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英美概况英国部分练习题
I.
Multiple Choices: Choose one right answer from the
four choices:
1. The
highest mountain in Britain is ____.
A.
Scafell B. Ben Nevis
C.
the Cotswolds
C. the Severn
D. the Forth
D. the Thames
2.
The longest river in Britain is _____.
A. the Clyde B. the Mersey
3. The largest
lake in Britain is _____.
A. the Lough Neage B. Windermere Water
C. Coniston Water D. the
Lake District
4. Which part
of Britain is always fighting?
A. England
B. Scotland
C.
Wales
D. Northem
Ireland
5. The immigrants
coming to Britain are mainly from _____.
A.
Europe B.
the
United
States
C.
Africa
D.
the
West
Indies,
Indies
and
Pakistan
6.
The first inhabitants in Britain were _____.
A. the Normans
B. the Celts
C.
the Iberians
D. the
Anglo-Saxons
7. British
Recorded history began with _____.
A. Roman invasion
B. the Norman Conquest
C.
the Viking and Danish invasion
D. the Anglo-Saxons invasion
8. In 829, _____ actually became the
overlord of all the English.
A. John
A. 1056
B. James I
C. Egbert
B. 1066
B. Tudor
C.
1006
C.
Malcolm
D. Henry I
9. Christmas Day ____, Duke William was
crowned in Westminster Abbey.
D. 1060
D.
Plantagenet
10. Henry II
was the first king of the _____ dynasty.
A. Windsor
parliament.
A. Henry III
Montfort
12. The
Hundred Years’ war stated in ____ and ended in
____, in which the English
had lost all
the territories of France except the French port
of ____.
A.
1337, 1453, Flanders
B. 1337, 1453, Calais
D. 1346, 1453, Brest
C. 1346,
1453, Argencourt
_____.
B. the Pope
C. Barons
D.
Simon
de
11. In 1265 ____ summoned
the Great Council, which has been seen as the
earliest
13. The Wars of Roses lasted
for _____ years and king _____ was replaced by
king
A. 30, Richard III,
Henry Tudor
B.
50, Richard III, Henry Tudor
C. 30, Richard I, Henry
Tudor
D. 50,
Richard I, Henry Tudor
14.
The Renaissance began in ____ in the early ____
century.
A.
England, 14
B. England,
15
C. Italy, 14
D. Italy, 15
15. The English Civil War is also
called _____.
A. the Glorious Revolution
C. the Catholic
Revolution
first settlers in the New Land.
A. 1620,
London
C. 1720, London
the invention of machines.
A. the Industrial
Revolution
B. the Bourgeois Revolution
C. the Wars
of the Roses
D. the Religious Reformation
18. English colonial
expansion began with the colonization of _____ in
1583.
A.
Canada
American:
A. Edward
VIII
Community.
A. 1957
B.
1967
C. 1973
D.
1979
21.
Soon
after
_____,
Britain
not
only
gave
up
its
econmic
hegemony
but
also
suffered
a deep loss of its position of industrial
leadership.
A. 1900
B. World War I
C. World War II
D. 1960
22. In the 1970s among the
developed countries, Britain maintained the lowest
_____
rate and the highest _____ rate.
A. inflation,
growth
B. growth, inflation
C. growth,
divorce
D. growth, birth
23. The following are all reasons of
British decline of coal industry except _____.
A. the
exhaustion of old mines
B. costly extraction
C. little
money being invested
D. the labour shortage
24. Br
itain’s foreign trade
is mainly with _____.
B.
Edward VII
C.
George VI
D. George VII
20.
In
January
_____
Britain
became
a
member
of
the
European
Economic
B.
Australia
C.
India
D. Newfoundland
19.
_____
was famous
for
his
abdication
because
of
his
marriage
with
a
divorced
B. 1620, Plymouth
D. 1720, Plymouth
B. the Bloody Revolution
D. the Puritan Revolution
16. In _____, a small group
of Puritans sailed from _____ in the Mayflower to
be the
17. In the 18th century, there
appeared ____ in England, which owed a great deal
to
A. developing
countries B. other
Commonwealth countries
C. other developed countries
D. EC
25. The
House of Lords is presided over by _____.
A. the Lord
Chancellor
B. the Queen
C. the Archbishop of
Canterbury
D. the Prime Minister
26. A General Election is held every
_____ years and there are _____ members of
Parliaments are elected.
A. five, 600
B. five, 650
C. five, 659
D. four, 659
27. The Prime
Minister is appointed by _____ and he or she
always sits in _____.
A.
the Archbishop of Canterbury, the House of Commons
B.
the
Archbishop of Canterbury, the House of Lords
C. the Queen, the House of
Commons
D. the Queen, the
House of Lords
28. The
ultimate authority for law-making resides in
_____.
A. the Queen
B. the Cabinet
C. the House
of Lords D. the House of Commons
29. The sources of British law include
_____.
A. statutes, common
law, equity law and European Community law
B. statutes, common law
and equity law
C. statutes,
common law and European Community law
D. a complete code and statutes
30. In criminal trials by
jury, _____ passes sentenced and _____ decide the
issue of
guilt or innocence.
A. the judge, the jury
jury
31. ____ tries the most serious
offences such as murder and robbery.
A. Magistrates’
courts
C. district
courts
first on _____.
A. 1948, Acts of
Parliament
C. 1948, the Bill of Rights
B.
1958, Acts of Parliament
D.
1958, the Bill of Rights
B.
Youth courts
D. The Crown
Court
B. the
judge, the judge
D.
the
Lord
Chancellor,
the
C. the jury, the jury
32. The National Health
Service was established in the UK in _____ and
based at
33.
About
90
per
cent
of
the
state
secondary
school
population
in
the
UK
attend