英语国家社会文化知识

1.The first permanent settlement in North America was

established in today’s ______ in 1607.

A. Florida

B. Georgia

C. Virginia

D. Arkansas

2.The following drafted Declaration of Independence

EXCEPT ______.

A. George W ashington

B. Thomas Jefferson

C. John Adams

D. Benjamin Franklin

3.Which of the following is the only branch of the U.S.

Federal government that can make federal laws, and levy federal taxes?

A. The executive.

B. The legislative.

C. The Judicial.

D.

The president.

4.The Three Faiths in the U.S. refer to _______.

A.Protestant, Catholic, Jewish

B.Protestant, Christian, Hindus

C.Puritan, Catholic, Jewish

D.Puritan, Christian, Islam

5.Which of the following novelists does NOT belong to

“the Lost Generation”?

A.F. Scott Fitzgerald.

B.John Dos Passos.

C.Ernest Hemingway.

D.Nathaniel Hawthorne.

6.The following authors are Nobel Prize winners EXCEPT

______.

A.Eugene O’Neill

B.Herman Melville

C.Thomas Stearns Eliot

D.Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

7._______ has the second largest Chinese community in

North America.

A.New York

B.San Francisco

C.Vancouver

D.Montreal

8.________ is the oldest newspaper in Australia.

A.The Sydney Morning Herald

B.The Australian Financial Review

C.The Australian

D.The Mercury

9.Which of the following states or provinces is NOT

located in the Great Lakes?

A.New York.

B.Minnesota.

C.British Columbia.

D.Ontario.

10.Canada's first national park and the world's third

is _________.

A.the Smoky Mountain National Park

B.the Grand Canyon National Park

C.the Grand Teton National Park

D.the Banff National Park

11.Which of the following is NOT considered Ivy

League Schools?

A.Brown University.

B.Cornell University.

C.Stanford University.

D.Princeton University.

12.The international border between the Canadian

province of Ontario and the U.S. state of New York is formed by ____________.

A.Niagara Falls

B.the Rocky Mountains

C.Everglades

D.Appalachian Trail

13.The farthest island in the Florida Keys is Key West,

which is the site of home of novelist _____.

A.Mark Twain

B.William Faulkner

C.Ernest Hemingway

D.Jack London

14.Which of the following does NOT belong to the

white-collar crime?

A.Bribery.

B.Tax evasion.

C.False advertising.

D.Robbery.

15.Which of the following provinces or territories

is next to Alaska, a state of the U.S.?

A.Newfoundland.

B.Nunavut.

C.Quebec.

D.Yukon.

16.W hich of the following newspapers is British?

A.The Guardian.

B.Newsday.

C.Denver Post.

D.Seattle Times.