2009年英语专业八级考试试题（人文&改错） 英语, 试题, 人文, amp, 考试

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PART III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (10 MIN)

There are ten multiple-choice questions in this section. Choose the best answer to each question.
Mark your answers on your coloured answer sheet.

31. The Head of State of New Zealand is
A. the governor-general.
B. the Prime Minister.
C. the high commissioner.
D. the monarch of the United Kingdom.

32. The capital of Scotland is
A. Glasgow.
B. Edinburgh.
C. Manchester.
D. London.

33. Who wrote the Declaration of Independence and later became the U.S. President?
A. Thomas Jefferson.
B. George Washington.
C. Thomas Paine.
D. John Adams.

34. Which of the following cities is located on the eastern coast of Australia?
A. Perth.
B. Adelaide.
C. Sydney.
D. Melbourne.

35. Ode to the West Windwas written by
A. William Blake.
B. William Wordsworth.
C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
D. Percy B. Shelley.

36. Who among the following is a poet of free verse?
A. Ralph Waldo Emerson.
B. Walt Whitman.
C. Herman Melville
D. Theodore Dreiser.

37. The novel Sons and Lovers was written by
A. Thomas Hardy.
B. JohnGalsworthy.
C. D.H. Lawrence.
D. James Joyce.

38. The study of the mental processes of language comprehension and production is
A. corpus linguistics.
B. sociolinguistics.
C. theoretical linguistics.
D. psycholinguistics.

39. A special language variety that mixes languages and is used by speakers of different languages for purposes of trading is called
A. dialect.
B. idiolect.
C. pidgin.
D. register.

40. When a speaker expresses his intention of speaking, such as asking someone to open the
window, he is performing
A. an illocutionary act.
B. a perlocutionary act.
C. a locutionary act.
D. none of the above.

PART IV PROOFREADING & ERROR CORRECTION (15 MIN)

Proofread the given passage on ANSWER SHEET TWO as instructed.
When ∧ art museum wants a new exhibit, (1)_______
it never buys things in finished form and hangs (2)_______
them on the wall. When a natural history museum
wants an exhibition, it must often build i. (3)_______
The previous section has shown how quickly a rhyme passes
from one schoolchild to the next and illustrates the further difference ____1____
between school lore and nursery lore. In nursery lore a verse, learnt
in early childhood, is not usually passed on again when the little listener ____2____
has grown up, and has children of their own, or even grandchildren. ____3_____
The period between learning a nursery rhyme and transmitting
it may be something from 20 to 70 years. With the playground ____4____
lore, therefore, a rhyme may be excitedly passed on within the very hour ____5____
it is learnt; and, in the general, it passes between children of the ____6____
same age, or nearly so, since it is uncommon for the differnce in age
between playmates to be more than five years. If, therefore, a playground
rhyme can be shown to have been currently for a hundred years, or ____7____
even just for fifty, it follows that it has been retransmitted over
and over, very possibly it has passed along a chain of two or three ____8____
hundred young hearers and tellers, and the wonder is that it remains live ____9____
after so much handling, to let alone that it bears resemblance to the ____10____
original wording.