英美背景知识试题ExercisesinsurveyofBritainandAmerica

Exercises in survey of Britain and America
1. The full name of U.K. is ________________________________________________, it contains of _______________, _____________ and _______________ .
2.English is the official language ,but many people in Wales speak C ( about one in four) while in Scotland, about 80,000 people in the Highland use their own Gaelic language.
3. Britain became industrialized in the _________ and _________ centuries.
4. Britain’s larges t manufacturing industry is _________and __________ industry.
5. The most important airport in Britain is H_____________in London.
6. New S__________ Y____________ is the headquarter of the London police.
7. The T__________ of London was once a fortress and then served as a palace and a prison.
8. B______________ Palace is the London residence for the King and Queen.
9. Lioyd’s is a famous i____________ company, which provides protective measures and information for sea-going ships all over the world.
10. The populations of the U. K. consist of the _________, the ________ , the ________ and Irish .
11. The first inhabitants in Britain were ____________ at about 3000 B. C. .
A. the Normans
B. the Celts
C. the Iberians
D. the Anglo- Saxons
12 The First King of England is _______, who won the overlordship in 829 .
A. John
B. Egbert
C. James I
D. Henry I
13. One of the contribution of the Norman Conquest is ________ .
A. English race
B. final unification of England
C. some peculiarities of dialect in North and East of England
D. Latin alphabet and civilization
14. The peasants in Wat Tyler’s rising had a simple-minded belief in ______.
A. the minister
B. the king
C. Jack Straw
D. the Privy Council
15. Shakespeare’s tragedy _______ is considered as the summit of his art.
A. Macbeth
B. Othello
C. Romeo and Juliet
D. Hamlet
16. Oxford got started in the ____ century and Cambridge in the _____ century.
A. 12th , 13th
B. 11th, 12th
C. 13th, 14th
D. 12th, 14th
17. _____ is regarded as the most English of Games.
A. Rugby
B. Cricket
C. Soccer
D. Golf
18.______ by Thomas Hardy could be regarded as the summit of this realism.
A. The Mayor of Casterbridge
B. Tess of the D’Urberilles
C. Under the Greenwood Tree
D. The return of the Native
19.______ was the first British novelist to win the Nobel Prize.
A. George Eliot
B. Joseph Rudyard Kipling
C. Thomas Hardy
D. Herbert George Wells
20_____ is perhaps the most famous of all the humorous magazines.
A. Punch
B. Private Eye
C. The Times
D. The Sun
21.School Education in America can be divided into three stages : e______________ education,
s____________ education and higher education.
22.Many students can gain a bachelor degree after the completion of the four- year program,. During the four years of study, there are four grades : ___________________, ____________________,
___________and ____________ .
23.The best known of all romantic movies was G_______ W______ t _________ W________ .
24.The A_________ of H____________ F_________ is considered the masterpiece of Mark Twain.
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25.In “ T____ __ S______ L_________” , Hawthrone examines the development and results of evil.
26.In 1926, E________ H____________ published the powerful novel : “ The Sun Also Rises”.
27.The highest academic degree is the D_________ of P___________ .
28.“ The Grapes of Wrath “ by J________ S____________ is regarded as his masterpiece.
29.The American I__________ were the only people who had lived there long before America was
discovered.
30.B______ s______ is someone who is employed to take care of children for a specific length of time.
31.E__________ or Inuits near the North Pole prefer raw meat to roasted meat of sheep and goats.
32.Two kinds of desserts can be found anywhere in America, one is i_____ ________ and other is
a____ ______ .
33.The symbol of Valentine is a picture with a Heart and C_________ armed with bow and arrow.
34.The K__ K____ K____ is a society which was set up by a few ex- soldiers in the states of Tennesse.
35.H______ ________ and h_______________ are greatly enjoyed by all American children.
36. Halloween , a night time festival , is hold mostly by ______ .
A. children
B. adults
C. old people
D. family relatives
37._____ is the most typical and true national holiday of all the holidays observed in the United States of
America.
A. Thanksgiving Day
B. Chr istmas Day
C. Independence Day
D. April Fool ‘s Day
38.The largest freshwater lake in the world is ______ .
A. Lake Ontario
B. Lake Erie
C. Lake Huron
D. Lake Superior
39.The Statue of Liberty stands on the Liberty Island in ____ harbor.
A. Washington
B. New York
C. Boston
D. Florida
40.Detriot is famous for the production of _______ .
A. bamboo
B. automobile
C. timber
D. computer
41.Among the American minorities, ____ are the most numerous.
A. the Indians
B. the Mexicans
C. the Chinese
D. the black people
42.The city’s name “ Philadephia “ means __________ .
A. fishing pot
B. brotherly love
C. philobiblic
D. philogyny
43.The state to which the Mayfllower sailed is _____ .
A. Florida
B. Massachusetts
C. Maine
D. New Jersey
44.The first immigrants came to America from England to escape_____ .
A. war
B. disease
C. imprisonment
D. religious persecution
45.______ is the largest public library in the United States.
A. The Library of Congress
B. The library of Harvard
C. The Library of State
D. Roosevelt Library
46.Theodore Dreiser is regarded as one of the great American realists or naturalists. ___ is his masterpiece.
A. Sister Carrie
B. Jennie Gerhardt
C. The American Tragedy
D. The Financier
47._________ music is perhaps America’s greatest contribution to the world of popular music.
A. Blues
B. Rock & roll
C. Jazz
D. Heavy metal
48._______ is regarded as the father of detective stories.
A. Mark Twain
B. Edgar Allen Poe
C. James Fenimore
D. Washington Irving
49. _____ is a semi-autobiography of Jack London.
A. White Fang
B. The Iron Heal
C. The Call of the Wild
D. Martin Eden
50. The USA is known as a “ Melting Pot” for its ______ .
A. mixture of nationalities
B. mixture of religions
C. mixture of cultures
D. mixture of states
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