2023年英语专业八级考试真题卷（4）.docx

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1、2023年英语专业八级考试真题卷（4）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） 1.32. In the passage the writers tone isAcritical.BapatheticCsympatheticDneutral. 2.The writer advises that the problems between Iran and the USA might be best dealt within the UN by getting the support ofAA

2、mericas NATO allies in the West.BIslamic Third World countries.CRussiaDBritain. 3.The purpose of the passage is toAdescribe the mining of goldBdescribe mans pursuit of gold.Cdetermine the importance of goldDdiscuss the role of gold. 4.According to the passage, London recorded its coldest day in_year

3、s when the temperature dropped to 90.A40B41C42D43 5.How many people died in Poland because of the weather in the first half of JanuaryA77B29C48D27 6.Which person won the Lenin Peace PrizeAMcGuigan.BMach.CMachado.DMachel. 7.Which person carried out research in the Amazon regionAMcGuigan.BMach.CMachad

4、o.DMachel 8.Who among the following is a biographerATapie.BE1-Shinnawy.CHaslipDNazir-Ali. 9.Who among the following owns a soccer teamATapie.BHelu.CHaslip.DNazir-Ali. 10._is the state church in England.AThe Roman Catholic ChurchBThe Baptist ChurchCThe Protestant ChurchDThe Church of England 11.Synta

5、x is the study of_.Alanguage functions.Bsentence structures.Ctextual organization.Dword formation. 12.The words kid, child, offspring are examples of_.Adialectal synonyms.Bstylistic synonyms.Cemotive synonyms.Dcollocational synonyms. 13.The distinctive features of a speech variety may be all the fol

6、lowing EXCEPT_.Alexical.Bsyntactic.Cphonological.Dpsycholinguistic. 14.The speech act theory was first put forward by_.AJohn Searle.BJohn Austin.CNoam Chomsky.DM. A. K. Halliday. 15.The Head of State of Canada is represented by_.Athe Monarch.Bthe President.Cthe Prime Minister.Dthe Governor-general.

7、16.Which of the following is NOT a romantic poetAWilliam Wordsworth.BGeorge Elliot.CGeorge G. Byron.DPercy B. Shelley. 17.The majority of the current population in the UK are decedents of all the following tribes respectively EXCEPT_.Athe Anglos.Bthe Celts.Cthe Jutes.Dthe Saxons. 18.The novel For Wh

8、om the Bell Tolls is written by_.AScott Fitzgerald.BWilliam Faulkner.CEugene ONeill.DErnest Hemingway. 19.Which of the following is NOT a type of institution in U.S.ATwo-year college.BThree-year college.CFour-year college.DUniversity. 20.Which of the following is NOT a free morphemeABed.BTree.CDance

9、.DChildren. 21.The capital of New Zealand is _.AAucklandBCanberraCMelbourneDWellington 22.In the notion of meaning inclusion, violet is flowers _.AhyponymBsuperordinateCpolysemyDhomonymy 23.The study of the rules governing the ways words are combined to form sentences is _.AmorphologyBphonologyCsynt

10、axDsemantics 24._ was called the father of English poetry.AGeoffery ChaucerBWilliam ShakespeareCJohn MiltonDJohn Donne 25.The Thanksgiving Day is on _.AFeb.14aBOct. 31tCthe last Thursday in Nov.Dthe first Sunday in May 26.Which of the following is NOT a part of Great BritainAEngland.BScotland.CIrela

11、nd.DWales. 27._refers to the abstract lingusitic system shared by all the members of a speech community.AParoleBLangueCCompetenceDPerformance 28.Which does NOT belong to the judicial systems provided by the American Federal GovernmentAThe Supreme Court.BMagistrates Court.CThe Courts of Appeals.DThe

12、District Court. 29.Where is CardiffAIn England.BIn Scotland.CIn Wales.DIll Northern Ireland. 30.W. H. Auden was a_.AplaywrightBcriticCpoetDnovelist 31.Which is the most important crop in AmericaACorn.BRice.CBarley.DOat. 32.The description of a language as it changes through time is a_ study.Aprescri

13、ptiveBdescriptiveCsynchronicDdiachronic 33.Nature was written by_.AHenry David ThoreauBRalph Waldo EmersonCEdgar Allan PoeDNathaniel Hawthorne 34.The meaning of an utterance is_.Aabstract and decontexualizedBconcrete and decontexualizedCabstract and context-dependentDconcrete and context-dependent 3

14、5.The short story The Murder in the Rue Morgue was written by_.AEdgar Allan PoeBConan DoyleCSherlock HolmesDMark Twain 36.George W. Bush was re-elected President of the United States as candidate of_.Athe Democratic PartyBthe Republic PartyCthe Labor PartyDthe Conservative Party 37.Which historical

15、event is related with Shakespeares historical plays, Henry and Richard AThe Wars of the Roses.BThe Hundred Years War.CThe Black Death.DThe peasant Uprising. 38.Which has NO direct relationship with the first settlement in AmericaAMayflower.BSeparatists.CPuritans.DConformists. 39.The aboriginal peopl

16、e in New Zealand are called_.ACelticsBIndiansCNew ZealandersDMaoris 40.George Eliot was famous for her_.AJane EyreBWuthering HeightsCThe WavesDMiddlemarch 41._refers to the phenomenon that words having different meanings have the same form.ASynonymyBPolysemyCHyponymyDHomonymy 42.Which is the most im

17、portant airport in BritainALuton.BHeathrow.CGatwick.DLondon Airport. 43.Gradability is shown in the following pairs of words EXCEPT_.Ahot/coldByoung/oldCdark/brightDalive/dead 44.Which of the following is Nathaniel Hawthornes most noteworthy novel in the worldAGone with the Wind.BFor Whom, the Bell

18、Tolls.CAmerican Tragedy.DThe Scarlet Letter. 45.James Joyce was a famous_ whose masterpiece Ulysses has been highly eulogized in the Western literary world as one of the greatest works in the 20(上标)th century.AessayistBnovelistCpoetDplaywright 46.Words like Xerox and Kodak are formed by_.Aback-forma

19、tionBblendingCcoinageDacronym 47.The community college is a kind of _colleges popular in _to satisfy the needs of both the individual and the society.Afive-year;U.K.Bfour-year;U.K.Cthree-year;U.S.Dtwo-year;U.S. 48.Which of the following is NOT a U.K. newspaperAThe Guardian.BChristian Science Monitor

20、.CThe Daily Telegraph.DThe Times. 49.Which of the following is NOT an approach for English language to enrich its vocabulary in the past several centuriesABorrowing.BUpgradation.CNarrowing.DWidening. 50.Who was the US President during World War ADwight D. EisenhowerBJohn F. KennedyCFranklin D. Roosevelt.DTheodore Roosevelt