专八人文知识练习与测试
人文知识专八考试的重点，主要考察学生对于世界一些人文知识的掌握等，这要求学生的英语基础扎实，并且课外知识较为广泛。下面，小编为大家提供一些专八人文知识练习与测试，希望对大家有用。
一、人文知识练习
1.Which of the folowing is NOT a compoundword?
A. Landlady
B. Greenhouse
C. Uplift
D. Unacceptable
2.The word holiday originally meant holy day;but now the word signifies any day on whichwe don't have to work. This is an example of____
A. meanng shift
B. widening of meaning
C. narrowing of meaning
D. loss of meaning
3.The capital of Australia is ____
A. Sydney
B. Melbourne
C. Canberra
D. Perth
4.Which degree is offered in community colleges in the United States?
A. Master's degree
B. Docter's degree
C. Bachelor's degree
D. Associate's degree
5.George Bernard Shaw was a(n) ____
A. playwright
B. poet
C. novelist
D. essayist
6.John Galsworthy was most famous for ____
A. Heart of Darkness
B. Ulysses
C. The Forsyte Saga
D. A Passage to India
7.The novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was written by ____
A. Henry James
B. O. Henry
C. Harriet Beecher Stower
D. Mark Twain
8.The study of how sounds are put together and used to convey meaning incommunication is _______
A. morphology
B. general linguistics
C. phonology
D. semantics
9.Where is Edinburgh?
A. In wales
B. In Scotland
C. In Northern Ireland
D. In Ireland
10.Which of the following is Not a U.S. news and cable network?
A. ABC
B. CNN
C. CBS
D. BBC