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 and A．Charles Dickens. B．Charlotte Bronte. C．Walter Scott. D．George Bernard Shaw. 2.Which of the following is NOT a masterpiece of William. Faulkner A．Light in August. B．Absalom, Absalam. C．The Sound and the Fury. D．O, Pioneers. 第1页 共17页 3.The religious leader of the Church of England is A．Presbyterian. B．Anglican. C．Archbishop of Canterbury. D．Queen. 4.The meaning of language was considered as something ______ in traditional semantics. A．contextual B．natural C．intrinsic D．logical 5.English language belongs to A．Indo-European Family. B．Sino-Tibetan Family. C．Austronesian Family. D．Afroasiatic Family. 6.English is the language most commonly spoken throughout 第2页 共17页 Canada, EXCEPT FOR the province of______. A．Quebec B．Nova Scotia C．New Brunswick D．Alberta 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______. A．The Old Man and the Sea B．For Whom the Bell Tolls C．The Sun Also Rises D．A Farewell to Arms 8.The decade of 1980s is remembered in Britain as the era of______. A．centralization B．nationalization C．privatization D．industrialization 第3页 共17页 9.An American Dictionary of the English Language was published in 1828 by ______. A．Samuel Johnson B．Noah Webster C．Daniel Webster D．Daniel Defoe 10.In the U.S., the senatorial term is ______years. A．3 B．4 C．6 D．8 11.Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in ______. A．1937 B．1939 C．1941 D．1943 12.The capital of Scotland is ______. A．Belfast 第4页 共17页 B．Cardiff C．Edinburgh D．Dublin 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 ______. A．performance B．language acquisition C．cultural transmission D．competence 14.Morphemes that can occur \"unattached\" are called______ morphemes. A．inflectional B．bound C．free D．derivational 15.\"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day \" This is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare's ______. 第5页 共17页 A．songs B．plays C．comedies D．sonnets 16.Which one of the four American writers won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993 A．Saul Bellow. B．Joseph Brodsky. C．Toni Morrison. D．Isaac Basheris Singer. 17.When did English novelist William Golding receive his Nobel Prize in Literature A．1981. B．1982. C．1983. D．1984. 18.The national plant of New Zealand is the ______. A．Taraxacum 第6页 共17页 B．Chrysanthemum C．Honeysuckle D．Pohutukawa 19.______ are those rules which relate or transform the deep structure of a sentence into the surface structure. A．Transformational rules B．Paradigmatic relations C．National languages D．New stylistics 20.studies the mathematical features of language, often employing models and concepts of mathematics. A．Anthropological linguistics B．Applied linguistics C．Mathematical linguistics D．Computational linguistics 21.A linguistic study is ______ if it describes and analyses facts observed. A．descriptive 第7页 共17页 B．graphemic C．functional D．fricative 22.Which one of the four novels was written by Norman Mailer A．The heart of the matter. B．Cry, the Beloved Country. C．The Harp in the South. D．The Naked and the Dead. 23.______ is the largest city and one of the chief ports of the United States. A．Chicago B．New York City C．Detroit D．San Francisco 24.The first known settlers of Brain were the ______. A．Normans B．Vikings C．Germans 第8页 共17页 D．Iberians 25.Canada's parliament consists of______, the Senate and the House of Commons. A．the Queen B．the President C．the Prime minister D．the 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.{{/I}} A．Palestinian leader and Israeli Prime Minister B．Palestinian leader and Israeli Foreign Minister C．Palestinian leader and Israeli President D．Pakistani 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.{{/I}} A．a Baghdad shop 第9页 共17页 B．a Baghdad restaurant C．a Bangkok shop D．a Bangkok restaurant 28.______ is the basic unit of research in Morphology. A．morpheme B．phoneme C．lexeme D．phone 29.______ is not a derivational word. A．Black board B．Teachers C．Consideration D．Bookshop 30.______ was greatly influenced by Chinese and Japanese poetry. A．Ezra Pound B．Walt Whitman C．Robert Frost 第10页 共17页 D．Edgar Allan Poe 31.______ inside the sentence is the opposite to linear relations in syntax. A．Syntactic relations B．Paradigmatic relations C．Agreement D．Government 32.______ is the core of the English Government. A．the Sovereign B．the House of Lords C．the House of Commons D．the Cabinet 33.The young people in the post-WWI era are referred to as \"______\". A．the Boom Generation B．the Lost Generation C．the Yuppies D．the Cowboys 第11页 共17页 34.______ forced Nixon to resign in 1973. A．The Watergate Scandal B．The Iran-gate Scandal C．The Un-American Activities Committee D．The New Right 35.______ is written by Edmond Spencer. A．Tamburlaine B．King Lear C．Utopia D．The Faerie Queene 36.______ wrote The Adventures of Torn Sawyer. A．Harriet Beecher Stowe B．Mark Twain C．O Henry D．Henry James 37.Melbourne is located ______. A．in Canada 第12页 共17页 B．in New Zealand C．in Ireland D．in Australia 38.Where do the majority of people in Scotland live A．In the Highlands. B．In the Lowlands. C．In the Uplands. D．In the Northwest of Highlands 39.The majority of poem in Lyrical Ballads were written by ______. A．William Wordsworth B．John Keats C．S.T. Coleridge D．Percy Bysshe Shelley 40.Who was the first great prose stylist of American romanticism A．Washington Irving. B．James Fenimore Cooper. 第13页 共17页 C．William Cullen Bryant. D．Nathaniel Hawthorne. 41.Where is Lake Louise located A．In the northern part of Canada. B．On the Canadian-American border. C．On the east coast. D．In the Rockies. 42.The novel Oliver Twist was written by ______. A．Jane Austen B．John Keats C．Charles Dickens D．George Eliot 43.Harriet Beccher Stowe, the author of ______, had become the most famous literary woman in the world. A．The Adventures of Tom Sawyer B．The Sea Wolf C．Uncle Tom' s Gabin D．Song of Myself 第14页 共17页 44.How many terms can a president in the United States be elected to at most A．1. B．2. C．3. D．4. 45.Northern Ireland is well known in the United Kingdom mainly for its ______. A．political problems B．population C．land D．culture 46.Which of the following is a compound word A．Elevator. B．Formal. C．Evaluative. D．Flashlight. 第15页 共17页 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 ______. A．narrowing of meaning B．widening of meaning C．meaning shift D．loss of meaning 48.President Jefferson bought ______ from France and doubled the country's territory. A．New Mexico B．the Louisiana Territory C．Kansas D．Ohio 49.Semantics is the study of ______. A．words B．sentences C．context D．meaning 第16页 共17页 50.Which American university is with the longest history A．Yale B．Oxford C．Harvard D．Stanford 第17页 共17页
