2023年湖北英语专业八级考试模拟卷.docx

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1、2023年湖北英语专业八级考试模拟卷本卷共分为1大题43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43题，每题2分。每题的备选项中，只有一个最符合题意） 1.New Zealand is composed of two islands. They are _. Island and _ Island.AThe Fiat Island; the Round IslandBthe Long Island; the Fire IslandCthe Andros Island; the Cayman IslandDthe north island; the south i

2、sland 2.Question 6 is based on the following news.ATony BlairBthe KingCGordon BrownDpresident of Iraq 3.The pair of words borrow and lend are _.A. gradable oppositesB. relational oppositesC. complementary oppositesD. contradictory opposites 4.In 1066, England was invaded by _.A. VikingsB. King of Fr

3、anceC. William of NormanD. King of Scotland 5.The so-called Glorious Revolution of 1688 took place in _.A. FranceB. AmericaC. EnglandD. Japan 6.The use of one name for that of another associated with it is rhetorically called _.A. synecdocheB. metonymyC. substitutionD. metaphor 7.The author of Commo

4、n Sense is _ and he is an _.A. Thomas Paine; AmericanB. Benjamin Jefferson; AmericanC. Thomas Moore; EnglishD. Thomas Paine; English 8.In Shakespeares famous play Romeo and Juliet, what were Romeos and Juliets surnamesA. Rosncrantz and Guidenstern.B. Goneril and Regan.C. Montague and Capulet.D. Faid

5、herbe and Carmontell 9.The Battle of Waterloo was won by the Duke of Wellington over the great _.A. Robert . LeeB. George WashingtonC. JordanD. Napoleon 10.In the following dialogue, the maxim of_is not observed. F: What time is it M: Its terribly cold in here.A. qualityB. quantityC. relevanceD. man

6、ner 11.Question 6 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.APeople suffering from the oil spill will be compensated by BP.BBP oil spill has brought a serious natural disaster in the Gulf.CBP has already p

7、aid $700 million since the start of the disaster.DThe fund to help victims of BP oil spill plans to pay claims quickly. 12.The only black woman writer awarded Nobel Prize of Literature is_.A. Alice WalkerB. Toni MorrisonC. Lorraine HansberryD. James Baldwin 13._studies the total stock of morphemes o

8、f a language, especially those items which have clear semantic references.A. PhonologyB. LexicologyC. MorphologyD. Lexicography 14.Daniel Defoe is a famousA. poetB. novelistC. playwrightD. essayist 15.The capital of Northern Ireland is_.A. EdinburghB. CardiffC. BelfastD. Birmingham 16.It is generall

9、y regarded that Keatss most important and mature poems are in the form of_.A. odeB. elegyC. epicD. sonnet 17._is the first weekday after Christmas, a legal holiday in the UK, Australia and New Zealand.A. Thanksgiving DayB. Boxing DayC. EasterD. Veterans Day 18.The worlds largest freshwater lake is L

10、akeA. SuperiorB. OntarioC. HuronD. Michigan 19. Question 9 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.Ato mediate between the two parties.Bto distinguish them as two countries.Cto invite Hamas leaders to Pa

11、ris.Dto legitimize terror in Palestine. 20. Question 10 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.Acautious predictions.Bimpartial judgment.Ccareful calculation.Dsimple statistics. 21. Question 6 is based

12、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.Athere was something wrong with the generator.Bthe pilots of the aircraft went on a strike.Cthere was no electrical power in the battery.Dhe didnt know how to generate elec

13、tricity. 22.In 1812, the United States fought the first war withA France.B Britain.C Spain.D Mexico. 23.Which of the following is a totally arbitrary oneA Typewriter.B Crack.C Newspaper.D Pig. 24.The head of government of United Kingdom isA the Prime Minister.B the Speaker of the House of Lords.C th

14、e Speaker of the House of Commons.D the Queen. 25._ is the second largest country in the world.A Canada.B U.S.A.C China.D Russia. 26._ is the first American black woman writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature.A Toni MorrisonB Saul BellowC Emily DickensonD Pearl S. Buck 27.It is _ who proposed

15、Language Acquisition Device (LAD).A SapirB LeechC SkinnerD Chomsky 28.George Orwells _ is considered as an anti-utopian novel.A Animal FarmB Nineteen Eighty-FourC Down and Out in ParisD The Road to Wigan War 29._ is the study of the internal structure of words, and the rules by which words are forme

16、d.A MorphologyB PhonologyC PhoneticsD Syntax 30._ is one of Shakespeares narrative poems.A The Winters TaleB Venus and AdonisC Romeo and JulietD The House of Fame 31.The Canterbury Tales was written by _.A. Alfred the GreatB. Thomas MalonyC. Geoffrey ChaucerD. Edmmund Spencer 32.Psycholinguistics in

17、vestigates the interrelation of language and _.A. a speech communityB. its diversityC. human mindD. human behavior 33.Functional Sentence Perspective was put forward by _.A. the London SchoolB. the Prague SchoolC. Boas and SapirD. Post-Bloomfieldian linguists 34.The words amaze and astound are _.A.

18、dialectal synonymsB. semantically different synonymsC. stylistic synonymsD. collocational synonyms 35.Which American president was at the same time period with Martin Luther King Jr.A. John KennedyB. Abraham LincolnC. George WashingtonD. Ronald Reagan 36.The Declaration of Independence came from the

19、 theory of British philosopher _.A. Paul RevereB. John LockeC. CornwallisD. Frederick Douglass 37.The first inhabitants in Britain were _.A. the NormansB. the CeltsC. the IberiansD. the Anglo-Saxons 38.Sydney is the capital city of _.A. New South WalesB. QueenslandC. South AustraliaD. Tasmania 39.Al

20、exander Pope was the representative writer of _.A. TranscendentalismB. RomanticismC. ModernismD. Neo-Classicism 40.Walt Whitman was a(n) _.A. playwrightB. essayistC. poetD. novelist 41.The author suggests that parents not impose their ambition on their children because _.Atoo much pressure might lea

21、d to unsatisfactory results.Btheir own ambition shouldnt be realized by their children.Ctheir children might practice job-hopping frequently.Dtheir children might not share similar interests with them. 42.As can be gathered from the passage, Kosovo_.Ais one of the six republicsBis part of SerbiaCis

22、autonomousDborders on Serbia 43.According to the passage the problems of college education partly arise from the fact that_.Asociety cannot provide enough jobs for properly trained college graduatesBhigh school graduates do not fit the pattern of college educationCtoo many students have to earn their own livingDcollege administrators encourage students to drop out