2008年英语专业八级考试人文知识真题及答案PARTIIIGENERALKNOWLEDGE(10MIN)Therearetenmultiple-choicequestionsinthissection.Choosethebestanswertoeachquestion.Markyouranswersonyourcolouredanswersheet31.ThelargestcityinCanadais_______.A.Vancouver.B.Montreal.C.TorontoD.Ottawa.32.AccordingtotheUnitedStatesConstitution,thelegislativepowerisinvestedin________.A.theFederalGovernment.B.theSupremeCourt.C.theCabinet.D.theCongress.33.WhichofthefollowingistheoldestsportintheUnitedStates?A.Baseball.B.Tennis.C.Basketball.D.Americanfootball.34.TheheadoftheexecutivebranchinNewZealandis__________.A.thePresident.B.theGovernor-General.C.theBritishmonarchD.thePrimeMinister.35.TheCanterburyTales,acollectionofstoriestoldbyagroupofpilgrimsontheirwaytoCanterbury,isanimportantpoeticworkby__________.A.WilliamLangland.B.GeoffreyChaucer.C.WilliamShakespeare.D.AlfredTennyson.36.WhowroteTheAmerican?A.HermanMelville.B.NathanielHawthorne.C.HenryJames.D.TheodoreDreiser.37.Allofthefollowingarewell-knownfemalewritersin20th-centuryBritainEXCEPT_____.A.GeorgeEliot.B.IrisJeanMurdoch.C.DorisLessing.D.MurielSpark.38.WhichofthefollowingisNOTadesignfeatureofhumanlanguage?A.Arbitrariness.B.Displacement.C.Duality.D.Diachronicity.39.Whattypeofsentenceis“Marklikesfiction,butTimisinterestedinpoetry.”?A.Asimplesentence.B.Acoordinatesentence.C.Acomplexsentence.D.Noneoftheabove.40.Thephenomenonthatwordshavingdifferentmeaningshavethesameformiscalled______.A.hyponymy.B.synonymy.C.polysemy.D.homonymy.Key：31-35BCADB36-40CDACD