2011-04-25 所属栏目:人文知识

专八人文知识模拟试题(4)
1. The sentence “shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare’s_____.
　　A comedies
　　B tragedies
　　C sonnets
　　D histor

2011-04-24 所属栏目:人文知识

专八人文知识模拟试题 (3)1. “Ode to the west wind” was written by the author of ___.
　　A “I wandered lonely as a cloud”
　　B “Kubla Khan”
　　C “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage”
　　D “As

2011-04-23 所属栏目:人文知识

专八人文知识模拟试题(2)
1. _____is a fork legend brought to England by Anglo-Saxons from their continental homes, it is a long poem of over 3000 lines and the national epic of the English people.
　

2011-04-16 所属栏目:人文知识

专八人文知识模拟试题(1)1. ______ is the branch of linguistics which studies the characteristics of speech sounds and provides methods for their description, classification and transportation. A) Ph

2011-04-06 所属栏目:人文知识

专八人文知识精讲 英国国土概况一、Land and People一、英国的国土与人民Different Names for Britain and its Parts英国的不同名称及其各组成部分1.Geographical names: the British Isles, Great Britain and Engl

2011-01-30 所属栏目:人文知识

Southern LiteratureI. HeritageAmerican southern literature can date back to Edgar Allen Poe, and reach its summit with the appearance of the two “giants” – Faulkner and Wolfe. There are southern wo

2011-01-29 所属栏目:人文知识

Novels in the 1920sI. F. Scott Fitzgerald1. life – participant in 1920s2. works(1) This Side of Paradise
(2) Flappers and Philosophers
(3) The Beautiful and the Damned
(4) The Great Gatsby
(5) Te

2011-01-28 所属栏目:人文知识

Chapter 5 The Modern PeriodSection 1 The 1920sI. IntroductionThe 1920s is a flowering period of American literature. It is considered “the second renaissance” of American literature. The nicknames f

2011-01-27 所属栏目:人文知识

Chapter 4 American NaturalismI.Background1.Darwin's theory: "natural selection"
2.Spenser's idea: "social Darwinism"
3.French Naturalism: Zora
II.Features1.environment and heredity
2.scientific

2011-01-26 所属栏目:人文知识

Chapter 3 The Age of RealismI.Background: From Romanticism to Realism1.the three conflicts that reached breaking point in this period(1)industrialism vs. agrarian
(2)culturely-measured east vs. newly

2011-01-26 所属栏目:人文知识

练习题：1 Which of the following is the British oldest daily newspaper?A The Telegraph
B The Guardian
C The News of the World
D The Times2 The river Thames is in _____.A Wales
B Scotland
C Englan

2011-01-25 所属栏目:人文知识

Section 3 Late RomanticismI. Nathaniel Hawthorne1. life2. works(1) Two collections of short stories: Twice-told Tales, Mosses from and Old Manse(2) The Scarlet Letter(3) The House of the Seven Gabl

2011-01-25 所属栏目:人文知识

练习题1 What country is known as the Land of Maple Leaf？A United States of America
B United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
C New Zealand
D Canada2 The national anthem of Canada is _

2011-01-24 所属栏目:人文知识

Section 2 Summit of Romanticism – American TranscendentalismI. Background: four sources1. Unitarianism(1) Fatherhood of God(2) Brotherhood of men(3) Leadership of Jesus(4) Salvation by character (per

2011-01-24 所属栏目:人文知识

英国内战（1642-1646）1.On August 22, 1642, the First Civil War began. The king’s men were called Cavaliers, and the supporters of Parliament were called Roundheads.1642.8.22，第一次内战爆发，支持国王

2011-01-23 所属栏目:人文知识

练习题： 1 Which poem is not written by Freneau?A The British Prison Ship
B The Wild Honey Suckle
C The Indian Burying Ground
D The Flood of Years2 Thomas Jefferson’s attitude ,that is , a firm be

2011-01-22 所属栏目:人文知识

Chapter 2 American RomanticismSection 1 Early Romantic PeriodWhat is Romanticism?l An approach from ancient Greek: Platol A literary trend: 18c in Britain (1798~1832)l Schlegel Bros.I. Preview: Charac

2011-01-22 所属栏目:人文知识

练习题： 1 How many members are there in the House of Commons?A 650
B 524
C 72
D 6512 Which of the following people didn’t use to be the British Prime Minister?A Margaret Thatcher
B Winston Churc

2011-01-21 所属栏目:人文知识

练习题： 1 As a philosophical and literary moment, _____ flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War.A modernism
B rationalism
C sentimentalism
D transcendentalism2 Poe’s first colle

2011-01-20 所属栏目:人文知识

练习题： 1."Gold Rush" was vividly depicted in ____ novels.A Hemingway’s B Mark Twain’s C Henry Jame’s D Faulkner’s2.The period of Old English literatue refers to ____A 449-1066B 14thcentury - mid

2011-01-20 所属栏目:人文知识

Chapter 1 Colonial PeriodI. Background: Puritanism1. features of Puritanism(1) Predestination: God decided everything before things occurred.(2) Original sin: Human beings were born to be evil, and th

2011-01-19 所属栏目:人文知识

练习题： 1.The national epic of the Anglo-Saxons is ____.A Robin Hood
B Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
C The Canterbury Tales
D Beowulf2. ____was the most outstanding single romance on the Arthuri

2011-01-18 所属栏目:人文知识

美国人口构成 1. The population of the United States is a bit more than 272 million, about 13% of which are Black, 12 % are Hispanic(讲西班牙语的人)，4% are Asian and the rest are White Americans. 2. I

2011-01-16 所属栏目:人文知识

1. St. Lawrence and River Columbia are shared by both ____A America and Mexico
B America and Canada
C America and Cuba
D America and Brazil2. European settlement of Australia began in the late part

2010-10-13 所属栏目:人文知识

黑死病黑死病（the Black Death）是指由鼠疫蚤传播的致命的淋巴腺鼠疫是流，行疾病，在14世纪传播了到欧洲。1348年夏天横扫全英国。英国的人口在14世纪末从400万锐减至200万。黑死病对经济造成的后果相当深远。鼠疫导