《英语国家社会与文化入门》模拟试题及参考答案
Part one
Fill in the blanks ( 10 points )
1. The full name of the United Kingdom is            .
2. The Good Friday Agreement, known also as             , emerged on 10 April 1998.
3.             , the ancestor of the present queen, Elizabeth II, united England under his rule in 829.
4.             written by Geoffrey Chaucer is often studied by middle school and college students today.
5. The Bonfire Night, which is celebrated in November, sometimes is also called            .
6. Columbus discovered the New World in the year of             .
7. The Three Faiths in the US refer to Protestant,             and Jewish.
8. In 1852, a New England woman named Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote a novel titled            , which intensified the political debate on slavery.
9. 1968 was known in US history as a violent and tragic year in which the great leader of The Civil Rights Movement:             was assassinated.
10. The Grand Canyon is carved away for nearly 6 million years by the             River.
Part two
Read the following unfinished statements or questions carefully. For each unfinished statement or question four suggested answers A, B, C and D are given. Choose the one you think best completes the statement or answers the question:  ( 20 points )
1. Franklin Roosevelt’s program for the depression was called        .
    a. Progressivism        b. laissez faire        c. New Freedom        d. New Deal
2.  The United States did not join the Second World War directly until        in December, 1941.
    a. Great Depression                        b. Pearl Harbor incident
c. the Japanese attack on China            d. the German attack on Poland
3. From 1649 to 1658 England was called a Commonwealth. It was ruled first by Oliver Cromwell as         .
    a. Lord Protector                        b. Lieutenant General
c. Commander of the New Model Army    d. President
4.  Ireland is in the        of Great Britain.
a. east                b. south                c. west                d. north
5.  WASPs referred to        .
a. the mainstream Americans            b. Hispanics
c. Asian-Americans                    d. Blacks
6.  Lincoln's Emancipation proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution formally ended        .
    a. the immigration movement                b. the Civil War
    c. the slave system                        d. the industrialization
7.  About a hundred years ago, as a result of imperialist expansion, Britain ruled         of the world people and of the world’s land area.
    a. one third            b. one fifth            c. one fourth            d. two fifths
8.  The Celt’s religion was        .
    a. Teutonic religion    b. Christianity        c. Druidism            d. Buddhism
9.  The spirit of the Great Charter was the limitation of the powers of         , keeping them within the bounds of the feudal law of the land.
    a. the Archbishop of Canterbury            b. the barons
c. the church                            d. the king
10. The ultimate authority for law-making resides in the         .
a. the House of Lords                    b. the House of Commons
c. the Privy Council                    d. the Shadow Cabinet
11. The English Renaissance was largely         .
a. religious            b. ideological            c. philosophical        d. literary
12. In the Industrial Revolution, changes occurred earliest and quickest in         .
a. hardware            b. textile                c. pottery            d. chemicals
13. The Romans led by Julius Caesar launched their first invasion on Britain in         .
a. 200 B. C.            b. 55 B. C.            c. 55 A. D.            d. 410 A. D
14. The Hundred Years’ War started in         .
a. 1733                b. 1453                c. 1337                d. 1357
15. Civil Rights Movement happened in         .
a. the 1960s            b. the 1950s            c. the 1940s            d. the 1930s
16. The open declaration of the containment policy was made by         on March 12, 1949 in a speech to the joint session of Congress.
  a. President Roosevelt                        b. President Kennedy
  c. General Marshall                            d. President Truman
17. The House of Commons consists of        Members of Parliament.
  a. 651                b. 1,200                c. 1,198                d. 763
18. About half of the Britain’s trade is with         .
a. the United States        b. South-east Asia        c. the EC        d. the Latin America
19. The British recorded history begins with         .
a. the arrival and settlement of Celts            b. the Norman Conquest
  c. Roman invasion                              d. Viking and Danish invasions
20. At the beginning of the First World War, the United States pursued a policy of         .
  a. containment                                b. neutrality
c. pro-Germany partiality                    d. pro-Ally partiality
Part three
Read the following statements carefully and decide if each of them is True or False: ( 20 points )
( ) 1. The Bill of Rights is the term for the first twelve amendments to the Constitution.
( ) 2. The stock market crash in 1929 was the beginning of a long economic depression in the U. S.
( ) 3. George Washington was the first president of the United States.
( ) 4. The system of the parliamentary government of the U.K. is based on a written constitution.
( ) 5. Benjamin Franklin alone drafted the Declaration of Independence, and on July 4, 1776, the Congress adopted the declaration.
( ) 6. Britain was the first country to start the Industrial Revolution which contributed to the establishment of the British Empire.
( ) 7. The word English means “the language that belongs to the Angles.”
( ) 8. The Pennines are known as the “Backbone of England”.
( ) 9. The largest lake in Britain is the Lough Neagh Lake in Wales which covers an area of
397 square kilometers.
( ) 10. Both the First Continental Congress and the Second Continental Congress were held in Boston.
monarchy( ) 11. The American Constitution founded feudalism and introduced checks and balances.
( ) 12. The national church in Scotland is also the Church of England.
( ) 13.Of all the English university Oxford and Cambridge are the most prestigious
( ) 14. The House of Lords is now made up of two kinds of Lords: the Lords Spiritual and the Lords Temporal.
( ) 15. William, Duke of Normandy, founded a strong fleet which first beat the Danes at sea and he became known as “Father of the British Navy.”
( ) 16. Anglo-Saxons in Britain are believed to be ancestors of the Highland Scots, the Irish and the Welsh people.
( ) 17. After Margaret Thatcher was elected Britain’s first ever woman prime minister in 1979, she adopted a new program to cure the “British disease”.
( ) 18. America Vespucci proved that the land discovered by Columbus was not Indian, but
a new continent. As a result, the new continent was named after him and became known as America.
( ) 19. Declaration of Independence was formally adopted by the Continental Congress on July 14, 1776, a day which has been celebrated each year as Independence Day of the United States.
( ) 20. When the news of American victory at Yorktown reached London, the Parliament voted to end the War and peace negotiation began in 1782.

Part four