2010年4月英语国家概况自考试题

全国2010年4月自考
英语国家概况试题
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I. Read the following unfinished statements or questions carefully. For each unfinished statement or question，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 the answer sheet.(50 points，1 point for each)
1.___________of 1066 is perhaps the best-known event in English history, in which William，
 the Conqueror confiscated almost all the land and gave it to his followers.
A. The Roman Conquest  B. The Anglo-Saxon Conquest
C. The Norman Conquest  D. The Celt Conquest
2.As a result of the Black Death，___________.
A. all land was left untended  B. no labor was required any longer
C. 1and owners tended to change from arable to sheep-farming
D. surviving peasants were not able to bargain about their wages
3.Which of the following statements about Elizabeth I(1 55 8-1 603)is true?
A. Elizabeth was 35 when she came to the throne.
B. Elizabeth remained single.
C. Elizabeth was not able to work with Parliament.
D. Her reign was a time of diminishing English nationalism.
4. ___________ was not in the“Allies” in the First World War.
A. Britain  B. France
C. Russia  D. Turkey
5.The English Civil War is also called ___________ .
A. the Revolutionary War  B. the Puritan Revolution
C. the Reformation  D. the Renaissance
6.The United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy. The head of State is a king or a queen .In practice，___________.
A. Parliament rules the country
B. the Sovereign reigns but does not rule
C. the Sovereign rules but does not reign
D. the Prime Minister rules and reigns
7.In January,1973，Britain finally became a full member of the___________，which was established by the Treaty of Rome in 1957.
A. Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development
B. Organization of European Development
C. European Economic Community
D. European Union
8.The___________refers to the mechanization of industry and the consequent changes in social economic organization in Britain in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
A. Urbanization  B. Economic Boom
C. Glorious Revolution  D. Industrial Revolution
9.The major Christian festivals in Britain are___________ .
A. Christmas, Easter and Mother’s Day
B. Christmas, Easter and Whit Sunday
C. Christmas，Guy Fawkes Day and St. Patrick’s Day
D. Christmas，Whit Sunday and St. George’s Day
10.The Commonwealth of Nations is a free association of independent countries that were once colonies of Britain. At present there are ___________ countries within the Commonwealth (1991).
A. 30  B. 40
C. 50  D. 60
11.Among the three tribes of the Celts coming to Britain, the most industrious and vigorous of the Celtic tribes was the ___________ .
A. Gaels  B. Brythons
C. Belgae  D. Vikings
12.Political change in England came mainly through___________.
A. gradual reform  B. revolution
C. people’s uprisings  D. working class movement
13.The two parties that have held power in Britain since 1945 are ___________ .
A. the Democratic Party and the Republican Party
B. the Conservative Party and the Labor Party
C. the Labor Party and the Social Democratic Party
D. the Labor Party and the Democratic Party
14.___________’s reign was a time of confident English nationalism and of great achievements in literature and other arts. in exploration and in battle.
A. Mary  B. Henry VIII
C. E1izabeth I  D. Charles II
15.After the Restoration，Parliament passed a series of severe laws called ____________against the Puritans，now known as Nonconformists.
A. Agreement of the People  B. the Petition of the Right
C. the Clarendon Code  D. the Act of Supremacy
16.Which statement about the“Wars of Roses”is NOT true?
A. The king’s power now became supreme.
B. Ordinary people were seriously affected.
C. The wars were waged intermittently for 30 years.
D. From these wars feudalism received its death blow.
1 7.The finest exponents of Elizabethan drama in the English Renaissance were ___________ .
A. Ben Johnson，Christopher Marlowe and Charles Dickens
B. Edmund Spenser, Charles Dickens and William Shakespeare
C. William Shakespeare, Ben Johnson and Charles Dickens
D. William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe and Ben Johnson
18.The Chartist movement was the first nationwide ___________ movement.
A. working class  B. lower middle class
C. upper middle class  D. upper class
19.______________led the U.K. to final victory in the Second World War.
A. Winston Churchill  B. Neville Chamberlain
C. Tony Blair  D. William Gladstone
20.Which statement about the religion in Britain is true?
A. Every person in Britain may change his religion，but with difficulty.
B. Every person may not manifest his faith in teaching，worship and observance.
C. Every person has the right to religious freedom without interference from the community or the State.
D. Churches and religious societies of any kind cannot own property and propagate their beliefs in speeches and writing.
21.In the late 15th century, Christopher Columbus，a(n)___________navigator, led his men to sail across the vast ocean and reached some small islands in the now West Indies.
A. French  B. Spanish
C. Italian  D. English
22.American troops defeated the British at___________ in Northern New York. This was a great turning point of the American War of Independence，leading directly to an alliance between the U.S. and France.
A. Saratoga  B. Trenton
C. Lexington  D. Yorktown
23.In 1787，delegates from the states held a meeting in Philadelphia to make the Articles of Confederation adequate. The meeting came to be called the ___________ .
A. First Continental Congress  B. Second Continental Congress
C. Constitutional Convention  D. Independent Convention
24.Which of the following is NOT among President Theodore Roosevelt’s contributions?
A. The implementation of the Sherman Anti-trust Act.
B. The initiation of large-scale irrigation projects.
C. The adoption of the Hepburn Act of 1906.
D. The passage of the Federal Reserve Act.
25.___________Was the beginning of a long economic depression in the U.S. in 1929.
A. Business bankruptcy  B. Serious unemployment
C. The stock market crash  D. Foreclosures
26.During the Second World War, American wartime objectives were the total destruction of___________ powers and the establishment of a world order.
A. Axis  B. Asian
C. Allied  D. European
27.In 1932，in the depth of the depression，the American people chose ___________ as their next president who promised to get the U.S. out of the depression.
A. Theodore Roosevelt  B. Franklin  D. Roosevelt
C. Woodrow Wilson  D. Herbert  C. Hoover
28.Education was made a function of the state under the ___________Amendment to the US Constitution.
A. Tenth  B. Eleventh
C. Twelfth  D. Thirteenth
29.McCarthyism was a full-scale ___________hysteria in the United States in the 1950s.
A. pro-Nazi  B. anti-Fascist
C. pro-Communist  D. anti-Communist
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