英美文化60题

.英美概况及文学Choose the best answer for each of the question below．

1．Which of the following kings was responsible for the complete establishment of the feudal system in England?

A. Edward I

B. Henry II

C. Alfred the Great

D. William the Conqueror D

2. The War of Roses that took place from 1455 to 1485 was fought between ___D___.

A. Britain and France

B. the Parliament and the Crown

C. the working people and the aristocrats

D. two branches of the Plantagenet family

3. Who was the man that led Britain in the crisis of the Second World War?

A. George VI

B. Theodore Roosevelt

C. Neville Chamberlain

D. Sir Winston Churchill D

4. ______, the most popular sport in England as well as in Europe, has its traditional home in England where it was developed in the 19th century.

A. Basketball

B. Tennis

C. Football

D. Baseball C

5. The largest racial and ethnic minority in the U.S. is the ______, which accounts over 12.1% of the population.

A. blacks

B. Asians

C. Indians

D. Hispanics A

6. It is generally agreed that U.S. higher education began with the______.

A. Civil War

B. Independence War

C. founding of Harvard College

D. founding of Princeton University C

7. In his Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway ___A___.

A. expresses the idea of facing defeat courageously

B. shows the basic goodness and wisdom of ordinary people

C. praises the ideas of equality and democracy and the joy of common people

D. describes the sharp contrast of wealth and poverty in Chicago and New York

8. The most important patriotic holiday in the U.S. is ____D__.

A. Halloween

B. Veterans’ Day

C. Thanksgiving Day

D. Independence Day

9. “Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless?---You think wrong!---I have as much soul as you---and full as much heart!---” This part of quotation comes from ______C____.

A. G.

B. Shaw’s Mrs. Warren’s Profession

B. John Galsworthy’s The Man of Property

C. Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre

D. Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice

10. The Restoration of the House of Stuart happened in the year 1660. The monarch who restored was __b____.

A. Charles I

B. Charles II

C. James I

D. James II

11. On their acceptance of __c____, William and Mary were crowned jointly in Westminster Abbey. Thus the age of constitutional monarchy began.

A. the Test Act

B. Magana Carta

C. the Bill of Rights

D. the Petition of Right

12. The English Renaissance was largely literary, and its finest representative dramatists were the following except___b___.

A. Ben Jonson

B. Geoffrey Chaucer

C. William Shakespeare

D. Christopher Marlowe