07专八参考答案（人文部分）

人文题

31. the majority of the current population in the uk are decedents of all the following tribes respectively except
a. the anglos
b. the celts
c. the jutes √
d. the saxons
32. the head of state of canada is represented by
a. the monarch
b. the president
c. the prime minister
d. the governor-general √
33. the declaration of independence was written by
a. thomas jefferson √
b. george washington
c. alexander hamilton
d. james madison
34. the original inhabitants of australia were
a. the red indians
b. the eskimos
c. the aborigines √
d. the maoris
35. which of the following novels was written by emily bronte?
a. oliver twist
b. middlemarch
c. jane eyre
d. wuthering heights √
36. william butler yeats was a(n) ______ poet and playwright.
a. american
b. canadian
c. irish √
d. australian
37. death of a salesman was written by
a. arthur miller √
b. ernest hemingway
c. ralph ellison
d. james baldwin
38. _______ refers to the study of the internal structure of words and the rules of word formation.
a. phonology
b. morphology √
c. semantics
d. sociolinguistics
39. the distinctive features of a speech variety may be all the following except
a. lexical
b. syntactic
c. phonological
d. psycholinguistic √
40. the word tail once referred to “the tail of a horse”, but now it is used to mean “the tail of any animal.” this is an example of
a. widening of meaning √
b. narrowing of meaning
c. meaning shift
d. loss of meaning