英语国家概况标准模拟试卷五

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 answer to the question. Write the letter of the answer you have chosen in the corresponding space on the answer sheet. (50 points, I point for each)

1.The British Isles are made up of _A_ large islands and hundreds of small ones.

A.two

B. three

C. four

D.five

2.The Norwegian Vikings and the Danes captured York , an important center of Christianity in _B_

A. 835

B. 867

C. 876

D.878

3.The spirit of the Magna Carta was the limitation of the powers of _D_, 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

4.The nobles force King John to sign _A_ on June 19, 121

5.

A. the Great Charter

B. the People's Charter

C.the Declaration of Btreda

D.the Bill of Rights.

5.In _C_ , Philip II of Spain dispateched the fleet to invade Englad without success.

A. 1585

B.1587

C. 1588

D.1589

6.The Commonwealth of England created by Oliver Cromwell lasted only _B_ years.

A. 10

B.11

C.12

D.13

7.One of Cromwell's first acts after declaring England a Commonwealth, was to crush a rebellion in _D_

A. Scotland

B.Wales

C. England

D.Ireland.

8.The first steam engine was devised by _b_ at the end of the 17th century, and the Scottish inventor James Watt modified and improved the design.

A. Robert Bakewell

B.Thomas Newcomer

C.Jethro Tull

D.Thomas Coke

9.By _A_ Britain had built up a big empire, "on which the sun never set".

A. 1900

B.1910

C. 1920

D.1930

10.The spark of the First World War was struck at Sarajevo on June 28, _B_, when the Austrian Crown Prince Franz Ferdinand was assassinated by a Serbian nationalist.

A. 1913

B. 1914

C. 1915

D.1916

11.At the general election of 1945 Winston Churchill was heavily defeated, becaus_D_.

A. people did not support his postwar policies

B. Britain's old-colonial possessions were left

C. Britain failed to become a full member of the EEC

D. people wanted to forget about the war behind them and as Churchill had symbolized the war effort

12.In 1982, teh Falkland Islands War broke out between Britain and _a_

A. Argentina

B.Brazil

C. Peru

D.Columbia