英美概况（一）19春在线作业1-0005 试卷总分:100 得分:100 一、单选题 (共 20 道试题,共 60 分) 1.There are () national daily newspapers in the UK. A.five B.three C.six D.nine 2.On July 7th, 1937, Japan began an all-o
英美概况（一）19春在线作业1-0005
试卷总分:100 得分:100
一、单选题 (共 20 道试题,共 60 分)
1.There are () national daily newspapers in the UK.
A.five
B.three
C.six
D.nine
2.On July 7th, 1937, Japan began an all-out attack on ().
A.China
B.Taiwan
C.Korea
D.Russia
3.The () is the most famous of all British papers and the oldest at that.
A.Sun
B.Times
C.Mirror
D.Observer
4.The House of () is the oldest part of Parliament. It evolved from a council.
A.Commons
B.People
C.Lords
D.Representatives
5.Buddhism is mainly distributed over Southern and Eastern ().
A.Europe
B.Africa
C.America
D.Asia
6.Britain, under the leadership of (), defeated Germany's attempt to destroy its air force and air defenses in the Battle of Britain and escaped invasion.
A.Winston Churchill
B.Queen Elizabeth
C.the King
D.Wilson Churchill
7.Mrs. Thatcher continued her policies of tight economic control, the () of industry and "dismantling" of the welfare state.
A.nationalization
B.division
C.control
D.privatization
8.The Church of England today is all-inclusive, having the ability to be both Protestant and ().
A.Catholic
B.Buddhist
C.Daoist
D.Tibetan
9.() is the center of the British financial system.
A.The Bank of Ireland
B.The Bank of England
C.The Bank of Britain
D.The English Bank
10.The northern tribes began to come to England from the continent in the middle of the 5th century. They were the Germanic tribes: the Angles, () and Jutes.
A.the Celtics
B.the Vikings
C.the Germans
D.Saxons
11.() bored beneath the English Channel now links the UK with France.
A.The Channel Tunnel
B.the English Tunnel
C.the Ocean Tunnel
D.the French Tunne
12.The world famous universities, Oxford University and () University, are the oldest ones dating from 1167 and 1284.
A.Princeton
B.Harvard
C.Manchester
D.Cambridge
13.The question of Britain's "financial Dunkirk" mainly refers to a number of issues, namely a colossal trade gap, a weakened () base and enormous overseas establishments after the war.
A.agricultural
B.trade
C.military
D.industrial
14.Large areas of land were often hedged or fenced without any warning to the peasants．This process, which started after the Black Death, was known as the () Movement．
A.Closure
B.Enclosure
C.Close
D.Closed
15.The 1990s saw the birth of the famous sheep ()(the first mammal produced from a donor cell taken from an adult rather than from an embryo).
A.Dolly
B.Molly
C.Folly
16.The currency of UK is the () sterling.
A.British
B.English
C.pound
D.Irish
17.The basic point of The People’s Charter is () as Marx has pointed out．
A.people's right
B.voting rights
C.people
D.universal suffrage
18.With the publication of Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, Isaac Newton bound together the whole of nature by one universe force, ().
A.wind
B.rain
C.water
D.gravity
19.Before World War II the industrial structure of the United Kingdom was based largely on () developed in the 19th century.
A.import trade
B.oversees trade
C.export trades
D.internal market
20.The UK is bordered by four seas: to the south by the (), which separates it from continental Europe.
A.English Channel
B.Atlantic Ocean
C.PacificOcean
D.Eastern Sea
二、判断题 (共 20 道试题,共 40 分)
21.Punch is perhaps the most famous of all the magazines.
22.There was no advertising on any BBC program, either sound or television.
23.In 1066 the Normans, French-speaking invaders of Norse origin, conquered England.
24.The importance of Monarch lies in its effect on public attitude and it is also a constant symbol for the whole nation.
25.The Hundred Years’ War refers to a series of wars between France and England throughout the 11th and 12th centuries．
26.Qur’an or Koran is the holy scripture of Islam.
27.Big Ben is the largest clock in Britain and has kept exact time for the nation since May 1859.
28.John Dalton is best known for developing an atomic theory.
29.In England, it is not considered impolite to ask a woman her age.
30.The European Union (EU) was funded on the basis of the European Economic Community.
31.London is made up of two ancient cities that are joined together. They are the City of London and the City of Westminster.
32.The Great Charter was essentially a feudal document．
33.UK does well in applying the theoretical discoveries to practical ends.
34.During the Roman occupation, the English upper classes were not Romanized.
35.Islam was founded in the Arabian Peninsula in the early 6th century
36.Religion is playing an increasingly more important role in the social life of Britain.
37.The United States did not entered the First World War until 1917.
38.Cambridge University is the second oldest university and famous one in the UK.
39.Beowulf is considered the greatest Old English poem.
40.A two-year period beginning in 1946 saw the nationalization of air transport.
