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全国2011年7月自学考试英语国家概况试题
课程代码:00522
I. Multiple Choice Questions. (50 points, 1
point for each)
Directions: In this part of
the test, there are 50 unfinished statements or
questions. For each
of the unfinished
statements or questions, four suggested answers
marked A, B, C and D are
given. Choose the one
that you think best completes the statement or
answers the question.
Write the letter of the
answer you have chosen in the corresponding space
on your Answer
Sheet.
1. Which of the
following statement is NOT true?
A. Great
Britain and England are geographical names.
B.
The British Isles are made up of three large
islands and hundreds of small ones.
C. At
present there are 50 member countries within the
Commonwealth (1991).
D. Wales is in the west
of Great Britain.
2. ____ built the Hadrian’s
Wall and the Antonine Wall to keep ____ out of the
area they had conquered.
A. The Romans; the
Picts
C. The Anglo-Saxons; the
Romans
B. The Beaker Folk; the Picts
D.
The Danes; the Anglo-Saxons
3. Who were the
ancestors of the English and the founders of
England?
Anglo-Saxons
Vikings
B. The Normans
D. The Romans
4. The spirit of ____ was
the limitation of the powers of the king, keeping
them within the bounds of the feudal law of the
land.
A. the Provision of Oxford
C. Domesday Book
B. the
Constitutions of Clarendon
D. Magna Carta
5. When Mary Tudor became Queen, at least 300
____ were burnt as heretics.
A. Protestants
C. Puritans
B.
Catholics
D. Muslims
6. The chief demand
of the peasants during the Peasant Uprising of
1381 was ____.
A. the abolition of villeinage
B. the punishment of the King’s ministers
C. the increase of wages
D. the reform of
the church
7. The significance of the Wars of
the Roses was all the following EXCEPT that ____.
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A. feudalism received its
death blow
B. the great medieval nobility was
much weakened
C. the king’s power now became
supreme
D. it dealt a death blow to villeinage
8. ____ is one of the comedies of Shakespeare.
A. Othello
C. The
Tempest
B. Richard III
D. Julius Caesar
9. In the Glorious
Revolution the Catholic king, ____ was driven out
of England.
A. James I
C. Charles I
B.
James II
D. Charles II
10. ____, excluding
any Roman Catholic from the succession, confirmed
the principle of parliamentary supremacy and
guaranteed free speech within both the House
of Lords and the House of Commons.
A. The Bill
of Rights
C. The Test Act
B. The Disabling Act
D. Instrument of
Government
11. As a result of the Industrial
Revolution, Britain became the ____.
A. “shop
of the world”
C. “centre of the
world”
B. “workshop of the world”
D. “leader of the world”
12. Which of the
following is NOT considered a characteristic of
farming in the late 18th and the early 19th
centuries?
A. Cultivation of fodder crops
B. Invention of seed drill
C. Selective
breeding of domestic animals
D. “Open-field”
system
13. In Britain, ____ abolished “rotten
boroughs”.
A. the People’s Charter
C. the New Power Law
B. the
Combination Acts
D. the Reform Act of 1832
14. The present British monarch, Queen
Elizabeth II was crowned in ____.
A. 1926
C. 1952
B. 1947
D. 1953
15. ____ has the ultimate
authority for law-making in Britain.
A. The
Monarch
C. The Prime
Minister
B. The Parliament
D. The Cabinet
16. In the House of
Commons, all speeches are addressed to ____ who is
elected at the beginning of each new Parliament to
preside over the House and enforce the rules
of order.
A. the Prime Minister
B. the Monarch
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C. the
Speaker D. the Lord Chancellor
17. About ____ daily and Sunday newspapers are
published nationwide in Britain.
A. 100
C. 120
B. 110
D. 130
18. In Britain, ____ is directly
responsible for the NHS.
A. a local government
C. a voluntary organization
B.
the central government
D. a certain society
19. The day following Christmas Day is known
as ___, for on this day gifts are given to
servants and tradesmen.
A. New Year’s Day
C. Labor Day
B.
Easter Day
D. Boxing Day
20. Of the
following four sports, ____ has the longest
history in Britain.
A. cricket
C. football
B. golf
D. rugby
21. The three states that have
seen the fastest growth in population in the past
20 years are ____.
A. California, Arizona and
New Mexico
B. California, Florida and Nevada
C. New York, Texas and Florida
D. Arizona,
Nevada and Florida
22. In American history,
____ refer to those who came to Plymouth on board
of Mayflower.
A. the English nobles
C. the Pilgrims
B. the
Puritans
D. the English adventurers
23.
After President Jefferson bought the ____
Territory from France, the territory owned by the
United States almost
doubled.
A. Arizona
C. Louisiana
B.
Texas
D. California
24. President Abraham
Lincoln issued the ____, because he realized that
he could win support for the Union at home and
abroad by making the war a just war against
slavery.
A. Bill of Rights
C. Declaration of Independence
B.
Emancipation of Proclamation
D. Civil Right
Act
25. The features of the early colonists
which have strong influence on the formation of
American character are all the
following
EXCEPT ____.
A. religious intolerance
B.
respect of individual rights
C. representative
form of government
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D. a
strong spirit of individual enterprise
26.
Rushed by the Progressive Movement, ____ put
forward his program of New Freedom.
A. Woodrow
Wilson
C. Franklin elt
B. Theodore Roosevelt
D. George Washington
27. The Paris Conference which began on Jan
18, 1919 was dominated by the Big Four including
____.
A. the United States, the Soviet Union,
China and Britain
B. the United States,
Britain, France, and Italy
C. the United
States, Britain, Germany, and Japan
D. the
United States, Britain, France, and the Soviet
Union
28. In his inaugural speech, ____ said
that “the only thing we have to fear is fear
itself.”
A. Abraham Lincoln
C. Franklin elt
B. Theodore
Roosevelt
D. George Washington
29. As a
result of American economic aid under the Marshall
Plan, ____ recovered and began to show signs of
development.
A. Turkey
C. Western Europe
B.
Greece
D. Eastern Europe
30. During the
Cuban Missile Crisis, the two superpowers stared
at each other, with the possibility of ____
looming large.
A. a nuclear war
C. the Vietnam War
B. a
chemical war
D. the Korean War
31. ____
visit to China ended twenty-three years of
hostility and led to the establishment of
diplomatic relations in January
____.
A.
President Nixon’s; 1972
C. President
Nixon’s; 1979
B. Jimmy Carter’s;
1978
D. George Bush’s; 1989
32. After long
and difficult negotiations in Paris, the U. S. and
____ signed a cease-fire agreement on January 27,
1973.
A. South Vietnam
C.
the Soviet Union
B. North
Vietnam
D. Korea
33. Which of the
following is NOT true of U.S. foreign trade?
A. Canada is the largest single source of
goods imported by the United States.
B.
Outside of North America, Asia is the largest
source of imports.
C. The U.S. share of world
trade has decreased in recent years.
D.
Whenever the American economy is in trouble, the
economy of other countries is affected.
34.
When the delegates met at Philadelphia in 1787,
their task was ____.
A. to write a new
constitution
B. to adopt the Articles of
Confederation
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C. to
establish a new form of government
D. to
revise the Articles of Confederation
35.
Abraham Lincoln was elected President as the
candidate of ____ in 1860.
A. the Democratic
Party
C. the Whig Party
B. the Republican Party
D. the
Conservative Party
36. According to the U.S.
Constitution, education is mainly a function of
____.
A. the federal government
C. the county government
B. the
city government
D. the state government
37. Which of the following is NOT true about
the reasons for the rapid growth of community
colleges?
A. Their open admission policies
C. Their fixed curriculum structures
B.
Their cheap tuition and fees
D. Their
convenient locations
38. The Waste Land,
written by ____, is considered the manifesto of
the “Lost Generation”.
A. T. S. Eliot
C. Emily Dickinson
B. Walt
Whitman
D. Theodore Dreiser
39. In the
1920s, Black literature developed into an upsurge,
which has come to be known as ____.
A. the
Literature Renaissance
B. the Harlem
Renaissance
C. the Literature Revival
D.
the “knickerbockers era” of American literature
40. Easter Sunday is the most important
religious holiday for commemorating ____.
A.
the death of Jesus Christ
C. the
crucifixion of Jesus Christ
B. the birth
of Jesus Christ
D. the resurrection of Jesus
Christ
41. The Republic of Ireland is bounded
by all the following EXCEPT ____.
A. the
English Channel
C. St. George
Channel
B. the Irish Sea
D.
the Atlantic Ocean
42. Ireland is one of the
most ____ countries of Europe.
A. Protestant
C. Puritan
B.
Catholic
D. Christian
43. In Canada,
nearly ____ of the land has no permanent
population.
A. 87%
C. 89%
B. 88%
D. 90%
44. Who founded the
first permanent settlements at Quebec and Montreal
on the St. Lawrence River?
A. John Cabot
C. Samuel de Champlain
B.
Jacques Cartier
D. Henry Hudson
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45. All services provided by the
Canadian federal government are available in ____.
A. French and Spanish
C.
Spanish and English
B. English
and Italian
D. French and English
46.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
constitute ____ of Australia’s population.
A.
1%
C. 2%
B. 1.5%
D. 2.5%
47. Why has Australia
always been a continent with few people?
A.
Because Australia is too far away from Europe.
B. Because Australia is the least mountainous
and most level of the world’s continents.
C.
Because Australia is separated from the rest of
the world by seas.
D. Because most of the
continent is hot and dry.
48. As far as
Australian culture is concerned, the history of
Australia can be divided into the following phases
EXCEPT
____.
A. the period of Australia’s
original culture
B. the period of the dominant
British culture
C. the period of Asian culture
D. the period of a multicultural society
49. In New Zealand, the highest peak is in the
centre of the mountain range, which is called
____.
A. the Southern Alps
C. the New Zealand Alps
50.
____ is described as a “living fossil”.
A. Moa
C. Tuatara
B. Kiwi
D. Bellbird
B. the Northern Alps
D.
the South Island Alps
II. Answer the
Questions. (30 points, 3 points for each)
Directions: Give a one-sentence answer to each
of the following questions. Write your answers in
the corresponding
space on the Answer Sheet.
51. How many political divisions are there in
Britain? What are they?
52. What questions did
Elizabeth I treat as personal and private?
53.
What were the two events in the world which most
alarmed the British ruling classes in the closing
decades of the 18th
century?
54. Which are
the five biggest cities in terms of population in
the United States?
55. What are the three
branches of the American government?
56. What
does Mark Twain want to put across in The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?
57. When was
the name of the country officially changed to
Ireland?
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58. Who are easy
to immigrate to Canada now?
59. In terms of
land area and population, which is the biggest
state and which is the smallest state in
Australia?
60. What are the two active
volcanoes in New Zealand?
III. Term
Explanation. (20 points, 5 points for each)
Directions: Explain each of the following
terms in English. Write your answers in the
corresponding space on the
Answer Sheet in
around 40 words.
61. the Chartist Movement
62. Constitutional Monarchy
63. the Bill
of Rights of America
64. the Federal System of
America
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