概况模拟题(八)美国文化

英语考研英美概况模拟题（八）美国文化部分

Culture

I. Multiple Choice

1. In America the academic year lasts nine months, from September to _____, with winter and spring vocations.

A. July

B. June

C. August

2. In elementary schools, courses for children include the following except _____.

A. reading, writing

B. social courses

C. foreign languages

D. sciences, art and music

E. cooking or other manual skills

3. The American teachers’ pay and prestige are _____ in comparison with the general standard of living.

A. high

B. low

C. almost the same

4. There are over _____ universities, colleges and other institutions in the United States.

A. 2,000

B. 2,500

C. 3,000

5. Today more than _____ of all the private colleges have some kind of church connection.

A. 1/3

B. 1/2

C. 1/5

6. The library in _____ was the first private library in the US.

A. Harvard College

B. Yale College

C. College of New Jersey

7. The first public library was founded in 1731 in _____.

A. Boston

B. Philadelphia

C. Chicago

8. At present America has more than _____ free public libraries.

A. 6,000

B. 5,000

C. 7,000

9. VOA Radio Station was established in _____.

A. 1924

B. 1934

C. 1894

10. All the newspapers and magazines in America are _____ owned.

A. publicly

B. privately

C. locally

11. _____ is the winter sport in American schools and colleges.

A. Football

B. Basketball

C. Baseball

12. It was the _____ immigrants in the mid-19th century who introduced skiing into the United States.

A. Scandinavian

B. Dutch

C. French

13. 101 American people won the Nobel Prize after _____.

A. WWI

B. Civil War

C. WWII

14. At the end of WWII the art centre of the world moved from _____ to the new world.

A. Paris

B. London

C. Berlin

15. The famous story _____ helps Washington Irving earn great fame in the literary world.

A. “Rip Van Winkle”

B. “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”

C. “The Adventures of a German Student”

16. _____ is regarded as the father of detective stories.

A. Mark Twain

B. Edgar Allan Poe

C. Herman Melville

17. _____ is the first writer in America to win the Nobel Prize in literature.

A. Sinclair Lewis

B. Saul Bellow

C. Ernest Hemingway

18. Yale University was founded in _____.

A. 1701

B. 1746

C. 1749

19. The greatest American playwright is _____.

A. Arthu r Miller

B. Eugene O’Neil

C. Robert Frost

20. _____ belonged to the Lost Generation.

A. Ernest Hemingway

B. Wilt Whitman

C. Tennessee Williams

21. The most popular sport in America is _____.

A. baseball

B. basketball

C. football

22. After his death a bust of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was placed in the poet’s corner of _____.

A. Westminster Abbey

B. camp of Cambridge University

C. Oxford University

23. For his work, _____ was honoured “The Harlem Laureate”.

A. Robert Frost

B. Langston Hughs

C. Walt Whitman

24. Arthur Miller’s Masterpiece is _____.

A. Death of a Salesman

B. The Crucibe

C. The Price

25. _____ is the earliest university in America.

A. Harvard

B. Yale

C. Rhode Island

26. _____ serves as a bridge which connects secondary schools and universities.

A. Four-year college

B. Two-year college

C. College of arts and science

27. Junior college in America is _____.

A. two years

B. three years

C. four years

D. five years

28. _____ is closely associated with the Rockefeller Interest Group.

A. New York Times

B. Washington Post

C. Los Angeles Times

29. The tuition in a private college is _____.

A. high

B. rather high

C. quite low

D. tolerable

30. In America about _____ of the universities and colleges are private.

A. 1/2

B. 1/3

C. 1/4

D. 1/5

31. Hawthorne is a famous American writer in _____ fiction.

A. romantic

B. realistic

C. Jewish

D. southern

32. The most influential newspapers are the following except _____.

A. New York Times

B. Washington Post

C. Los Angeles Times

D. Wall Street Journal

33. Readers’ Digest is a _____ magazine which is published in 15 languages and 39 editions.

A. weekly

B. monthly

C. biweekly

D. triweekly

34. The major wire services in America are the following except _____.

A. the Associated Press

B. the United Press International

C. the Columbia Broadcasting System

35. From 1901 to 1978, 117 Americans won the Nobel Prize, holding _____ of the world Nobel Prize winners.

A. half

B. one-third

C. one-fourth

36. Blues is a music of strong rhythm, which was originally sung by _____.

A. Negroes

B. Indians

C. Europeans

37. The Father of American literature was _____.