in _.A1937B1939C1941D1943 12.The capital of Scotland is _.ABelfastBCardiffCEdinburghDDublin 13.The fact that ability to speak a language is transmitted from generation to generation by a process of learning, and not genetically is usually referred to as _.AperformanceBlanguage acquisitionCcultural transmissionDcompetence 14.Morphemes that can occur "unattached" are called_ morphemes.AinflectionalBboundCfreeDderivational 15."Shall I compare thee to a summer's day " This is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare's _.AsongsBplaysCcomediesDsonnets 16.Which one of the four American writers won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993ASaul Bellow.BJoseph Brodsky.CToni Morrison.DIsaac Basheris Singer. 17.When did English novelist William Golding receive his Nobel Prize in LiteratureA1981.B1982.C1983.D1984. 18.The national plant of New Zealand is the _.ATaraxacumBChrysanthemumCHoneysuckleDPohutukawa 19._ are those rules which relate or transform the deep structure of a sentence into the surface structure.ATransformational rulesBParadigmatic relationsCNational languagesDNew stylistics 20.studies the mathematical features of language, often employing models and concepts of mathematics.AAnthropological linguisticsBApplied linguisticsCMathematical linguisticsDComputational linguistics 21.A linguistic study is _ if it describes and analyses facts observed.AdescriptiveBgraphemicCfunctionalDfricative 22.Which one of the four novels was written by Norman MailerAThe heart of the matter.BCry, the Beloved Country.CThe Harp in the South.DThe Naked and the Dead. 23._ is the largest city and one of the chief ports of the United States.AChicagoBNew York CityCDetroitDSan Francisco 24.The first known settlers of Brain were the _.ANormansBVikingsCGermansDIberians 25.Canada's parliament consists of_, the Senate and the House of Commons.Athe QueenBthe PresidentCthe Prime ministerDthe Governor 26.I Question 7 is based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given I0 seconds to answer the question. Now listen to the news./IAPalestinian leader and Israeli Prime MinisterBPalestinian leader and Israeli Foreign MinisterCPalestinian leader and Israeli PresidentDPakistani leader and Israeli Defense Minister 27.I Question 8 is based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the question. Now listen to the news./IAa Baghdad shopBa Baghdad restaurantCa Bangkok shopDa Bangkok restaurant 28._ is the basic unit of research in Morphology.AmorphemeBphonemeClexemeDphone 29._ is not a derivational word.ABlack boardBTeachersCConsiderationDBookshop 30._ was greatly influenced by Chinese and Japanese poetry.AEzra PoundBWalt WhitmanCRobert FrostDEdgar Allan Poe 31._ inside the sentence is the opposite to linear relations in syntax.ASyntactic relationsBParadigmatic relationsCAgreementDGovernment 32._ is the core of the English Government.Athe SovereignBthe House of LordsCthe House of CommonsDthe Cabinet 33.The young people in the post-WWI era are referred to as "_".Athe Boom GenerationBthe Lost GenerationCthe YuppiesDthe Cowboys 34._ forced Nixon to resign in 1973.AThe Watergate ScandalBThe Iran-gate ScandalCThe Un-American Activities CommitteeDThe New Right 35._ is written by Edmond Spencer.ATamburlaineBKing LearCUtopiaDThe Faerie Queene 36._ wrote The Adventures of Torn Sawyer.AHarriet Beecher StoweBMark TwainCO HenryDHenry James 37.Melbourne is located _.Ain CanadaBin New ZealandCin IrelandDin Australia 38.Where do the majority of people in Scotland liveAIn the Highlands.BIn the Lowlands.CIn the Uplands.DIn the Northwest of Highlands 39.The majority of poem in Lyrical Ballads were written by _.AWilliam WordsworthBJohn KeatsCS.T. ColeridgeDPercy Bysshe Shelley 40.Who was the first great prose stylist of American romanticismAWashington Irving.BJames Fenimore Cooper.CWilliam Cullen Bryant.DNathaniel Hawthorne. 41.Where is Lake Louise locatedAIn the northern part of Canada.BOn the Canadian-American border.COn the east coast.DIn the Rockies. 42.The novel Oliver Twist was written by _.AJane AustenBJohn KeatsCCharles DickensDGeorge Eliot 43.Harriet Beccher Stowe, the author of _, had become the most famous literary woman in the world.AThe Adventures of Tom SawyerBThe Sea WolfCUncle Tom' s GabinDSong of Myself 44.How many terms can a president in the United States be elected to at mostA1.B2.C3.D4. 45.Northern Ireland is well known in the United Kingdom mainly for its _.Apolitical problemsBpopulationClandDculture 46.Which of the following is a compound wordAElevator.BFormal.CEvaluative.DFlashlight. 47.The word task originally meant money to be paid by people of businesses to a government for public purposes, but now it refers to work that has to be done. This is an example of _.Anarrowing of meaningBwidening of meaningCmeaning shiftDloss of meaning 48.President Jefferson bought _ from France and doubled the country's territory.ANew MexicoBthe Louisiana TerritoryCKansasDOhio 49.Semantics is the study of _.AwordsBsentencesCcontextDmeaning 50.Which American university is with the longest historyAYaleBOxfordCHarvardDStanford第17页 共17页第 17 页 共 17 页第 17 页 共 17 页第 17 页 共 17 页第 17 页 共 17 页第 17 页 共 17 页第 17 页 共 17 页第 17 页 共 17 页第 17 页 共 17 页第 17 页 共 17 页第 17 页 共 17 页