本文是由外语专业教学与测试研究中心根据新版考试-大纲和05年真题而出的人文知识模拟试题。 Which one of the four is NOT correct? A) English-speaking countries are UK, USA, Canada, Barbados, etc. B) English-speaking countries are UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, etc. C) English-speaking countries are USA, Canada, Australia, the Republic of Ireland, etc. D) English-speaking countries USA, Canada, Australia, Egypt, etc. The famous short story The Fall of the House of Usher was written by A) Charles Dickens B) Edgar Allen Poe C) John Richardson (Canadian novelist) D) Henry Savery Which one of the following Ivy League Schools is situated in Connecticut? A) Yale University. B) Harvard. C) Princeton. D) Columbia. The branch of linguistics which studies the forms of words is __ MORPHOLOGY.. A) phoneme B) morpheme C) semantics D) morphology Who wrote a highly-acclaimed Novel Moby Dick? A) William James. B) Herman Melville. C) Ernest Hemingway. D) Cooper. What is the name of the Lake in northern Utah of the U.S.A.? A) Lake Michigan. B) Lake Superior. C) Lake Erie. D) the Great Salt Lake. Who wrote Pygmalion which later was transformed into the highly popular New York Broadway musical My Fair Lady in 1956? A) Edgar Allen Poe. B) Charles Lamb. C) George Bernard Shaw. D) Alfred Tennyson. Among the four pillars of English literature, who was NOT born and raised in Ireland? A) Jonathan Swift. B) W filiam Buffer Yeats. C) James Joyce. D) Robert Browning. Alaska lies in the of North America, stretching southward from the Arctic Ocean to the Pacific. A) northwestern part B) southwestern part C) northeastern part D) southeastern part Who is a satirist and the first writer in America to win the Nobel Prize in literature. A) Eugene O Neill B) Sinclair Lewis C) TS. Eliot D) W dliam Fanlkner